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Selected AbstractsThe Empire Meets the New Deal: Interwar Encounters in Conservation and Regional PlanningGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2005J.M. POWELL Abstract British imperial and American experiences in conservation and planning are providing fresh interdisciplinary challenges for university teaching and research. The Roosevelt administration's ,New Deal' included government-sponsored interventions in soil erosion and water management and sophisticated regional development agendas. Reviewing samples of the latter areas of concern, this article explores the proposition that, although the British Empire was scarcely bereft of comparable interwar programmes and was becoming somewhat preoccupied with centrifugal tendencies, persistent porosity, exhausting struggles with postwar reconstruction, and comprehensive economic depression, New Deal evangelism was in fact variously anticipated, harnessed, challenged and ignored. A discussion of widely separated national and regional examples locates a layered interplay between uneven imperial and US pulsations, independent local manoeuvres, and critical inputs from key individual agents. The most important filters included the presence of comparatively robust bureaucratic infrastructures and the cultivation of international relationships by scientists and technologists. Encounters with convergent revisionism suggest cautionary leads for students, researchers and teachers alike. Reconstructions of selected contexts underline the presence of familiar posturing, opportunism, and astute patriotic deployment during the emergence of modern styles of globalization. [source] Managing Diversity? ,Community Cohesion' and Its Limits in Neoliberal Urban PolicyGEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2008Julie MacLeavy The concept of ,community cohesion' has played a defining role in the institution of a new policy agenda for regenerating urban areas in many liberal welfare states. Its particular interpretation supports the installation of urban programmes that are based not on the improvement of the built environment, but rather investment in the social and cultural composition of cities. In particular, the economic and civic participation of individuals living within deprived urban areas is positioned as a key means of redressing situations of inequality and disadvantage. This article reviews the concept of ,community cohesion', its use in urban policy in the UK, and the recent literature on this subject. Through an indicative discussion of the New Deal for Communities programme, it explores the potential implications of ,community cohesion' for disadvantaged policy subjects and considers especially its provisions for ethnic minority groups: a constellation of community in which individuals are understood to experience a ,double disadvantage' as a result of their disproportionate concentration in deprived urban areas, and their subjection to the consequences of racial discrimination (as well as language and cultural barriers). [source] This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal , By Sarah T. PhillipsHISTORY, Issue 316 2009FIONA VENN No abstract is available for this article. [source] Junior doctors' working hours: Perspectives on the reformsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, Issue 3 2008Carol Wilkinson MSc BA(Hons) RGN Teacher's Cert Fellow Higher Education AcademyArticle first published online: 5 MAY 200 The European Working Time Directive for junior doctors came into force in Britain in August 2004. The reforms themselves have been a long time in development and implementation since the inception and debates regarding the New Deal, to the current formations under health and safety legislation. This study, undertaken within a hospital trust setting in England, provides an insight into the perspectives of doctors, nurses and human resources managers in relation to the European Working Time Directive. Critical consideration is given to the impact of the reforms upon the National Health Service and more specifically to daily working relationships at the point of implementation. The results demonstrate some ambivalence towards the reforms because of the major shift in culture for the professions per se, but also for the future of health-care delivery where there are considerable tensions. [source] Powering, Puzzling, or Persuading?INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2007The Mechanisms of Building Institutional Orders This article offers an agent-centered constructivist analysis of institution building; that of the "first" New Deal of the National Recovery Administration. It argues that in moments of uncertainty generated by the failure of existing institutions, institutional choice becomes underdetermined by structure and open to attempts at creative and underdetermined inter-elite persuasion. What matters in such moments are the locally generated "crisis-defining" ideas at hand rather than simply the ostensible material positions of the actors in question. How this process took place in the U.S. is compared with both similar historical cases and alternative materialist models. An alternative model is developed, and in conclusion it is suggested why periods of deflation may be particularly open to inter-elite attempts at persuasion. [source] Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is It Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection?JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2010The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History The first year of Barack Obama's presidency has returned consumer issues to center stage, with several contentious struggles over consumer protection. This moment can be viewed as a fourth wave of the twentieth-century consumer movement, and a comparison with the first three waves (during the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the 1960s,1970s) offers instructive insights. In particular, the contemporary battle over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bears striking similarities to the failed campaign for a Consumer Protection Agency in the 1970s. [source] Brandeis, Erie, and the New Deal "Constitutional Revolution"JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY, Issue 3 2001Edward A. Purcell [source] Der New Deal, "Welfare to Work"-Programme in GroßbritannienPERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 2 2002Peter Dolton First page of article [source] The Strange Career of Frank Murphy: Conservatives, State,Level Politics, and the End of the New DealTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2002James Wolfinger [source] Toward a New Deal for Coal?: The United States Coal Commission of 1922THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Issue 