Department of Politics, People & Place
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Looking back and looking forward: 20 years of European Political Science serving the political science community in Europe and beyond
(Article)Anniversaries are milestone events. They invite those involved to celebrate their achievements, but also reflect about the past, present and future. The 20th anniversary of European Political Science (EPS) is such a landmark. ... -
Levelling up
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In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis
(Book chapter)The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the problematic nature of centre-local relations in the UK. This is particularly true in England, where the centre maintains a strong hold over the subnational governance. The aim of this ... -
Factors affecting environmental practice adoption at small European airports: an investigation
(Article)The majority of the world’s 3,759 commercial airports handle under 5 million passengers a year and these small airports rarely employ practices to address their environmental externalities. The aim of this research is to ... -
Negotiating the Delivery of Gypsy & Traveller Sites through Local Planning
(Technical Report)The 20 page report “Negotiating the delivery of Gypsy &Traveller sites through local planning” has found no substantive evidence to support the assertions made by some developers that the inclusion of pitches in housing ... -
European airline response to the COVID-19 pandemic – contraction, consolidation and future considerations for airline business and management
(Article)The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions and fall in consumer demand led to a dramatic and unprecedented reduction in passenger flights across Europe. As borders closed, national Governments advised ... -
Innovation Explained: Inside the Black Box
(Technical Report)While it has often be said that we have entered an era of innovation, to what extent are we seeing accelerated globalisation of products and services and the emergence of new fields of technology, rather than innovation ... -
Redefining City Governance: Towards Rapid Response Open Planning
(Article)Global crises such as COVID-19 produce a variety of responses, locally in towns and cities, and nationally from governments. The UK’s approach to ‘lock-down’, ‘testing and tracing’, and ‘social distancing’, as well as its ... -
Governance, participation and hegemony: governing Cananea and the Río Sonora Region
(Article)By building upon critical debates on ‘network governance’ in policy-making, while finding complementarities with debates on corporate social responsibility in Mexican mining, the paper argues that in the (mis)management ... -
Between governance‐driven democratisation and democracy‐driven governance: Explaining changes in participatory governance in the case of Barcelona
(Article)Scholars of participatory democracy have long noted dynamic interactions and transformations within and between political spaces that can foster (de)democratisation. At the heart of this dynamism lie (a) the processes ... -
Genealogy as an Approach to Political Theory
(Conference)The aim of this paper is to present an increasing need for genealogy as an approach within Political Theory, as a response to the growing impact discourse surrounding PhD funding. I begin by establishing this paper’s ... -
What is legitimate to study? In pursuit of the normative in normative theory
(Conference)When both academic critique and funding criteria essentially say to political theory, ‘what is the point?’, anxiety creeps into the heart of every normative theorist and agonising self-reflection ensues; the study of the ... -
The Concept of the Canon: Genealogy and its Contribution to Normative Arguments
(Conference)This work is very much in progress, with emerging ideas that I hope to develop into a full paper. Nevertheless, it is not without a position: the aim is to show how genealogy can be absorbed into normative theory, by ... -
What is Legitimate to Study? In Pursuit of the ‘normative’ in Normative theory
(Conference)When both academic critique and funding criteria essentially say to political theory, ‘what is the point?’, anxiety creeps into the heart of every normative theorist and agonising self-reflection ensues; the study of the ... -
How to Be Good at Telling Others to Be Good: A Case for Epilogue Storytelling
(Conference)The first part of this article looks at the methods we use in ideal theory to achieve a principles-first approach – idealisations, thought experiments and reflective equilibrium - and the criticisms this brings from nonideal ... -
A Story of the Homeless and Anti-Social Behaviour
(Conference)If I were to say that the architecture in our public spaces is ‘really speaking to us’, you would be forgiven for thinking this is a piece about the aesthetics of our cities. In some ways in fact, it is, but not in any ... -
An Anti-homeless Public Space
(Other)In this post, Dr Simon Stevens exposes the strategies used by local authorities and managers of pseudo-public spaces in English cities, to disperse, deter and dehumanise homeless residents. Seen through the eyes of a ... -
Nigerian Budgetary Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Shrinking Fiscal Space: Financial Sustainability, Employment, Social Inequality and Business Implications
(Article)Purpose: This article aims to explore the Nigerian government’s budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the economic and social implications of the pandemic response. Design/methodology/approach: Our ... -
Racial capitalism, Islamophobia and austerity
(Article)Explorations of Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism predominantly focus on issues of security policy, and media representations, set against the backdrop of the global “War on Terror”. This scholarship explores the racialisation ...
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