The Scottish National Party and the Challenge of Political Representation
, 2011 First paragraph of chapter: During their lifetime, political parties face a range of strategic dilemmas.Some involve the dilemma between vote, office and policy success(Strøm 1990; De Winter 1998: 238-40). Some revolve around the exactnature of party goals, policies or coalition strategies.
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Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this feature by providing the first study of unsuccessful patent applications in England during the first industrial revolution.
Stephen D. Billington, Joe Lane
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Quantile regression of tobacco tax pass-through in the UK 2017-2021: how have manufacturers passed through tax changes for different tobacco products in small retailers? Analysis at the national level and by neighbourhood of deprivation. [PDF]
Tob ControlWilson LB +7 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Continuity or Change: Occupational Health Policies of Key Organizations in Great Britain After the Major COVID Waves 2020-2022. [PDF]
New SolutWatterson A, Beck M.
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Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
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RSV-related hospital admissions in a subset of hospitals in England and Scotland: A real-world study (2018-2023). [PDF]
Hum Vaccin ImmunotherReeves RM +9 more
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Patently peculiar: Patents and innovation in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We study the patent system of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–30), a post‐Napoleonic state which brought together an early industrializing region that subsequently became Belgium with a later‐industrializing one comprising what is now the Netherlands.
Homer Wagenaar, Christopher L. Colvin
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Usability testing of a digital tool to support behavioural activation for depression with young people aged 12 to 18. [PDF]
Front Child Adolesc PsychiatryTindall L +5 more
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United Kingdom is an asymmetric polity, in part because it is a multi‐national state brought together by conquest and voluntary union. The 1998 devolution settlements for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland were conceived and implemented in the context of UK membership of the European Union (EU).
David Heald
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