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Was Conservative housing policy really conservative?

Watergate and scandal politics: the rise and fall of the special prosecutor

Watergate and Scandal Politics: the Rise and Fall of the Special Prosecutor This chapter will examine the emergence of the Special Prosecutor in American politics during the Watergate crisis and how as a result the office ...

'We have allowed our decisions to be determined by political considerations': The early Cold War in the International Ski Federation

Dichter, Heather L. (Article)

Like other international federations after the Second World War, the International Ski Federation (FIS) received an application from the Soviet Union and both German states for recognition. As one of the earliest international ...

Web-based questionnaires and the mode effect: an evaluation based on completion rates and data contents of near-identical questionnaires delivered in different modes

Denscombe, Martyn (Article)

Western European housing systems and the impact of the international financial crisis.

van der Heijden, Harry; Dol, K.; Oxley, Michael (Article)

What do we mean by responsibility?: the case of UK housing benefit reform

King, Peter (Article)

What does diversity management mean for the gender equality project in the United Kingdom? Views and experiences of organizational “actors”

Kirton, G.; Greene, A. M. (Article)

What does working in public services mean? Describing the public service ethos in practice

Parker, Steven (Book chapter)

What feedback do students want?

Blair, Alasdair; Curtis, Steven; Goodwin, Mark; Shields, Sam (Article)

The feedback that students receive on their assignments has been subject to a great deal of debate in Universities across the globe. Whereas academics regularly complain that students do not engage with feedback by citing ...

What is 'Good Governance'? A Model of 'Good Governance' for restructuring English Local Government

Jones, Alistair (Conference)

There are many problems when examining the concept of 'good governance'. There are numerous definitions, not all of which are applicable to local government. Often, there is a clear gap in perceptions between the ...

What is a ‘family business’? Defining an elusive concept

Barrett, Rowena; Dunemann, M.; Rajapakser, T.; Walker, B. (Book chapter)

What is the meaning of philosophy for local government officers?

Parker, Steven (Article)

This article reflects on how the philosophical foundations of public administration and the practice of local government can be linked together. Informed by Ongaro, E. (2017. Philosophy and public administration: An ...

What makes a good project manager?

Cheng, M.; Dainty, A. R. J.; Moore, D. R. (Article)

What's so special about small firms? Developing an integrated approach to analysing small firm industrial relations

Barrett, Rowena; Rainnie, A. (Article)

Whatever happened to 'Housing and the environment'?

Brown, Tim J.; Bhatti, Mark (Article)

Whatever Happened to Councillors? Problematising the Deficiency Narrative in English Local Politics

Barnett, N.; Griggs, Steven; Howarth, D. (Article)

Calls for councillors to change are nothing new, even from staunch defenders of local democracy. But one critical question has been sidestepped: Why have councillors been persistently constructed as a ‘problem’ for local ...

Whatever happened to local democracy?

Sweeting, David; Copus, Colin (Article)

'When the Going Gets Tough'...: Recession and the resilience of workplace partnership.

Butler, Peter; Glover, Linda; Tregaskis, Olga (Article)

When unions merge: The making of the UCU.

Carter, Bob (Article)

Where has all the Public Administration gone?

Jones, Alistair (Article)

For many years, concern has been raised about the demise of the teaching of public administration. No longer is the subject taught in its own right as an undergraduate subject in the UK. The emphasis has moved from ...