Finlayson, Alan (2025) Supplementing the tropes: Poststructuralist discourse theory and rhetorical political analysis. Journal of Language and Politics, 24 (1). 50–68. ISSN 1569-2159
Topinka, Robert, Osborne-Carey, Cassian and Finlayson, Alan (2024) Playing with the news on Reddit: The politics game on r/The_Donald. International Political Sociology, 18 (2). ISSN 1749-5679
Finlayson, Alan (2023) Overlapping methodologies? Rhetoric, English Studies and the social world. English, 72 (278). 96–101. ISSN 0013-8215
Finlayson, Alan (2023) This is not a critique: Reactionary digital politics in the age of ideological entrepreneurship. Media Theory, 7 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN 2557-826X
Finlayson, Alan, Jarvis, Lee and Lister, Michael (2023) COVID-19 and ‘the public’: UK government discourse and the British Political Tradition. Contemporary Politics, 29 (3). pp. 339-356. ISSN 1356-9775
Finlayson, Alan, Kelly, Annie, Topinka, Rob and Little, Ben (2022) Digital culture wars: understanding the far right’s online powerbase. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 81. pp. 43-64. ISSN 1362-6620
Finlayson, Alan (2022) YouTube and political ideologies: Technology, populism and rhetorical form. Political Studies, 70 (1). pp. 62-80. ISSN 0032-3217
Finlayson, Alan (2021) Neoliberalism, the Alt-Right and the Intellectual Dark Web. Theory, Culture and Society, 38 (6). pp. 167-190. ISSN 0263-2764
Topinka, Robert, Finlayson, Alan and Osborne-Carey, Cassian (2021) The trap of tracking: Digital methods, surveillance, and the far right. Surveillance and Society, 19 (3). pp. 384-388. ISSN 1477-7487
Finlayson, Alan (2019) The Metaphysics of Brexit. Third Text, 32 (5-6). pp. 598-604. ISSN 0952-8822
Finlayson, Alan (2019) Rethinking political communication. The Political Quarterly, 90 (S1). pp. 77-91. ISSN 0032-3179
Finlayson, Alan (2017) Interpretation and social explanation. Political Studies Review, 15 (2). pp. 210-216. ISSN 1478-9299
Finlayson, Alan (2017) “What is the point of Parliamentary debate?” Deliberation, oratory, opposition and spectacle in the British House of Commons. Redescriptions, 20 (1). pp. 11-31. ISSN 2308-0906
Finlayson, Alan (2016) The present crisis and the questions we must ask. Renewal, 24 (3). pp. 5-14. ISSN 0968-252X
Atkins, Judi and Finlayson, Alan (2016) ‘As Shakespeare so memorably said…’: Quotation, rhetoric, and the performance of politics. Political Studies, 64 (1). pp. 164-181. ISSN 0032-3217
Finlayson, Alan (2016) Obama's Rhetoric. Juncture, 23 (3). pp. 165-169. ISSN 2050-5876
Finlayson, Alan (2015) From theorising realism to the reality of theory:A response to Adrian Little. Contemporary Political Theory, 14 (3). pp. 295-305. ISSN 1470-8914
Finlayson, Alan (2015) Labour's New Identity Politics. Renewal, 23 (1-2).
Finlayson, Alan (2014) The virtù of invention: Bonnie Honig’s exemplars of agonistic politics. Contemporary Political Theory, 13 (2). pp. 183-193. ISSN 1470-8914
Finlayson, Alan (2014) Proving, pleasing and persuading? Rhetoric in contemporary British Politics. The Political Quarterly, 85 (4). 428–436. ISSN 0032-3179
Finlayson, Alan (2013) Critique and political argumentation. Political Studies Review, 11 (3). pp. 313-320. ISSN 1478-9299
Finlayson, Alan (2013) Preface. Political Studies Review, 11 (3). pp. 311-312. ISSN 1478-9299
Finlayson, Alan (2013) From neoliberalism to pluralism: A response to Mulheirn and Jacobs. The Political Quarterly, 84 (2). 211–217. ISSN 0032-3179
Atkins, Judi and Finlayson, Alan (2013) ‘... A 40-year-old black man made the point to me’: Everyday knowledge and the performance of leadership in contemporary British politics. Political Studies, 61 (1). 161–177. ISSN 1467-9248
Finlayson, Alan (2013) From blue to green and everything in between: Ideational change and left political economy after New Labour. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 15 (1). pp. 70-88. ISSN 1369-1481
Finlayson, Alan (2012) Rhetoric and the political theory of ideologies. Political Studies, 60 (4). pp. 751-767. ISSN 0032-3217
Finlayson, Alan (2011) Cameron, culture and the creative class: The Big Society and the post-bureaucratic age. The Political Quarterly, 82 (Supplement s1). pp. 35-47. ISSN 0032-3179
Finlayson, Alan and Frazer, Elizabeth (2011) Fictions of Sovereignty: Shakespeare, Theatre and the Representation of Rule. Parliamentary Affairs, 64 (2). pp. 233-247. ISSN 1460-2482
Finlayson, Alan (2011) 'What will yours grow into?' Governmentality, governance, social science and the Child Trust Fund. Policy & Politics, 39 (4). pp. 547-566. ISSN 1470-8442
Finlayson, Alan (2011) Back to Class: Lessons for the Labour Party. Political Quarterly, 81 (s1). S165-S176.
