Political Advice

Book excerpt: 1 Introduction Jacqueline Rose and Colin Kidd -- 2.What would Pericles Do?-And Why It Still Matters Esther Eidinow -- 3.Obliquus ductus: Indirect Political Advice in the Renaissance Joanne Paul -- 4.How Not to Do It: Poets and Counsel, Thomas Wyatt to Geoffrey Hill Colin Burrow -- 5.William Davison and the perils of advice in Elizabethan England Jacqueline Rose -- 6.Parliament counsels the Crown: advice, rhetoric and party politics since the seventeenth century Paul Seaward -- 7.Adam Smith and Political Advice: Three Smithian Moments Jesse Norman -- 8.The Central Policy Review Staff: a useful model? William Waldegrave -- 9.Astrology and Advice at the Reagan Court Colin Kidd -- 10.Expertise and advice in two referendum campaigns Jim Gallagher -- 11.Revisiting the Eagle and the Lion: Politics, policy and the JCPOA Ali Ansari -- 12.'You've got to ask the right expert': Political ideologies of advice-giving Marius Ostrowski -- 13.Effective Political Advice in an Age of Populism Martin Donnelly -- 14.The Future of Political Advice: The Problem of Cybersecurity: Lucas Kello -- 15.Afterword Robin Butler.