Policy@Manchester Articles

Expert insight, analysis and comment on key public policy issues

  • All Posts
  • UK Politics
  • Energy and Environment
  • Growth and Inclusion
  • Health and Social Care
  • Urban
  • Science and Engineering
Policy@Manchester Articles: All posts
You are here: Home / Archives for All posts
Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Reform of world trade long overdue

Rorden Wilkinson By Rorden Wilkinson Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 26, 2014

Reports that Russia is threatening to take the United States to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over sanctions imposed because of the Ukraine crisis throws the global trade body into a more geopolitical light than we have grown accustomed to in recent times. More commonly, the WTO is associated with what are rather wearisome disagreements […]

Tagged With: Bali, Doha, world trade

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

The problem with alcohol advertising

David French By David French Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 3, 2014

The public believes that television alcohol adverts breach their regulatory controls. There is a clear need to strengthen the rules, argues Professor David French. Television advertising of alcohol is subject to what should be strong content controls. Regulations ban advertisements from implying that alcohol can contribute to popularity or confidence, or that it is capable […]

Tagged With: advertising, alcohol, ASA, BCAP, Health Select Committee, Loi evin, Ofcom, television, television advertising

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Consultants still playing a big role in government

Helen Gunter By Helen Gunter Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 2, 2014

Four years on from the bonfire of the quangos, non-elected consultants are still playing a significant role within government, says Prof Helen Gunter. The focus on leadership as the solution for improving public services continues to dominate reform. And aligned to this is the whole concept of ‘consultocracy’, a term first coined by Hood and Jackson to underline the […]

Tagged With: consultocracy, education, Hood and Jackson, michael barber, pat collarbone, tony mackay

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Open up on costs to improve NHS care

Sue Llewellyn By Sue Llewellyn Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 2, 2014

Sharing information on the cost of treatment could help achieve better patient outcomes at a lower cost, says Professor Sue Llewellyn. But, given the current tensions between collaboration and competition in the NHS, some trusts seem unwilling to provide the ‘commercially sensitive’ information to commissioners that would help make this happen. A recent Parliamentary health select committee report urged […]

Tagged With: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Health Select Committee, Monitor, NHS, NHS competition policy, Patient Level Information and Costing System, PLICS

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Doing wrong in order to do right in Northern Ireland

Stephen De Wijze By Stephen De Wijze Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 6, 2014

As recent events in Northern Ireland have shown, sometimes it is necessary to do wrong in order to do right and we need to understand better this moral paradox when judging politicians, says Dr Stephen de Wijze. The debate about how Northern Ireland deals with its dreadful past has been building for many months. Indeed […]

Tagged With: Gerry Adams, jean mcconville, northern ireland, peace process

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Who owns London’s revenues?

Adam Leaver By Adam Leaver Filed Under: All posts Posted: April 10, 2014

The debate is raging on whether London disproportionately creates or consumes the UK’s revenues. Dr Adam Leaver chips in. Ever since Evan Davis presented Mind the Gap, a debate has raged about whether London’s dominance of the UK economy is a positive or a negative. While my colleagues Iain Deas, Graham Haughton and Stephen Hincks have put forward the […]

Tagged With: Evan Davis, London, Mind the Gap, PFI, regional growth, regional policy, transport expenditure

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Japanese government turns matchmaker to boost birth rate

Aya Homei By Aya Homei Filed Under: All posts Posted: March 27, 2014

Japan has announced it is spending millions of pounds on state-sponsored dating events to boost its slumping birth rate. But as Dr Aya Homei argues, this overly simplistic approach is a diversion from the consequences of a fiercely male work culture that makes little allowance for women and their childcare needs. The Telegraph recently reported on […]

Tagged With: birth rates, Japan, Japanese, machikon, policy, population

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Middle managers hold key public health role

Kathryn Oliver By Kathryn Oliver Filed Under: All posts Posted: March 17, 2014

Ignore middle managers at your peril. They may be central to development and implementation of policy, explains Dr Kathryn Oliver Middle managers are more important than people often think – and that is very true when it comes to influencing and implementing public health policy. In fact, middle managers without a professional training in public […]

Tagged With: Greater Manchester, middle management, middle managers, NHS, NHS reform, public health

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Will new enforcement tool help the Serious Fraud Office secure its reputation and ‘justice’?

Black and white headshot of Prof Nick Lord By Nicholas Lord Filed Under: All posts Posted: February 25, 2014

It’s been a difficult few years for the UK’s beleaguered Serious Fraud Office (SFO), writes Dr Nicholas Lord. As the authority responsible for the investigation and prosecution of corporate corruption in international business, it’s been blighted by a lack of prosecutions, collapsed cases, failed investigations and data loss. But while the introduction of Deferred Prosecution […]

Tagged With: DPAs, evidence, fraud, prosecution, serious fraud office, SFO

Banner image with Policy@Manchester visual branding

Gender perspective should not be forgotten amid Bosnia and Herzegovina unrest

Laura McLeod By Laura McLeod Filed Under: All posts Posted: February 12, 2014

The protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have not taken any observers of the country by surprise, writes Dr Laura McLeod. But, she argues, amid all the early analyses and demands, it’s vital to make sure a gender perspective is included. Resentment about ongoing corruption encouraged and perpetuated by many politicians and political parties has […]

Tagged With: BiH, Bosnia, change, corruption, gender, Herzegovina, reform, riots, unrest

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • Next Page »

Our RSS feed

Receive our latest content and timely updates by subscribing to our RSS feed.

 Subscribe in your reader

Become a contributor

Would you like to write for us on a public policy issue? Get in touch with a member of the team, ask for our editorial guidelines, or access our online training toolkit (UoM login required).

Disclaimer

Articles give the views of the author, and are not necessarily those of The University of Manchester.

Policy@Manchester

Manchester Policy Articles is an initiative from Policy@Manchester. Visit our web site to find out more

Contact Us

policy@manchester.ac.uk
t: +44 (0) 161 275 3038
The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Copyright © 2025 · Policy Blog 2 on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in