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In Whose Interest is the Public Interest?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current government has implemented changes to the planning system in ‘the public interest’ and planners more generally aim to make decisions in ‘the public interest’. Yet, this concept is hard to define, and it has been much reflected on since the adoption of land use planning in 1947.
Kelvin MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
wiley   +1 more source

Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic bordering: domestic politicisation, European coordination, and national border closures in the COVID-19 crisis. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Eur Public Policy
Freudlsperger C   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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