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Financialisation, financial literacy and asset-based welfare. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 11 (3). pp. 400-421. ISSN 1467-856X
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Planning people: The ideology and rationality of New Labour. Planning Practice and Research, 24 (1). pp. 11-23. ISSN 0269-7459
Finlayson, Alan (2008) Characterizing new labour:The case of the Child Trust Fund. Public Administration, 86 (1). pp. 95-110. ISSN 0033-3298
Chambers, Samuel A. and Finlayson, Alan (2008) Ann Coulter and the problem of pluralism: From values to politics. Borderlands, 7 (1).
Finlayson, Alan (2008) Characterising New Labour: The case of the Child Trust Fund. Public Administration, 86 (1). pp. 95-110. ISSN 1467-9299
Finlayson, Alan (2008) From Economic Revolution to Social Revolution: An Interview with Oliver Letwin. Soundings, 40. pp. 112-122.
Finlayson, Alan and Martin, James (2008) "It ain't what you say...": British political studies and the analysis of speech and rhetoric. British Politics, 3 (4). pp. 445-464. ISSN 1746-918X
Chambers, Samuel A. and Finlayson, Alan (2007) “Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly” May 11-12, 2007:Hosted by: The Department of Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, United Kingdom. Political Theory, 35 (2). p. 239. ISSN 0090-5917
Finlayson, Alan (2007) Making sense of David Cameron. Public Policy Research, 4 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1744-540X
Finlayson, Alan (2007) From beliefs to arguments: Interpretive methodology and rhetorical political analysis. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 9 (4). pp. 545-563. ISSN 1467-856X
Finlayson, Alan (2006) "What's the Problem?" Rhetoric and Problem-Setting in Northern Ireland. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9 (4). pp. 541-548. ISSN 1369-8230
Finlayson, Alan (2006) For the Sake of Argument: re-imagining political communication. Soundings. pp. 34-43.
Finlayson, Alan (2005) Forward not Back: The Labour Party Manifesto, 2005. Renewal, 13 (3).
Finlayson, Alan (2005) How to make the argument for Europe. Renewal, 13 (1). pp. 76-84.
Dowding, Keith, Finlayson, Alan, Hay, Colin and Rhodes, Rod (2004) Interpretive Methodology and Political Science: A Roundtable. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 6 (2). pp. 129-164. ISSN 1467-856X
Finlayson, Alan (2004) Political science, political ideas and rhetoric. Economy and Society, 33 (4). pp. 528-549. ISSN 0308-5147
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Squaring the Circle: New Labour and the New Ignorance Economy. Mediactive, 1 (1). pp. 25-36.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) The Meaning of Modernisation. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 23. pp. 62-83. ISSN 1741-0797
Finlayson, A. (2002) Elements of the Blairite image of leadership. Parliamentary Affairs, 55 (3). pp. 586-599. ISSN 0031-2290
Finlayson, Alan (2002) Elements of the Blairite Style of Leadership. Parliamentary Affairs, 55 (3). pp. 586-599. ISSN 1460-2482
Finlayson, Alan (2001) Philo and Miller's Metaphysical Media Studies. Media, Culture & Society, 23 (5). pp. 679-687. ISSN 1460-3675
Finlayson, Alan (2001) The problem of the political interview. Political Quarterly, 72 (3). pp. 335-345.