3 2008Eric Jarvis [source] Effects of the European Working Time Directive on anaesthetic training in the United KingdomANAESTHESIA, Issue 8 2004D. J. Sim Summary Decreases in the hours worked by trainee anaesthetists are being brought about by both the New Deal for Trainees and the European Working Time Directive. Anticipated improvements in health and safety achieved by a decrease in hours will be at the expense of training time if the amount of night-time work remains constant. This audit examined the effects of a change from a partial to a full shift system on a cohort of trainee anaesthetists working in a large district general hospital in the South-west of England. Logbook and list analyses were performed for two 10-week periods: one before and one after the decrease in hours. An 18% decrease in the number of cases done and an 11% decrease in the number of weekly training lists were found for specialist registrars. A 22% decrease in the number of cases done and a 14% decrease in the number of weekly training lists were found for senior house officers. Furthermore, a decrease of one service list per specialist registrar per week was seen, which will have implications for consultant manpower requirements. [source] A new deal for lone parents?AREA, Issue 2 2008Training lone parents for work in West London In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ,New Deal for Lone Parents' in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that in a local economy such as West London where more childcare workers are desperately needed to enable other more highly skilled workers to take up employment opportunities, such training programmes may be doing little more than exacerbating the already gendered and class-based polarisation of the labour market , embedding low-skilled, poorly qualified lone mothers into low-paid jobs. [source] Putting workfare in place , local labour markets and the New Deal by Peter Sunley, Ron Martin and Corinne NativelAREA, Issue 4 2007Michelle Baddeley No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Empire Meets the New Deal: Interwar Encounters in Conservation and Regional PlanningGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2005J.M. POWELL Abstract British imperial and American experiences in conservation and planning are providing fresh interdisciplinary challenges for university teaching and research. The Roosevelt administration's ,New Deal' included government-sponsored interventions in soil erosion and water management and sophisticated regional development agendas. Reviewing samples of the latter areas of concern, this article explores the proposition that, although the British Empire was scarcely bereft of comparable interwar programmes and was becoming somewhat preoccupied with centrifugal tendencies, persistent porosity, exhausting struggles with postwar reconstruction, and comprehensive economic depression, New Deal evangelism was in fact variously anticipated, harnessed, challenged and ignored. A discussion of widely separated national and regional examples locates a layered interplay between uneven imperial and US pulsations, independent local manoeuvres, and critical inputs from key individual agents. The most important filters included the presence of comparatively robust bureaucratic infrastructures and the cultivation of international relationships by scientists and technologists. Encounters with convergent revisionism suggest cautionary leads for students, researchers and teachers alike. Reconstructions of selected contexts underline the presence of familiar posturing, opportunism, and astute patriotic deployment during the emergence of modern styles of globalization. [source] A new deal for lone parents?AREA, Issue 2 2008Training lone parents for work in West London In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ,New Deal for Lone Parents' in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that in a local economy such as West London where more childcare workers are desperately needed to enable other more highly skilled workers to take up employment opportunities, such training programmes may be doing little more than exacerbating the already gendered and class-based polarisation of the labour market , embedding low-skilled, poorly qualified lone mothers into low-paid jobs. [source] Was There an Alternative to the Personal Rule?HISTORY, Issue 299 2005Charles I, the Parliament of 162, the Privy Council This article demonstrates that in the months following the duke of Buckingham's assassination in August 1628 Charles I's ,patriot' privy councillors, apparently with the blessing of the king, put together a ,new deal' for co-operation between crown and people. This was based on settling grievances over Arminianism and tonnage and poundage, re-launching the war against Spain, and re-establishing a harmonious relationship with parliament. The scheme broke down when parliament met in January 1629 and radical elements in the House of Commons implemented their alternative strategy of punishing the king's ,evil counsellors'. Had it succeeded it could have provided the basis for an alternative to Charles I's Personal Rule. [source] Operational Improvement: The Key to Value Creation in Private EquityJOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE, Issue 3 2009Gary Matthews With credit tightening having reduced the availability of leverage and intensified the competition for new deals, the economic recession has caused many companies in private equity firm portfolios to under-perform. These changes are forcing the private equity firms to depend even more on their ability to improve operating performance to achieve their investment goals and generate attractive returns. But few PE firms have proved capable of achieving such improvements in portfolio companies consistently over time. In this paper, the authors discuss several ways that private equity firms use their operating expertise to drive value in their portfolio companies. They also examine the analytical framework used by some PE firms when assessing and prioritizing the many operational initiatives that could be undertaken within a newly acquired company. Part of that examination involves a detailed look at how private equity firms assemble an attractive mix of operational improvement projects in their initial 100-day plans. Finally, the authors explore one of the challenges faced by private equity firms when attempting to implement operational enhancements in newly acquired companies: bringing about change without alienating company management. The real-world application of this approach is demonstrated with a case study that shows how one private equity buyer put its operational skills into practice to help create value within a mid-sized portfolio company. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||