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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Feb 28 2011
The Home Office’s new online Crime Map is a step forward in providing the public with information, but it ignores the role of the police, oversimplifies vastly different types of offences and belies crime’s downward trend in recent years.
Leave a commentTweet Crime mapping is not new in the UK – so does the new Home Office’s online crime map go one better than those that went before? Daniel Bear looks at the motivation behind the next iteration of local crime … Continue reading
Posted by: February 28, 2011
Tagged with: crime, crime mapping, government, Home Office, police, UK, uk government, uk politics
Feb 27 2011
Book Review: Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
Leave a commentTweet Childhood obesity has become a global health issue of epidemic proportions. In Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles, Stephen Kline incorporates the underlying issue of how capitalist societies deal with lifestyle risks that citizens become exposed to in the free market economy. … Continue reading
Posted by: February 27, 2011
Tagged with: behavioural policy, campaign, government, health, media
Feb 27 2011
Book Review: The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World
Leave a commentTweet In The Great Brain Race, Ben Wildavsky presents an account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education … Continue reading
Posted by: February 27, 2011
Tagged with: Education, Education Policy, globalisation, Higher Education, immigration, online education
Feb 27 2011
Book Review: Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
Leave a commentTweet Amy Watson finds plenty of strong arguments for a gendered approach to understanding political imbalances in Gender, Politics and Institutions. This collection of essays travels across the world, carefully mixing theory and analysis from gender and institutional studies, with very promising results. … Continue reading
Posted by: February 27, 2011
Tagged with: coalition government, Europe, feminism, political science, quotas, uk government
Feb 26 2011
Cameron’s arms deals, public finance surprises and the extent of NHS cuts: political blog round up for 14 – 25 February 2011
Leave a commentTweet Amy Mollett, Avery Hancock and Paul Rainford take a look at the week in political blogging. Amy Mollett, Avery Hancock and Paul Rainford take a look at the week in political blogging. Events in the Middle East As tensions … Continue reading
Posted by: February 26, 2011
Tagged with: budget cuts, David Cameron, defence, democracy, public spending, uk government
Feb 25 2011
From ‘Plan B’ to ‘Plan V’: what the UK economy needs to reboot and rebalance growth
2 CommentsTweet With the threat of stagflation and interest rate rises, the current economic climate shows little sign of improvement in the near future. John Van Reenen finds that the government’s severe austerity programme, with its very pessimistic view of future … Continue reading
Posted by: February 25, 2011
Tagged with: austerity, Budget 2011, CEP, coalition, CSR, cuts, economic growth, Economic Policy, GDP, growth, inflation, Osborne, politics, power, public spending
Feb 24 2011
The huge success of Fairtrade products in the UK represents a grass-roots response to market failure, but the ethical label must not be afraid to ask for more policy changes that would benefit all
2 CommentsTweet As Fairtrade Fortnight launches in the UK on the 28th February, the ethical brand continues to enjoy political support and the backing of millions of consumers. But there is much more that Fairtrade is yet to achieve, argues Deborah … Continue reading
Posted by: February 24, 2011
Tagged with: Fairtrade, government, grassroots, market failure, politics, power, trade
Feb 23 2011
The people in Sudan have spoken: now the UK should back the new nation with both trade and aid
1 CommentTweet With Sudan due to split into two nations this July, both will need support from the international community to assist in their transitions. In light of the coalition’s recent freeze in the UK’s aid budget, some have suggested increased … Continue reading
Posted by: February 23, 2011
Tagged with: DfID, Foreign Office, politics, Sudan, trade, UK, uk government
