• 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 ...
• Are we learning from the old? A case study of Welsh local government restructuring 

  Jones, Alistair (Conference)

  Local Government in Wales has undergone restructuring in the 1970s, the 1990s, and is currently undergoing the process again. In each round of restructuring, the same arguments appear: economies of scale, rationalisation, ...
• Parish Councils and Councillors: a resurgence in the most local tier of government in England? 

  Jones, Alistair (Conference)

  In the UK, local authorities are already the largest across Europe. There are moves in England and Wales to make some of these local authorities even larger. This is being carried out through voluntary mergers as well ...
• Are we doing them a dis-service? Preparing students to study overseas: a case study of Chinese students and British Culture. 

  Jones, Alistair (Conference)

  There are a number of issues around this approach. Firstly there is the issue of content. What content should be taught to these students? There are a range of topics that could be covered, but these may be constrained ...
• Teaching Citizenship? 

  Jones, Alistair (Article)

  Citizenship appears to be one of the new buzz words, not just in education, but covering many aspects of our lives. Typing the word ‘citizenship’ into the Google search engine, for example, results in over 1.7 million ...
• The Gender Dynamics of Trade 

  Pflaeger, Zoe (Book chapter)
• Gender and Development 

  Pflaeger, Zoe (Book chapter)
• Hard currency, solidarity and soft power? The motives, implications and lessons of Cuban Health Internationalism 

  Baggott, Rob ; Lambie, George (Article)

  This article explores Cuba’s health assistance and support for other countries. It explores the rationale and motivations for Cuba’s internationalism in health. It then details the various aspects of its health interventions, ...
• Place and Identity: The Performance of Home 

  Richardson, Joanna (Book)
• "No regionalism please, we are Leghisti!". The transformation of the Italian Lega Nord under the leadership of Matteo Salvini 

  Giovannini, Arianna ; Albertazzi, Daniele ; Seddone, Antonella (Article)

  Whilst the Lega Nord has traditionally been defined as a regionalist populist party, since Matteo Salvini became its leader in 2013 it has undergone a process of profound ideological transformation. This article assesses ...
• The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security 

  Whitham, Ben ; Ali, Nadya (Article)

  A succession of media scandals and policy arguments in the UK in recent years has been integral to the construction of a so-called Muslim Problem. Media and political attention paid to Muslims in British public life, across ...
• The Logics and Limits of 'Collaborative Governance' in Nantes: Myth, Ideology and the Politics of New Urban Regimes 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David ; Feandeiro, A. (Article)

  This article characterizes and evaluates a paradigm case of urban collaborative governance: the so-called ‘Nantes model’. Stressing its positioning in the particular tradition of French politics, and drawing on poststructuralist ...
• The Jewel of the Crown: Co-optive capacity and participation during austerity in Cardiff and San Sebastian-Donostia 

  Guarneros-Meza, Valeria ; Telleria, Imanol ; Blas, Asier ; Pill, Madeleine (Article)

  By comparing qualitatively Cardiff and San Sebastián-Donostia (Donostia), the paper argues that local governments’ capacity to co-opt provides a relevant approach to understanding changes in citizen participation under ...
• Local Government Size and Political Efficacy: Do Citizen Panels Make a Difference? 

  Andrews, Rhys ; Entwistle, Tom ; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria (Article)

  Democratic theorists suggest that the size of local government is an important influence on citizens’ political efficacy. Typically, it is argued that small is beautiful for efficacy, because residents in areas served by ...
• Governance: Mature Paradigm or Chicken Soup for European Public Management? 

  Davies, Jonathan S. ; Chorianopoulos, I. (Article)

  Sørensen and Torfing assert that “governance” has become a highly influential paradigm, able to influence the conduct of governing and thus contribute to improving our economies and societies. In responding, we take issue ...
• Managing Austerity: Insights into Spatial Governance from an English City 

  Davies, Jonathan S. (Article)

  The research discussed below is part of an eight case international study looking at how austerity is governed and resisted, conducted in Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Melbourne (Dandenong), Montreal ...
• The Airports Commission, The Dilemmas of Political Leadership and the Third Runway at Heathrow Airport 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David (Article)

  This article assesses the character, role and outcomes of the Airports Commission. Analysing its workings from September 2012, it evaluates the final recommendations and then charts the subsequent public reception. The ...
• So Close, But So Far? The Davies Commission and the Contested Politics of UK Airport Expansion 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David (Article)

  Aviation expansion and the construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport is firmly back on the political agenda. Yet, the stark fact remains that a growing list of British governments has been unable to engineer a ...
• The Politics of Estonia's Offshore Wind Energy Programme: Discourse, Power and Marine Spatial Planning 

  Tafon, R. ; Howarth, David ; Griggs, Steven (Article)

  There is growing recognition that Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an inherently political process marked by a clash of discourses, power and conflicts of interest. Yet there are very few attempts to make sense of and ...
• Regulating the regulators: the rise of the United Kingdom Professional Standards Authority 

  Allsop, Judith; ; Jones, Kathryn L. (Book chapter)

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