• 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 ...
• Poststructuralist Discourse Theory: Interests, Identities and Policy Change 

  Howarth, David ; Griggs, Steven (Book chapter)
• Necessity as the Mother of Reinvention: Discourses of Innovation in Local Government 

  Griggs, Steven ; Sullivan, Helen (Book chapter)
• Book Review. Navigando a vista: Governi locali in Europa tra crisi e riforme by Silvia Bolgherini 

  Vampa, Davide (Other)
• Managing and Delivering Gypsy and Traveller Sites: negotiating conflict 

  Richardson, Joanna ; Codona, J. (Book)

  The many symptoms of failure to provide sufficient sites to accommodate Gypsies and Travellers include poor health, anxiety, and an increasing disconnect from the broader community with Gypsies and Travellers, and poorer ...
• Book Review. L’Italia e l’Europa al bivio delle riforme: Le elezioni europee e amministrative del 25 maggio 2014, edited by Marco Valbruzzi and Rinaldo Vignati, Bologna: Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, 2014. 

  Vampa, Davide (Other)
• I partiti e le campagne del NO 

  Vampa, Davide ; Vignati, Rinaldo (Book chapter)

  Analysis of campaign in 2016 Italian referendum.
• Il centrodestra: c’è ma non si vede 

  Vampa, Davide (Book chapter)

  The chapter provides an analysis of electoral results of 2016 local elections in Italy. Focus on centre-right parties.
• The 2015 regional election in Italy: fragmentation and crisis of sub-national representative democracy 

  Vampa, Davide (Article)

  In May 2015, voters in seven Italian regions went to the polls to elect new regional councils and governments. The final election result was apparently similar to that of 2010: centre-left coalitions won in five out of ...

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