Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time

Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended focus on misuse of her agency. This article argues that presents particularly powerful example need disentangle structure agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon work Stephen Skowronek, it sets out framework evaluating in ‘political time’. then used show how conditions circumstances which May governed limited feasibility, increased costs, compromised effectiveness actions office. We argue this confirms was victim as much own