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Where has all the youth crime gone? youth justice in an age of austerity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Youth justice under the Coalition government in England and Wales has been characterised by considerable gains — falling youth crime, increased diversion and substantial reductions in child imprisonment — that would generally be associated with a ...
Allen   +43 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring the Role of Ideology and Sectoral Power for Trade Unions' Social Partnership Choices in Liberal Market Economies

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholars have often debated the outcomes of partnership strategy, they have rarely studied the conditions in which trade unions opt to pursue partnerships, especially social partnerships in liberal market economies (‘LMEs’). By comparing five trade unions' social partnership responses in the US‐American and English healthcare systems ...
Nick Krachler
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Think for Ourselves and the Work of Sociology

open access: yesSociologica
In this wide-ranging conversation with Ilaria Pitti, Patricia Hill Collins retraces the interplay between her personal biography and intellectual trajectory. She reflects on the evolution of intersectionality — its promise, risks of depoliticisation, and
Ilaria Pitti, Patricia Hill Collins
doaj   +1 more source

From boredom to dependence: The medicalisation of the Swedish gambling problem

open access: yesNordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2016
AIMS - The aim of this study is to investigate the medicalising of gambling problems by comparing the political discussions on gambling in the Swedish Parliament in the early 1970s and the early 2010s.
Edman Johan, Berndt Josefine
doaj   +1 more source

Hostilities faced by people on the frontlines of sexual and reproductive health and rights: a scoping review. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health, 2023
Boydell V   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya [PDF]

open access: yesDisasters
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Rogei D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

European Green Deal and Geopoliticisation of Trade: A Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis of EU Agricultural Trade Policy

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on Laclau and Mouffe's poststructuralist discourse theory, this article critically examines the von der Leyen Commission's agricultural trade policy under the European Green Deal. It elucidates the shift from a dominant neoliberal trade logic to open strategic autonomy, positioning agricultural trade as a foreign policy instrument. The
Mari Carlson
wiley   +1 more source

Agencies, ministers and civil servants in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Huge variations exist in the relationships between politicians and agenciesin Britain, from very frequent contact in a politicised atmosphere to thecomplete absence of a direct relationship at all.
Hogwood, Brian W.   +2 more
core  

‘I Don't Want Another Five Years of “The Only Thing We Talk About Is Brexit”’: The Dynamics of EU (De)politicisation in Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2016 Brexit referendum was a watershed moment for the politicisation of the European Union (EU) in the United Kingdom. Much has been written about the politicising effects of the referendum, along with the Leave result's subsequent contestation in the media as well as in national and European election cycles.
Anne‐Marie Houde, Louis Stockwell
wiley   +1 more source

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