Finlayson, Alan (2001) Culture, Politics and Cultural Politics in Northern Ireland. New Formations, 43. pp. 87-102.
Finlayson, Alan and Hughes, Eamonn (2000) Advertising for Peace:The state and political advertising in Northern Ireland, 1988‐1998. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 20 (3). pp. 397-412. ISSN 0143-9685
Finlayson, Alan (1999) Third Way Theory. The Political Quarterly, 70 (3). pp. 271-279. ISSN 1467-923X
Finlayson, Alan (1999) Loyalist political identity after the Peace. Capital and Class, 23 (3). pp. 47-75. ISSN 0309-8168
Finlayson, Alan (1999) New Labour and the Third Way: Re-Visioning the Economic. Renewal, 7 (2). pp. 42-51.
Finlayson, Alan (1998) Re-Conceptualising the Political in Northern Ireland. Irish Political Studies, 13. pp. 115-122. ISSN 0790-7184
Finlayson, Alan (1998) Psychology, psychoanalysis and theories of nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 4 (2). pp. 145-162. ISSN 1469-8129
Finlayson, Alan (1998) Ideology Discourse and Nationalism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 3 (1). pp. 99-118. ISSN 1356-9317
Finlayson, Alan (1998) Tony Blair and the jargon of modernisation. Soundings, 1998 (10). pp. 11-27.
Finlayson, Alan (1998) Reconceptualising the political in northern Ireland:A response to arthur aughey. Irish Political Studies, 13 (1). pp. 115-122. ISSN 0790-7184
Finlayson, Alan (1997) The problem of culture in Northern Ireland: A critique of the Cultural Traditions Group of the Community Relations Council. Irish Review, 20. pp. 76-88.
Finlayson, Alan (1997) The broadcast media in Northern Ireland. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 17 (4). pp. 477-480. ISSN 0143-9685
Finlayson, Alan and Martin, James (1997) Political Studies and Cultural Studies. Politics, 17 (3). pp. 183-189. ISSN 1467-9256
Finlayson, Alan (1996) Nationalism as Ideological Interpellation: The case of Ulster Loyalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19 (1). pp. 88-112. ISSN 0141-9870
Gordon, John and Finlayson, Alan (2024) ‘Tip me one of your ballads, why then we should drop into poetry’:Curricular framing of protest songs as a resource for citizenship education. In: Society, Politics and Education in Uncertain Times. Taylor and Francis. (In Press)
Finlayson, Alan and Topinka, Robert (2024) 'We Have to Save the Children’:Ethos, Digital Affordances, and the Call to Adventure in Reactionary Digital Politics. In: Ethos, Technology and AI in Contemporary Society. Routledge. ISBN 9781032688510
Finlayson, Alan (2022) Brexit, YouTube and the Populist Rhetorical Ethos. In: Populist Rhetorics. Rhetoric, Politics and Society . Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 81-106. ISBN 978-3-030-87350-9
Finlayson, Alan (2021) Performing Political Ideologies. In: The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford University Press, pp. 471-483. ISBN 9780190863456
Finlayson, Alan (2018) “Dancing with doxa”: A “Rhetorical Political Analysis” of David Cameron’s sense of Britishness. In: Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture . John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9789027201935
Finlayson, Alan (2018) "dancing with doxa":A "rhetorical Political Analysis" of David Cameron's sense of Britishness. In: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 59-77.
Finlayson, Alan (2015) Cultural Studies. In: Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science. Routledge, pp. 113-125. ISBN 9780415657143
Finlayson, Alan (2015) What we argue about when we argue about tax. In: Values Added. The Fabian Society, pp. 4-7. ISBN 978-0-7163-7016-1
Finlayson, Alan (2015) Becoming a Democratic Audience. In: The Grammar of Politics and Performance. Interventions . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-71650-5
Finlayson, Alan (2014) Introduction: Rhetoric and the British Way of Politics. In: Rhetoric in British Politics and Society. Rhetoric, Politics and Society . Palgrave Macmillan, UK. ISBN 9781137325525
Finlayson, Alan (2014) Nationalism. In: Political Ideologies: An Introduction (4th edition). Routledge, London. ISBN ISBN-10: 0415618177
Finlayson, Alan (2014) The Peculiar Character of Political Speech. In: Back to Earth: Reconnecting People and Politics. The Fabian Society, London, pp. 24-34. ISBN 978-0-7163-4122-2
Finlayson, Alan (2013) ‘Ideology and Political Rhetoric’. In: The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations . Oxford University Press, pp. 197-213. ISBN 978-0-19-958597-7
Finlayson, Alan (2013) Sexuality and nationality:Gendered discourses of Ireland. In: Politics of sexuality. Taylor and Francis, pp. 91-101. ISBN 9780415169530
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Introduction:Becoming plural. In: Democracy and Pluralism. Routledge, pp. 1-19. ISBN 0203873645
Finlayson, Alan (2009) The Broken Society versus the Social Recession. In: After the Crash: Reinventing the Left in Britain. Lawrence and Wishart, London, pp. 27-37.
