Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds.
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013)
Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. Information Polity, 18, 93-96. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130298
Brian Loader and Dan Mercea rally a group of political/social/media scientists to shed light on social media and democracy. Is social media supporting transformations of democ...
Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy
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Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., & Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2011)
Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy. In Y. Charalabidis, & S. Koussouris (Eds.), Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance, 181-197. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27219-6_10
This chapter describes an eParticipation model, designed to be especially appropriate to young people and complex topics: distributed discussion. It draws on the experiences o...
Powers in the Land?
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008)
Powers in the Land?. Journalism Practice, 2, 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780801999386
The expansion of opinion is one of the key developments in the British press, as elsewhere. The article analyses the role of one of the most important types of commentator, ne...
“Can such goodness be profitably discarded?” Benedict Anderson and the politics of nationalism.
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Wollman, H., & Spencer, P. (2006)
“Can such goodness be profitably discarded?” Benedict Anderson and the politics of nationalism. In A. McCleery, & B. Brabon (Eds.), The Influence of Benedict Anderson, 1-20. Merchiston Press
Imagined Communities has been extraordinarily successful and one of the most (if not the most) influential books in the contemporary literature on nationalism. Anderson’s defi...
The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society
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Duff, A. S. (2004)
The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society. Information, Communication and Society, 7(1), 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000208906
The profile of information policy in academic and policy-making circles has been rising in recent decades, a function, presumably, of the expansion of an 'information society'...
Local government and the problem of English governance.
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Fenwick, J., McMillan, J., & Elcock, H. (2009)
Local government and the problem of English governance. Local Government Studies, 35, 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930802574417
The paper is concerned with the problematic nature of English governance. The discussion begins with reference to the reluctance to engage in debates about English national go...
The role of regional trading blocks in the development and management of tourism: an analysis of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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Anastasiadou, C., & De Sausmarez, N. (2005)
The role of regional trading blocks in the development and management of tourism: an analysis of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. International Journal of Tourism Research, 8, 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.579
The establishment of regional trading blocs is considered an important aspect of the process of economic and political globalisation. Focusing on the European Union and the As...
Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum
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Pich, C., Harvey, J., Armannsdottir, G., Poorrezaei, M., Branco-Illodo, I., & Kincaid, A. (2018)
Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum. International Journal of Market Research, 60(6), 589-610. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470785318793260
This article presents a study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum—a democratic vote on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. Using the ...
Nationalism: a critical introduction.
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Wollman, H., & Spencer, P. (2001)
Nationalism: a critical introduction. Sage
Nationalism provides an indispensable review of the study of nationalism that both introduces and critically positions all the main issues, theories and contemporary debates. ...
Public private partnerships in China: rationale, system and constraints.
Journal Article
Adams, J. (2006)
Public private partnerships in China: rationale, system and constraints. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 19, 384-396. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550610669202
Public private partnership (PPP), which has been operating in China for over 20 years. In addition, an increased focus on value for money in the public sector has led to a nee...