Politics publications: Recent submissions
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Commercial Actors and the Governing of Education: the case of academy school sponsors in England.
(SYMPOSIUM JOURNALS Ltd, 2013)This article explores the ways in which commercial actors are operating in state education by focusing on the case study of England’s academies policy. First of all the discussion outlines the development of academies over ... -
Comparison as Curriculum Governance: dynamics of the European-wide governance technology of comparison within England’s National Curriculum reforms
(SYMPOSIUM JOURNALS Ltd, 2012)The curriculum is a governance technology of knowledge production and is also itself governed by complex dynamics within European education policy space. This article focuses on how the curriculum is governed by comparative ... -
Exclusion and Informality: The Praetorian Politics of Land Management in Cairo, Egypt
(International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2013-02-25)Since the late 1970s, Western aid agencies, including the US Agency for International Development (AID) and the World Bank, sought to assist the Egyptian government in planning its capital, Cairo. The aim was to foster an ... -
The Euro-Outsiders
(2005-3)This concluding article reviews the lessons drawn from the respective case studies of the special issue and returns to the central assumptions of the politics of asymmetry outlined in the Introduction by Miles. A comparative ... -
The European Central Bank: The Bank that rules Europe?
(Oxford University Press, 2009)The power of the European Central Bank (ECB) is rooted in its independence established in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. This power is reinforced though the bank’s monetary policy credibility—achieved through meeting its ... -
Rhetorical divergence; Real convergence? The economic policy debate in the 2002 French presidential and legislative elections
(Ashgate, 2004)Why, despite considerable convergence in the economic policy preferences and policies of the mainstream Left (principally Socialist Party) and Right, did economic policy remained a major subject of debate during the 2002 ... -
Running an enlarged euro-zone – reforming the European Central Bank: Efficiency, legitimacy and national economic interest
(2007-12)This article analyses the December 2002 reform of decision making in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council in terms of national economy size reflected in the bargaining power of the ECB Governing Council ... -
Economic Interests and the European Union: A Catalyst for European Integration or a Hindrance?
(2008-02)The influence of economic interest groups on national policy-making on European Union-level policy and European integration seems to be case specific and circumstantial. Certain economic interests (for example, pension ... -
Greening the Internal Market in a Difficult Economic Climate
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)2008 was a year of turmoil in the financial markets, rapid economic slowdown and the start of recession in several European economies, bank bailouts and growing calls for protectionism. We might expect the principal ... -
Bank of France: The challenge of escaping politicization
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Europeanization since 1993—the independence of the Bank of France in 1994 and the transfer of monetary policy powers to the European Central Bank (ECB) in 1999—had a clear and direct impact on the power and roles of the ... -
France in the Euro-Zone: the management of paradoxical interests
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This chapter examines substantive reforms to, respectively, the French polity, politics, and policies in terms both of this domestic dialectic between conservative liberalism and interventionism and of Europeanization. EMU ... -
Thomas Pogge’s Global Resources Dividend: a critique and an alternative
(Sage, 2005-11)Pogge’s proposal for a Global Resources Dividend (GRD) has been criticised because its likely effects would be less predictable than Pogge supposes and could even be counterproductive to the main aim of relieving poverty. ... -
Post-liberation Politics: African Perspectives Examining the political legacy of struggle
(2006-05-08)This article examines the politics of African states in which insurgencies or liberation movements have taken control of the government. It examines the impact on governance of reforms introduced by these post-liberation ... -
Rocking the Boat? Church NGOs and Democratization in Zimbabwe
(Oxford University Press, 2002)Historically, relations between church and state in independent Zimbabwe have tended to be cooperative and on-confrontational. However, in 1997 the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) initiated the National Constitutional ... -
Going it alone: opposition politics in Zimbabwe
(AfricaFiles, 1997-09)Say "opposition party" in Zimbabwe and people either laugh or cry. There has been little opposition in Parliament since the 1987 ZANU-ZAPU Unity Accord. This alliance gave ZANU-PF virtually complete control of Zimbabwean ... -
THE STATE OF NGOS IN ZIMBABWE: HONEYMOON OVER?
(AfricaFiles, 1997-06)After independence, many of Zimbabwe's NGOs benefited from their close links with the government. Even now most would probably describe their relationship with the state as cooperative. It is still de rigeur, certainly, ... -
Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, Politics and the State in Eritrea
(2004-06-17)The paper examines the politics of the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS), University students, and National Service. It proposes that these cases provide a useful perspective from which to think ... -
Born powerful? Post-Liberation Politics in Eritrea and Zimbabwe
(2004-06-17)The paper is a comparative analysis of post-liberation politics in Zimbabwe and Eritrea. It proposes that insufficient attention has been paid to the impact of negotiated transitions and inherited state forms in analysing ... -
NGOs and State in Zimbabwe: implications for civil society theory
(PODSU, Stockholm University, 2001)This chapter is based on research on Zimbabwean NGOs in the early-mid 1990s. It examines two NGO coalitions that attempted to mobilize Zimbabwean NGOs in advocacy activities. It criticizes conceptions of NGO-state relations ...