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Assessing Blair's Legacy. In: British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 11-17.
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Response to Kavanagh and Tonge. In: British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 30-31.
Finlayson, Alan (2009) Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly. In: Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly. Routledge, London, pp. 1-19.
Finlayson, Alan (2009) 'Think Tradition'. In: What Next for Labour? Ideas for the progressive left, a collection of essays. Demos, London, pp. 33-38.
Finlayson, Alan (2008) Rhetorical Radical Democracy. In: The Politics of Radical Democracy. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 13-32.
Finlayson, Alan (2008) Politics as an Argument about the Common Good. In: Building a Citizen Society. Lawrence and Wishart, London, pp. 157-165.
Finlayson, Alan and Martin, James (2006) Local government and the loss of sovereignty. In: Localopolis: Governance and citizenship in the 21st century. Solace (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) Foundation Imprint, pp. 29-31.
Finlayson, Alan (2006) Making Labour Safe: Globalisation and the Aftermath of the Social Democratic Retreat. In: After Blair: Politics after the New Labour decade. Lawrence and Wishart, London, pp. 37-47.
Finlayson, Alan and Martin, James (2006) Poststructuralism. In: The State: Theories and Issues. Palgrave, London, pp. 155-171.
Finlayson, Alan and Taylor, Richard (2004) Reading Titanic Politically. In: The Titanic in Myth and Memory. I B Tauris. ISBN 9781850434320
Finlayson, Alan (2003) General Introduction. In: Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-25.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Section Introductions. In: Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 29-483.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Glossary. In: Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 614-668.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Conservativism. In: Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 154-197.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Nationalism. In: Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd edition). Routledge, London, pp. 97-117.
Finlayson, Alan (2002) New Labour: The Culture of Government and the Government of Culture. In: Cultural Capitalism: Politics after New Labour. Lawrence and Wishart, London, pp. 177-202.
Finlayson, Alan (2002) On the Subject of New Labour. In: The Political Subject: Essays on the Self from Art, Politics and Science. Lawrence and Wishart, London, pp. 137-159.
Finlayson, Alan (2002) The Horizon of Community. In: Politics and Post-Structuralism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 161-175.
Finlayson, Alan and Valentine, Jeremy (2002) Introduction. In: Politics and Post-Structuralism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-20.
Finlayson, Alan (2001) Imagined Communities. In: Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 281-290.
Finlayson, Alan (1999) Culture. In: Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction. Open University Press, Milton Keynes, pp. 131-154.
Finlayson, Alan (1999) Language. In: Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction. Open University Press, Milton Keynes, pp. 47-68.
Finlayson, Alan (1998) The Discourse of Nation and the Discourse of Sexuality. In: The Politics of Sexuality. Routledge, London, pp. 91-101.
Finlayson, Alan (1997) Discourse and Contemporary Loyalist Identity. In: Who are the People? Unionism Protestantism and Loyalism in the Late Twentieth Century. Pluto Press, London, pp. 72-94.
Eccleshall, Robert, Finlayson, Alan, Geoghegan, Vincent, Kenny, Michael, Lloyd, Moya, MacKenzie, Iain and Wilford, Rick (2003) Political ideologies:An introduction: Third edition. Routledge. ISBN 0203409094
Eccleshall, Robert, Finlayson, Alan, Geoghegan, Vincent, Kenny, Michael, Lloyd, Moya, MacKenzie, Iain and Wilford, Rick (2003) Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd edition). Routledge, London.
Finlayson, Alan (2003) Making Sense of New Labour. Lawrence and Wishart, London.
Ashe, Fidelma, Finlayson, Alan, Lloyd, Moya, MacKenzie, Iain, Martin, James and O'Neill, Shane (1998) Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction. Open University Press.