Rod Rhodes provides a thorough depiction of the Conservative prime ministerial courts of David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson.

Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government at the University of Southampton, Director of the Centre for Political Ethnography, and the author or editor of over 45 books. His most recent publication is Comparing Cabinets (with D. Grube and P. Weller, Oxford University Press 2021). He previously served as editor-in-chief of Public Administration and currently edits the Political Ethnography book series for Manchester University Press. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in both Australia and the UK. In 2015 the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) awarded him their biennial Lifetime Achievement Award for his 'outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work'.

• Preface and Acknowledgements


• List of figures and tables


• List of Abbreviations


• 1: In the Land of Would-Be Monarchs


• 2: Court Politics: From Metaphor to Theory


• 3: The Chillaxed Court: David Cameron's Court in an Age of Austerity, 2010--2016


• 4: Old ma May's Court: All Around, There is Treachery


• 5: Boris Johnson's Court, 2019--2022: Crisis, Which Crisis?


• 6: Comparing Courts


• Appendix 1: Thematic analysis codebook


• Appendix 2: Sources


• Appendix 3: Chronology


• Appendix 4: Dramatis Personae


• References


• Index