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As migration debate rages, look to Manchester for integration inspiration

Yaron Matras By Yaron Matras Filed Under: All posts Posted: December 23, 2013

Unless the UK tackles anti-Roma perceptions and prejudice, the exclusion and marginalisation of Roma will continue to thwart any chance of their integration, writes Prof Yaron Matras. Those who follow the situation of Europe’s Roma know that there is never a “dull” week in which we don’t hear of accusations, abuse, or even violence against […]

Tagged With: cohesion, immigration, integration, migration, Roma, Sheffield

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Microcredit and International Development: Contexts, Achievements and Challenges

Justice Bawole By Justice Bawole Filed Under: All posts Posted: December 11, 2013

Microcredit and International Development: Contexts, Achievements and Challenges. Edited by Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar. Routledge, 2011. Microfinance services have played important roles in the development of small and medium scale enterprises, writes Dr Justice Nyigmah Bawole. This title deals with contemporary experiences in the microfinance industry – and while it omits […]

Tagged With: development, international development, MFIs, microcredit, microfinance, poverty

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Is scrutiny in Wales about to come of age?

Alan Morris By Alan Morris Filed Under: All posts Posted: November 15, 2013

Until recently, many people have considered scrutiny in Welsh local government as the ‘poor cousin’ of the local democracy, writes Alan Morris.  It’s had a turbulent few years and some members of the local government community have questioned its value. However, he argues that the recognition of scrutiny’s important role seems to be about to […]

Tagged With: accountability, audit, local government, scrutiny, wales, WAO

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Health Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe: Options, obstacles, limited outcomes

Anna Raphael By Anna Raphael Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 24, 2013

Health Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe: Options, obstacles, limited outcomes, James Warner Björkman and Juraj Nemec (editors). Eleven International Publishing. June 2013. This title offers timely insight into the emerging patterns in health reforms in Central and Eastern European countries since the fall of the Berlin Wall, writes Anna Raphael. Authors present conclusions that […]

Tagged With: CEE, eastern europe, health, policy, post-soviet, reforms

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What do policymakers want from academics?

Paul AveyMichael Desch By Paul Avey and Michael Desch Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 17, 2013

What is it that the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations scholars?  An answer to this question matters, write Paul Avey and Michael Desch, because there has been recurrent interest among policymakers in drawing upon academic social science expertise in support of more effective national security policymaking. Despite this high-level interest, there has […]

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Learning to live with the Frankenstein’s Monster that is modern nursing

Stuart Butler By Stuart Butler Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 25, 2013

Today’s nurses have been accused of being “too posh to wash” and lacking compassion, writes Stuart Butler. But unless policymakers are willing to free up their time through further recruitment, or abandon their obsession with targets, they should learn to live with the professionalized work-force that is entirely of their own making.   Rather uniquely […]

Tagged With: HCA, jeremy hunt, NHS, nurses, nursing, policy, training

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Welcome to Manchester Policy Blogs (and the biggest Think Tank in Britain)

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 23, 2013

Thinks-tanks get a massive amount of (sometimes ill-deserved) attention, but they are small, usually ideologically biased and carry out only very limited research. We are big, neutral and carry out massive amounts of research – which doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. That is partly our fault, for not communicating our research well enough […]

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The Political Power of the Business Corporation

Carole Talbot By Carole Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 23, 2013

The Political Power of the Business Corporation, Stephen Wilks. Edward Elgar. March 2013. In The Political Power of the Business Corporation, the author argues that making corporations accountable is one of the most fundamental problems facing 21st century society along with terrorism, nuclear war and epidemics. It provides both an up-to-date analysis of how big […]

Nudge – Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 5, 2012

The influential book “Nudge” (Thaler and Sunstein 2008) comes from the emerging field of behavioral economics, which investigates the non-rational ways in which people make decisions. Its policy implications are radical – it advocates what the authors call “libertarian paternalism”. This paradoxical prescription is based on the idea of ‘choice architecture’ – the notion that the way […]

The Spirit Level – Wilkinson and Pickett

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 12, 2012

This book has been causing a bit of a stir in policy circles in the UK – ‘The Spirit Level’ is not another diatribe for or against God, as the name might suggest, but a book about equality. The main message is fairly simple – affluent societies tend to suffer social ills like mental health problems, drug use, physical […]

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