Results 21 to 30 of about 22,891 (322)

The Big Society and the Conjunction of Crises: Justifying Welfare Reform and Undermining Social Housing [PDF]

, 2014
The idea of the “Big Society” can be seen as culmination of a long-standing debate about the regulation of welfare. Situating the concept within governance theory, the article considers how the UK coalition government has justified a radical ...
Atkinson R., Bevir M., Blond P., Boles N., Chhotray V., CLG (Communities and Local Government), Conservative Party, Cruikshank B., CSJ (Centre for Social Justice), CSJ (Commission for Social Justice), Davies J., Davies J., Dean M., Dillon D., Durose C., DWP (Department of Work and Pensions), Etzioni A., Flinders M., Flint J., Foucault M., Gamble A., Giddens A., Gross J., Harris J., HM Government, Home Office, Huntingdon S., Hutton W., Huxham C., Ipsos MORI, Jenkins S., Jessop B., Jessop B., Jessop B., John P., Jones O., Lowndes V., Massey D., Mulliner E., Murray C., Norman J., Oakeshott M., Pawson H., Rennard C., Rhodes R., Schattschneider E., Stoker G., Stoker G., Taylor M., Taylor M., Thaler R., Tony Manzi, Travers T.   +52 more
core   +2 more sources

Problematizing Choice: Responsible consumers and sceptical citizens [PDF]

, 2007
About the book: Governance, Consumers and Citizens is the first book to bring together a study of governance with consumption, examining the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas ...
A MacGillivray, A Sayer, A Warde, B Davies, B Vliet Van, C Hines, C Needham, C Smart, D Boyle, D Doane, D Miller, Doane, E Shove, Food Ethics Council, G Bridge, G Bridge, J Collins, M Bevir, M Bevir, M Bevir, M Corrado, M Hajer, M Holdsworth, M Wetherell, M Wetherell, N Rose, P Miller, R Christie, R Cowe, R Goodin, R Reeves, S Wilkinson, S Williams, Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, T Jackson, W Gordon, Z Bauman   +36 more
core   +1 more source

The Rise of Welfare Service States – Conceptual challenges of an ambiguous welfare settlement and the need for new policy research

Social Work and Society, 2019
Welfare states are changing. They differ in the way they provide their citizenry with social rights, material resources and support. Contemporary transformations of European welfare states, however, have - apart from significant differences - a common ...
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Hans-Uwe Otto, Arne Wohlfarth, Holger Ziegler   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Evaluating megaprojects: from the “iron triangle” to network mapping [PDF]

, 2014
Evaluation literature has paid relatively little attention to the specific needs of evaluating large, complex industrial and infrastructure projects, often called ‘megaprojects’.
Altshuler A, Argyris C, Bornstein L, Cantarelli CC, Dryzek JS, Gibbons M, Kickert WJM, Loorbach D, Nowotny H, Osland O, Renault M, Sen A, Stark D, Wachs M   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Legacies of mistrust

PlaNext, 2021
National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms haslong rested on theories based on the experiences
Gabriella Y. Carolini, Sarra Lynn Hess
doaj  

Newness Against the Grain: Democratic emergence in organisational and professional practice [PDF]

, 2019
What is the nature of democratic innovation in a performative culture? The purpose of this chapter is to help answer this question by giving conceptual substance to the notion of democratic emergence as a specific kind of innovation in the context of ...
Roberts, Amanda, Woods, Glenys J., Woods, Philip   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Ethics of rationing health care services [PDF]

BMJ, 1995
EDITOR,—Unlike Raanon Gillon,1 I find myself agreeing with the King's Fund when it advocates the formation of a Oregon-like commission modelled on the Nuffield Council of Bioethics to start the process of rationing of specific services.2 Gillon doubts whether it is morally safe to use, as he sees it, “populist solutions in distributive justice such as
openaire   +2 more sources

Adapting to informality: multistory housing driven by a co-productive process and the People’s Plans in Metro Manila, Philippines [PDF]

, 2020
Faced with an ever-increasing demand for land in Metro Manila, as well as with the domination of standardised low-income housing models, the local civil society and the urban-poor sector embarked on the development of an alternative shelter approach in ...
Galuszka, Jakub
core   +1 more source

The poetic is political….and other notes on engaged scholarship [PDF]

, 2009
Instrumental and objectivist logics maintain a hegemonic place in Western scholarship, reasoning skills powerfully equipped to address certain dilemmas even as they may obscure other ways of knowing.
Dutta, Mohan J., Ellingson, Laura L., Harter, Lynn M., Norander, S.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus [PDF]

, 2015
Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary city”; (
Jonas, Andrew E.G.
core   +1 more source