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Colin Mayer, Denis Swann

Journal Article The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US Get access The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US. By DENIS SWANN. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988. Pp. xv + 344. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7450 0152 1.) Colin Maye...

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Michael E. Snyder

Bradley H. Patterson, James P. Pfiffner

One of the greatest challenges of a new presidential administration is recruiting and bringing on board the political appointees who will help the new president lead the executive branch. The people who carry out this task for the president work in the Office of Presidential Personnel (OPP). This ar...

Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer Kolltveit

Political appointees from different parties from that of their minister—cross‐partisan appointees (CPAs)—are increasingly found in the core executive. Ministerial advisory scholarship has overlooked CPAs, while the coalition governance literature sees them as ‘spies’ and ‘coalition watchdogs’. This ...

Sebastian Kohl, Jardar Sørvoll

Abstract The historical-comparative study of social democracy and cooperative organization are the foster children of historical sociology. This article offers a first account of systematic ideological differences in social-democratic ideology regarding private ownership and different cooperative tr...

David Denver, Alistair Clark, Lynn Bennie

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) has featured prominently in debates on electoral reform in Britain but until now there has been little hard evidence on how British voters might react to this electoral system. This has changed with the introduction of STV for the 2007 Scottish local government ele...

Jonathan Boswell

Professor Boswell here discusses how informal social control was exercised over business conduct in the six decades from 1880 to World War II. He seeks to explain why some firms were more responsive to the public than others.

Nizam Ahmed

The parliament of Bangladesh owes its origin to the British parliament. Its precursor, the Legislative Council of Bengal, was established in 1861, more than a century after the British first colonized India. There has been a new beginning in parliamentary politics since the beginning of the 1990s. M...

Martha Joynt Kumar, George C. Edwards, James P. Pfiffner, Terry Sullivan

In the seventy‐four days between the November 7 election and the inauguration on January 20, the next president will need to form his White House team, designate fourteen cabinet secretaries, deliver his inaugural address, present his agenda to the nation, and send to Congress a budget of around $1....

Sarah Hackett

This paper examines the North-East's regional identity and places it in the context of Asian immigrant experiences in Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1980s. It begins by providing an account of north-eastern regionalism and details how it has been claimed that this regional patriotism has historicall...

David G. Haglund, Umut Korkut

Can states as well as non-state political ‘actors’ learn from the history of cognate entities elsewhere in time and space, and if so how and when does this policy knowledge get ‘transferred’ across international borders? This article deals with this question, addressing a short-lived Hungarian ‘tuto...

Cynthia Kaufman

Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labour, police abuse, and economic deprivation. In Accountability Democra...

Jesse Hembruff

Abstract In this article, I interrogate what is meant by ‘the politics of sovereign debt’, and examine how various authors, especially David Graeber, have addressed this question. More specifically, I seek to extend my contribution to the goals of the ‘Repoliticizing Debt’ workshop, which inspired t...