John Howard, constitutive politics and overlapping consensus

John William Tate ()
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John William Tate: The University of Newcastle, School of Humanities and Social Science

No 2019-03, Newcastle Business School Discussion Paper Series: Research on the Frontiers of Knowledge from The University of Newcastle, Australia

Abstract: All political leaders in liberal democracies engage in “constitutive politics†. However there is a qualitative difference between a constitutive politics centered on liberal values and one centered on conservative or populist commitments. This paper seeks to explore John Howard’s political identity during his period as Australian Prime Minister by examining the extent to which his constitutive politics took on liberal, conservative or populist dimensions. The paper will show that although Howard embraced, at various times, all three ideologies, with all of the tensions and conflicts involved, his political identity cannot be reduced to any one of them, nor to an underlying electoral pragmatism. In this respect, John Howard’s political identity is far more complex than has ordinarily been assumed.

Keywords: John Howard; constitutive politics; political identity; electoral pragmatism; Australian politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2019
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