• The meaning of corruption: testing the coherence and adequacy of corruption definitions 

  Rose, Jonathan (Article)

  Corruption is one of the most important issues facing the world today, yet despite its importance there remains significant confusion about exactly what corruption is. A multitude of definitions have been advanced, but ...
• Enticing case study or celebrated anomaly? Policy learning from the Cuban health system 

  Baggott, Rob ; Lambie, George (Article)

  Abstract Cuba is regarded as having achieved very good health outcomes for its level of economic development. It has adopted policies and programmes that focus on prevention, universal access to healthcare, a strong ...
• Governing in and Against Austerity: International Lessons from Eight Cities 

  Davies, Jonathan S. (Technical Report)

  This report, mainly for non-academic users, summarises the interim conclusions from our ESRC study of austerity governance in eight cities. It also provides an overview of the eight case study cities: Athens, Baltimore, ...
• Introduction: Powerhouse politics and economic development in the North 

  Giovannini, Arianna ; Berry, Craig (Book chapter)

  Why the North, why now and what is new? This chapter establishes the scholarly and real-world contexts within which the pursuit of economic development in the North should be studied. It discusses the Northern Powerhouse ...
• A Better Place. 

  Giovannini, Arianna ; Berry, Craig (Book chapter)

  This chapter situates the book’s analyses of the Northern Powerhouse, devolution and Northern economic development more generally within an emerging ‘politics of place’. It argues furthermore that a political economy of ...
• The Uneven Governance of Devolution Deals in Yorkshire: Opportunities, Challenges and Local (Di)Visions 

  Giovannini, Arianna (Book chapter)

  The Devolution Deals and Northern Powerhouse agenda has been presented by George Osborne as the making of a ‘ devolution revolution’ in the North of England. But while the signing of the ‘ Devo Manc’ agreement ...
• Developing England's North: The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse 

  Giovannini, Arianna ; Berry, Craig (Book)

  This book brings together a unique group of scholars to explore the politics of local economic development in Northern England. Socio-economic conditions in the North –and its future prospects – have ...
• Engaging students as co-producers: a critical reflection on the policy commission model 

  Blair, Alasdair ; Griggs, Steven ; Mackillop, Eleanor (Article)

  The teaching of political science has a tendency towards traditional classroom based learning environments. This article describes the development of an innovative model of student learning that takes place outside of the ...
• Rethinking Politics 

  Parsons, Stephen (Book chapter)

  The consequences of the financial crisis erupting in 2008 offer a variety of possibilities for rethinking politics. First, the liberal-democratic perspective underpinning most contemporary western societies assumes that ...
• Interrogating Urban Crisis: Cities in the Governance and Contestation of Austerity 

  Bayirbag, M. ; Davies, Jonathan S. ; Munch, S. (Article)

  The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna ...
• “Close but no Cigar”: the Measurement of Corruption 

  Heywood, Paul ; Rose, Jonathan (Article)

  The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing world leaders, ...
• Seeking asylum from poverty: Contesting the refugee/migrant paradigm 

  Whitham, Ben (Book chapter)

  Media coverage of people trying to enter the EU from the Middle East, South-East Asia and Africa has, over the last year, made much of the difference between ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum seekers’ on the one hand, and ‘economic ...
• Not what they want but what they need: Teaching politics to journalism students 

  Clark, Torrin ; Jones, Alistair (Article)

  There is an issue around getting students engaged in subject matter about which they may have little interest. Often, such subject matter is essential to their studies. The module Essential Public Affairs is such a concern ...
• Characterizing and evaluating rival discourses of the ‘sustainable city’: Towards a politics of pragmatic adversarialism 

  Griggs, Steven ; Hall, Stephen ; Howarth, David ; Seigneuret, Natacha (Article)

  For many, shifting economic and social contexts have created the conditions for a radical reappraisal of the orthodox image of the ‘sustainable city’. However, in assessing such potentialities, there is insufficient knowledge ...
• Post-structuralism, social movements and citizen politics 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David (Book chapter)
• Critical Discourse Theory 

  Howarth, David ; Griggs, Steven (Book chapter)
• Discourse Theory 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David (Book chapter)
• Practices of Freedom 

  Griggs, Steven ; Norval, Aletta ; Wagenaar, Hendrik (Book)
• Discourse, Explanation and Critique 

  Howarth, David ; Glynos,Jason ; Griggs, Steven (Article)

  It is often alleged that post-structuralist discourse theory suffers from a methodological and a normative deficit, making it unable to either explain or criticize and evaluate the policy practices and regimes it investigates. ...
• Situating the Local in the Neoliberalisation and Transformation of Urban Governance Transformation 

  Blanco, Ismael ; Griggs, Steven ; Sullivan, Helen (Article)

  The local state, and more broadly the logic of the local, remains divorced from accounts of urban governance. Addressing this omission, this article examines how a focus on the local opens up new avenues of enquiry in urban ...

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