Browsing Department of Politics, People & Place by Title

Call centres, the networked economy and the value chain

Rainnie, A.; Barrett, Rowena; Burgess, John; Connell, J. (Article)

Can dialogue help to improve feedback on examinations?

Blair, Alasdair; Alun Wyburn-Powell; Mark Goodwin; Sam Shields (Article)

Student dissatisfaction with feedback is widely acknowledged in Higher Education. This has resulted in investigations that have offered suggestions for improving student satisfaction levels. This article examines one area ...

Can informal social relations help explain workers' reactions to managerial interventions? Some case evidence from a study of quality management.

Glover, Linda (Article)

Can’t Foxes be Hedgehogs too? Reply to Clarence N Stone.

Davies, Jonathan S. (Article)

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Centralization.

Ferner, A. M.; Gunnigle, P.; Quintanilla, J.; Wächter, H.; Edwards, Tony (Book chapter)

Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony

Davies, Jonathan S. (Book)

This entry comprises the preliminaries and introduction to my book, to be published by Policy Press in September 2011, titled Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony. The following text appears on the back ...

Challenging identity hierarchies: consociational power-sharing and gendered political representation

Thomson, Jennifer; Kennedy, Ronan; Pierson, Claire (Article)

Changing approaches to policy making in housing renewal.

Brown, Tim J.; Turkington, R. (Book chapter)

The changing context of regional governance of FDI in England

Almond, Phil; Ferner, A. M.; Tregaskis, Olga (Article)

Changing job roles in the Norwegian and UK fitness industry - in search of national institutional effects.

Lloyd, C.; Payne, Jonathan (Article)

Changing local governance, changing citizens.

Durose, Catherine; Greasley, Stephen; Richardson, Liz (Book)

The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a long standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have sought to empower, activate ...

The changing meaning of skill: still contested, still important

Payne, Jonathan (Book chapter)

The changing role of local politics in Britain

Leach, Steve (Book)

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 ...

Choice and the end of social housing

King, Peter (Book)

Choice, Empowerment and Personalisation - Taking Forward Public Services in a Recession

Brown, Tim J.; Yates, N. (Book chapter)

Citizen participation and changing governance: cases of devolution in England

Giovannini, Arianna; Prosser, B.; Renwick, A.; Sandford, M.; Flinders, M.; Jennings, W.; Spada, P.; Stoker, G.; Ghose, K. (Article)

The current process of devolving powers within England constitutes a significant change of governance arrangements. This process of devolution has been widely criticised for including insufficient consultation. This paper ...

Citizen participation in English local government: does London take the lead?

Copus, Colin (Book chapter)

Citizen participation in local government: the influence of the political party group.

Copus, Colin (Article)

Citizen security in Mexico: Examining municipal bureaucracy from the view of the intermediation-representation debate

Guarneros-Meza, Valeria (Book chapter)

The chapter examines citizen security in a south-eastern municipality in Mexico through the role of municipal front-line bureaucrats. The argument highlights that the degree of discretion of bureaucrats, the unequal power ...