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Business-managed democracy: The trade agenda
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the role of business coalitions, elite networking bodies and policy planning groups in fostering unity amongst corporate actors and enrolling poli…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 496-518
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Corporate and political strategy in relation to the Private Finance Initiativ…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) allows corporations to access guaranteed flows of public funds in exchange for the use of new facilities and the provision of asset-based services such as maintenance and estates management. The policy has been developed in the UK since 1992 and has been applied in fields of social policy analysis: notably, health and education. PFI has been a difficult poli…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 519-540
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Forging a ‘neoliberal pedagogy’: The ‘enterprising education’ agenda …
New Labour came to power with a stated commitment to ‘education, education, education’ and confirmed quickly that this commitment included a greater role for business in the modernization of state schools. One important, yet under-researched, element of direct business involvement is in school pupils’ personal and academic development evident in the increasingly pervasive embedding of rhetoric …
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 541-563
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Corporate strategy, corporate capture: Food and alcohol industry lobbying and…
This article examines two industry sectors — those making and selling fast food and alcoholic beverages or associated products. We examine their role in influencing policy and decision making on the regulation of their products for health reasons. We argue that the food and alcohol industries engage in a very wide range of tactics and strategies to defend and indeed to promote their ‘licence to…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 564-589
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Winters, Summers, and Destructive Leadership Cultures in Rich Regions
Van de Vliert’s (2009) climato-economic theory of culture proposes that the impact of climatic demands on culture is influenced by wealth resources. In rich regions, much cold and heat in conjunction with relatively little wealth (undermatching) and little cold and heat in conjunction with relatively much wealth ( overmatching) both are thought to produce less destructive leadership cultures th…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 315-340
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Assessing Cross-National Invariance of the Three-Component Model of Organizat…
This study examined cross-national invariance of Meyer and Allen’s three-component model of organizational commitment using samples of university faculty from six European countries. The analysis revealed strict factorial measurement invariance of affective, continuance, and normative organizational commitment constructs (AC, CC, and NC, respectively). While the samples failed to differ in AC a…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 341-373
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Cross-Cultural Research on the Reliability and Validity of the Mayer-Salovey-…
Despite the rather large literature concerning emotional intelligence, the vast majority of studies concerning development and validation of emotional intelligence scales have been done in the Western countries. Hence, a major limitation in this literature is its decidedly Western focus. The aim of this research was to assess the psychometric properties of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Int…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 374-404
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House Floor Area as a Correlate of Marital Residence Pattern: A Logistic Regr…
The goal of this article is to reflect on the relationship between average house floor area and marital residence pattern.This article brings three novel elements to this research problem: (a) it combines cases from the previous studies thus creating a larger empirical base, (b) logistic regression is used as an analytical technique which can test the significance and strength of the correlatio…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 405-424
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The Results: How Britain Voted
Between 2005 and 2010, despite some ‘random shocks’ caused by the emergence of new party leaders, the trends in party support suggested a return to the traditional inter-election cycle. During the election campaign, however, there were dramatic changes as the popularity of Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, increased sharply. In terms of votes, the Conservatives emerged as the largest party b…
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- Vol. 63, No. 4, October 2010.pp. 588-606.
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Five Days in May: A New Political Order Emerges
The 2010 general election result was so finely balanced that only a combination of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats together could command a workable majority in the House of Commons. However, this combination meant that the Liberal Democrats had to abandon their centre-left positioning and, accepting the arithmetic conclusion of the election, help form a centre-right administration. Thi…
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- Vol. 63, No. 4, October 2010.pp. 607-622
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So What Went Wrong with the Electoral System? The 2010 Election Result and th…
Single-member plurality is often thought to facilitate a two-party system of alternating single-party majority government. However, no party secured an overall majority in the 2010 UK election, which was followed by the formation of the first peacetime coalition government since the 1930s. This article assesses whether this outcome was a one-off occurrence or was symptomatic of longer term chan…
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- Vol. 63, No. 4, October 2010.pp. 623-638
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New Labour and Political Change
Labour won three general elections and governed for 13 years between 1997 and 2010, the longest period of government in its history. How far Labour succeeded in changing British politics permanently in this period has been much debated. Different approaches to this question are considered, as well as different contexts that are useful in forming an assessment. The impact of new Labour on electo…
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- Vol. 63, No. 4, October 2010.pp. 639-652
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Labour's Campaign: Things Can Only Get Worse?
Labour's failure to secure re-election hardly came as a surprise given its performance in government and at the polls since 2005. It was moreover the third election a row that the party had lost votes from across the social spectrum. However, despite a flawed leader and a difficult economic context, the party nearly secured enough seats to provide the basis for a coalition with the Liberal Demo…
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- Vol. 63 No.4, October 2010.pp. 653-666
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Strategic Recovery? The Conservatives Under David Cameron
Under David Cameron the Conservative party recovered sufficiently to deliver a Conservative Prime Minister. Cameron achieved what three leaders before him did not: a consistent poll lead over Labour and a broadening of the Conservative message. This chapter also highlights two major limitations to the Conservative ‘recovery’; (i) the size of the Conservative base has not enlarged: roughly the s…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4, October 2010.pp. 667-688
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The Campaign That Changed Everything and Still Did Not Matter? The Liberal De…
This contribution examines the Liberal Democrat campaign and their subsequent performance in the 2010 General Election. Despite what appeared to be a ground-breaking campaign, the Liberal Democrat performance in the 2010 election was—as Clegg acknowledged—disappointing for the party. Here we argue that the story of the 2010 Liberal Democrat election was the remarkable similarity with 2005, with…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4. October 2010.pp. 689-707
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A Catenaccio Game: the 2010 Election in Scotland
The result of the general election in Scotland was very different from the rest of the UK. No seats changed hands. Labour consolidated its position as the dominant party in Scotland. Cameron may have been able to detoxify the Conservatives’ image in England but failed to do the same in Scotland. The Liberal Democrats were the only major party in Scotland to see its vote share reduced. Neverthel…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4. October 2010.pp. 708-725
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Wales and the 2010 General Election
Wales is distinctive in British general elections for its higher than average levels of support for the Labour Party. However, following evidence of Labour decline and public opposition after its unprecedented 13 years of office, there were questions over whether perceived Labour one-partyism in Wales would be finally superseded. In practice, although the election resulted in an increased fragm…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4. October 2010.pp. 726-741
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Northern Ireland: Unionism Loses More Leaders
Northern Ireland's 2010 Westminster election saw the dramatic unseating of the First Minister, Peter Robinson, from his East Belfast seat by the cross-community Alliance Party. Beyond the headline scalp, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein continued to dominate the Unionist and Nationalist electoral blocs, with Sinn Fein holding its five seats. This success raised the outside possibilit…
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- Vol.63. No 4. October 2010.pp. 742-759
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‘Wags’, ‘Wives’ and ‘Mothers’ But what about Women Politicians?
The UK general election of 2010 should have been a critical one for women. But it was not to be. Despite all of the main political parties claiming to want more women MPs the increase in their number relative to the 2005 Parliament was just 2.5%. Women remain under-represented numerically in the House of Commons, constituting less than one-quarter of all MPs. The election campaign was largely w…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4. October 2010.pp. 760-777
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Party Finance: Normal Service Resumed?
Whereas the period under Tony Blair had seen Labour emerge as the richer of the two largest parties, the 2010 election was characterised by significant disparities in party wealth, with the Conservatives emerging as the strongest party by some margin. This had a significant bearing on how the campaigns were fought, with Labour needing to make decisions on how to campaign based principally on wh…
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- Vol. 63. No. 4. October 2010.pp. 778-801
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