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International Politics: An Introductory Guide

International survey methodology: experiences from the Cranet survey

Atterbury, S.; Mahoney, C.; Tregaskis, Olga (Book chapter)

Interpretive analysis as an evaluative tool: The case of Mustard.UK.Com, a high-growth small business programme.

Patton, D.; Marlow, Susan, 1956-; Ram, M.; Sanghera, K. (Article)

Interrogating Networks: Towards an Agnostic Perspective on Governance Research

Davies, Jonathan S.; Spicer, Andre (Article)

Networks have rapidly become the dominant trope in governance theory and practice. While scholarship highlights important benefits, there has been insufficient systematic interrogation of the potential pathologies in ...

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 ...

Introduction.

Copus, Colin (Article)

Introduction: American multinationals and the cross-national management of employment relations.

Ferner, A. M.; Almond, Phil (Book chapter)

Introduction: At the intersection of entrepreneurship and human resource management

Barrett, Rowena; Mayson, S. (Book chapter)

Introduction: beyond elections: representation circuits and political intermediation.

Zaremberg, Gisela; Gurza Lavalle, Adrián; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria (Book chapter)

Introduction: multinationals and the multilevel politics of cross-national diffusion.

Ferner, A. M.; Quintanilla, J.; Sánchez-Runde, C. (Book chapter)

Introduction: Obama's Washington.

Harrington, Clodagh (Book chapter)

Introduction: Powerhouse politics and economic development in the North

Giovannini, Arianna; Berry, Craig (Book chapter)

Why the North, why now and what is new? This chapter establishes the scholarly and real-world contexts within which the pursuit of economic development in the North should be studied. It discusses the Northern Powerhouse ...

Introduction: Who Were the Oxford School and Why Did They Matter?

Ackers, Peter (Article)

An Investigation into Gender Imbalance in Academic Careers

Bradshaw, Chris (Book)

Despite a range of equality and diversity legislation since the 1960s, commentators and researchers have concluded that women in the Higher Education sector do not receive fair treatment in relation to access to promotion ...

Is peer feedback an effective approach for creating dialogue in Politics?

Blair, Alasdair; Curtis, Steven; McGinty, Sam (Article)

Feedback practices have recently come under increasing scrutiny, most notably because of the impact of the National Student Survey. This article draws on the work of a National Teaching Fellowship Scheme funded project ...

Is the European Schoolnet an Online European Community for teachers? a valuable professional resource?

Younie, Sarah; Leask, Marilyn (Article)

Islands of practice: Conflict and a lack of 'Community' in situated learning.

Macpherson, Allan; Clark, Brenton (Article)

'It's all hands-on, even for management': Managerial work in the UK cafe sector

Lloyd, C.; Payne, Jonathan (Article)

"It's just the nature of the job at the end of the day": pay and job quality in mass market call centres

Lloyd, C.; Mason, G.; Osbourne, M.; Payne, Jonathan (Book chapter)

The Italian Lega Nord

Vampa, Davide; McDonnell, Duncan (Book chapter)

In this chapter we provide an overview of the Lega Nord’s history to date and show that – at least according to the criteria used by Kenneth Janda (1980) – it can now be considered an ‘institutionalized’ party. We explore ...