Department of Politics, People & Place
Recent Submissions
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EU aggregate demand as a way out of crisis? Engaging the post-Keynesian critique
(Article)Post-Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone Crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively ... -
The Structure of Attitudes Towards Shale Gas Extraction in the United Kingdom
(Article)Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, ... -
Principles of Festival Management
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Commodification and ‘the commons’: The politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis
(Article)In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding for essential ... -
Towards a new era of regionalism in Italy? A comparative perspective on autonomy referendums
(Article)Referendums on regional autonomy are rare events in European politics but are likely to produce important political and institutional effects. This article provides the first systematic account of the autonomy referendums ... -
Descrifrando el desorden: instituciones participativas y conflictos en torno a megaproyectos en México
(Article)This article offers a map of «participatory institutions» (PI) that appear in conflict scenarios related to mining, hydrocarbons, wind and hydroelectric energy megaprojects in Mexico. The authors offer evidence of the ... -
El “socialismo cotidiano” de los trabajadores textiles chilenos: Trazando una politica radical a traves de la prensa obrera, 1936-1973
(Article)A diferencia de las experiencias en otros países, en Chile, luego de 1968, un gobierno socialista llegó al poder con el triunfo electoral de Salvador Allende y la Unidad Popular, respaldado por movimientos obreros que ... -
The Contested Definition of Corruption
(Book chapter)Corruption is both a significant substantive problem for governance and an important political allegation. Nonetheless, judgements about whether an individual is corrupt or not inherently rely upon an understanding of the ... -
Workplace Occupation and the Possibilities of Popular Power in Chile and Argentina, 1972-6
(Article)The recent wave of occupations has had a transformative effect on radical politics, but as Michael Hardt (2015) has noted, many have been restricted in their social and spatial expansion. Reflecting on these challenges, ... -
Obama's Washington: Political Leadership in a Partisan Era
(Book)This volume examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. Topics range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, ... -
SNAP: the Sound of the Food Chain Breaking
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Never Mind the Details: Here's the Tea Party'
(Book chapter)This chapter examines the rise of the Tea Party movement in the US during the early days of the Obama administration. The contradictions, conflicts and energy of this mixed bag of conservatives, libertarians and evangelicals ... -
What is the meaning of philosophy for local government officers?
(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 ... -
Uniting the University around the UN SDGs - a UK case study
(Article)Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe are increasingly engaging with the United Nations’ 2030 agenda expressed through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were agreed in September 2015. During ... -
Whatever Happened to Councillors? Problematising the Deficiency Narrative in English Local Politics
(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
(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?
(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.
(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?
(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
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