The contribution of unpaid work, often performed by women, is and has been largely unrecognised, a situation feminist scholars have long drawn to our attention.…
Irrespective of moral and political arguments, current fiscal restraints in the English National Health Service (NHS) make decommissioning apparently unavoidable. Decommissioning – that is the removal, relocation or replacement of treatments and services – is being pursued by health care planners in response to the need to balance budgets, but has also been advocated by exponents of evidence based medicine on quality grounds (Hurley, 2014; Malhotra et al, 2015).…
Since the Brexit referendum the UK government has been criticised for failing to recognise the positions and concerns of the devolved governments.…
In this post, Anne Peters gives us an overview of the Symposium on Global Animal Law: Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals that is now published open access by AJIL Unbound.…
Now that the new academic year has arrived, many Ph.D. students will be going on the job market for the first time.…
If you teach in a sociology program, you have no doubt heard of teaching through active learning. Most college instructors now know that students learn more and perform better when actively engaged in (and out) of the classroom (Bajak 2014, Killian and Bastas 2015).…
Leaving the EU would free up more money for the NHS, according to Leave campaigners. This pledge has been all but disowned – and in any case, writes Joan Costa Font, Brexit will impose further costs on an already cash-strapped service. …
I am delighted to announce a new editorial team for JEPS, which will hit the ground running after APSA. We will have seven associate editors and a senior associate editor.…
The role of regulation in saving lives, enhancing public health and welfare, and protecting the environment rarely features in policy debates in the UK.…
As many commentators have pointed out, the UK welfare state faces long-term structural problems in two main areas. Globalisation and technological changes demand that government directs attention to national competitiveness, and population ageing requires more spending on pensions, health and social care.…
With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies. The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
In this post, the guest Editors of the latest 50th anniversary issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Fiona MacDonald, Tracey Raney, Cheryl N.…
This article just published in JSP is a direct challenge to official and mainstream social policy orthodoxy on the issue of ageing which focuses on old age, not ageing, and assumes that later life is a natural period of decline. …
Caring can significantly affect the wellbeing and quality of life of informal carers and the people they support. It is essential, therefore, that care relationships are adequately supported.…
Prostitution and assisted dying are highly contentious topics in German politics and many more countries around the world. Policy-makers commonly disagree on the “right way” of solving related policy problems.…
Introduction A longer articulation of Holyrood and Westminster’s views of social citizenship and refugee rights has been published in Mulvey’s latest article in the Journal of Social Policy.…
Welfare states support vulnerable citizens by means of different types of social policy. Examples include unemployment and pension benefits, and social assistance schemes.…
Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
The so called ‘Troika’ of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund was frequently criticised during the Eurozone crisis on the basis that it had imposed austerity on countries requiring a bailout.…
It is almost two months after Christmas and food banks are recovering from one of their most active periods of the year.…
What is payday lending? Payday loans have become synonymous with ‘irresponsible lending’ but the original aim of such lending was to help people borrow a small amount of money in advance of their pay-day.…
Blog post by Hilary Graham and Piran White Rich societies like the UK are changing the planet for the worse. Human life is taking a heavy toll on the Earth, its climate and various ecosystems.…
The Troubled Families Programme is once again back in the news. Launched in the aftermath of the 2011 riots, with the explicit aim of ‘turning around’ the 120,000 most ‘troubled families’ in England, it was one of the most high-profile social policies of the Coalition Government. …
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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