a column by Alexandra L. Cermeño and Kerstin Enflo for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Urban growth is crucial for modernisation, and the wave of new towns in China since the 1980s is one example of a strategy employed by policymakers to encourage the process.
This column analyses the long-run success of a town foundation policy in Sweden between 1570 and 1810. While the ‘artificially’ created towns failed to grow in the short term, they eventually began to grow and thrive, and today are as resilient as their medieval counterparts.
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Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Women and the Modernization of British Trade Unions: Meanings, Dimensions and the Challenge of Change
an article by Mark Stuart and Jennifer Tomlinson (University of Leeds, UK) and Miguel Martinez Lucio (Manchester Business School, UK) published in The Journal of Industrial Relations volume 55 Number 1 (February 2013)
Abstract
This article examines the position of women within the modernisation processes of British trade unions, based on the first analysis to date of projects funded under the British government’s Trade Union Modernisation Fund.
The focus of the article on the Trade Union Modernisation Fund provides unique insights into the relatively under-explored ‘inner workings’ of unions, and allows an examination of the types of modernisation projects that may advance women’s interests within unions and the types of challenges such initiatives face.
The projects suggested that reflection and learning around women’s interests and equality agendas were taking place, along with a degree of mainstreaming and embedding activity within union structures.
However, projects had to face not only deeply entrenched constraints, but also a new set of challenges raised by the process of modernisation itself.
Abstract
This article examines the position of women within the modernisation processes of British trade unions, based on the first analysis to date of projects funded under the British government’s Trade Union Modernisation Fund.
The focus of the article on the Trade Union Modernisation Fund provides unique insights into the relatively under-explored ‘inner workings’ of unions, and allows an examination of the types of modernisation projects that may advance women’s interests within unions and the types of challenges such initiatives face.
The projects suggested that reflection and learning around women’s interests and equality agendas were taking place, along with a degree of mainstreaming and embedding activity within union structures.
However, projects had to face not only deeply entrenched constraints, but also a new set of challenges raised by the process of modernisation itself.
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The UK Coalition government: Constructing public service reform narratives
an article by Chris Painter (Birmingham City University, UK) published in Public Policy and Administration Volume 28 Number 1 (January 2013)
Abstract
Narrative stories offer insight into political agency and constructed reality. They are also part of the armoury for maintaining political ascendancy.
The UK Cameron–Clegg Coalition government’s public service reform narrative juxtaposed its open, transparent and decentralised approach with the top-down configuration of institutional power attributed to New Labour. The more complex reality of public service reform is exemplified particularly from the criminal justice arena.
From a structuralist perspective, the Coalition’s reform trajectory has been related to emergent realities of networked governance. But here too more ambiguous influences were at work with reform again proving more problematic than anticipated.
Full text of an earlier version of this article (PDF 20pp)
Abstract
Narrative stories offer insight into political agency and constructed reality. They are also part of the armoury for maintaining political ascendancy.
The UK Cameron–Clegg Coalition government’s public service reform narrative juxtaposed its open, transparent and decentralised approach with the top-down configuration of institutional power attributed to New Labour. The more complex reality of public service reform is exemplified particularly from the criminal justice arena.
From a structuralist perspective, the Coalition’s reform trajectory has been related to emergent realities of networked governance. But here too more ambiguous influences were at work with reform again proving more problematic than anticipated.
Full text of an earlier version of this article (PDF 20pp)
Monday, 27 February 2012
Can Russia be modernized? Problems, causes, opportunities
via Eurozine articles by Vladislav Inozemtsev
Plans to modernise Russia’s economy are resisted by bureaucracies benefiting from the country’s role as natural resource appendage of the developed world. That dependency on energy exports hinders political and economic progress is certain is certain. But is high-tech the solution?
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Plans to modernise Russia’s economy are resisted by bureaucracies benefiting from the country’s role as natural resource appendage of the developed world. That dependency on energy exports hinders political and economic progress is certain is certain. But is high-tech the solution?
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