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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Dec 31 2011
Voodoo polling, Clegg’s ratings recover amongst Liberal Democrats, and Miliband the managerialist: round up of political blogs for 24 – 30 December
Leave a commentTweet Chris Gilson takes a look at the week in political blogging. The parties On Christmas Eve, Political Scrapbook says that the police are urging the Crown Prosecution Service to bring charges of speeding and perverting the course of justice … Continue reading
Posted by: December 31, 2011
Tagged with: Alex Salmond, Chris Huhne, Ed Miliband, Labour, Nick Clegg, polling devolution, Scotland, tax
Dec 31 2011
Book Review: How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland’s Earthquake Election
Leave a commentTweet Why was the Irish 2011 election considered ’truly seismic’ but at the same time regarded as mattering so little? An important and revealing contribution, How Ireland Voted 2011 covers the dramatic decline of Fianna Fail, the rise of Fine Gail and Labour and the left … Continue reading
Posted by: December 31, 2011
Tagged with: election, Fianna Fail, Fine Gail, Ireland, seats, votes
Dec 31 2011
Book Review: British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years
Leave a commentTweet Matthew Partridge finds that Oliver Daddow and Jamie Gaskarth’s strong collection of essays on Blair and Brown’s foreign policy highs and lows is strong enough to justify its place on reading-lists, covering the Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War on Terror. British … Continue reading
Posted by: December 31, 2011
Tagged with: afghanistan, America, Blair doctrine, Britain, devolution, foreign policy, France, Gaddafi, globalisation, Gordon Brown, government, human rights, Humanitarian Intervention, Iraq, Lisbon treaty, military, New Labour, policy-makers, Tony Blair, War on Terror
Dec 31 2011
Book Review: The Ombudsman Enterprise and Administrative Justice
Leave a commentTweet Buck, Kirkham and Thompson provide a rich, detailed picture of the current state of the ombudsmen enterprise in the UK public sector finds Jane Tinkler. The Ombudsman Enterprise and Administrative Justice. Trevor Buck, Richard Kirkham, and Brian Thompson. Ashgate. December 2010. Ombudsmen have … Continue reading
Posted by: December 31, 2011
Tagged with: audit, citizen as consumer, Citizens, complaints, consumers, information, justice, New Public Management, NPM, Ombudsman, public sector, Westminster
Dec 30 2011
Slumps, riots and springs: how we covered 2011
Leave a commentTweet Avery Hancock and Paul Rainford review British Politics and Policy’s coverage of 2011’s major political developments. Economy, Recovery and Growth The economic recovery continued its downward trend in 2011, with repeated warnings of a double dip recession if the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 30, 2011
Tagged with: Arab Spring, august riots, AV referendum, coalition, David Cameron, economy, Euro, Europe, foreign policy, Labour, news international, phone hacking
Dec 29 2011
Employer contributions have a significant impact on encouraging pension savings. Policy-makers seeking ways to increase contribution rates and take-up should focus on this lever.
2 CommentsTweet With an ageing population, the question of how we will pay for our retirement is a pressing one. Using new survey data, James Lloyd of the Strategic Society Centre finds that just over half of the workforce is saving … Continue reading
Posted by: December 29, 2011
Tagged with: contributions, employer contributions, pension policy, pension saving, Pensions, Retirement, savings, workers
Dec 28 2011
If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? Paying teachers 10 per cent more results in 5-10 per cent higher pupil performance.
24 CommentsTweet It is no secret that higher teacher quality translates into higher educational outcomes, but how can the UK attract the best and brightest to the profession? Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez examine the enormous variation in teachers’ pay across … Continue reading
Posted by: December 28, 2011
Tagged with: Education, pupil performance, schools, secondary schools, teachers, teachers' pay
Dec 28 2011
History tells us that we can get out of the current economic slump if government guarantees low interest rates, rising prices, and provides a more sensible planning system.
Leave a commentTweet With interest rates already very low, levels of public debt very high, there seems very little room for government to improve the current economic situation. Tim Leunig looks to history to provide a recipe for growth, arguing that, as was … Continue reading
Posted by: December 28, 2011
Tagged with: Bank of England, economy, employment, growth, housing, inflation, interest rates, planning policy
