The United Kingdom: A Natural Experiment Between Private and Public Management

2015 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Manuel Schiffler
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public

The United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 474-488
Author(s):  
Martin Johnes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Private And Public

The United Kingdom played a key role in the development of many of the ideas central to the modern Christmas. However, British festive practices always varied by class, gender, region, and the four nations of the United Kingdom. Some of these variations lessened in the second half of the twentieth century due to the rise of affluence and the growth of a mass media. Indeed, Christmas in modern Britain came to be an integrative experience. It brought people closer to their family, friends, neighbours, community, compatriots and, occasionally, the poor and suffering. It crossed any notional boundaries between the private and public spheres and helped maintain a common way of life in a society divided by class, ethnicity, and taste. Christmas thus came to be viewed as part of a British way of life, even if variations remained in the precise ways people celebrated.

scholarly journals Are Corporate Governance Code Disclosure and Engagement Principles Effective Vehicles for Corporate Accountability? The United Kingdom as a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 177-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill North
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Corporate Governance Code ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public

Disclosure and engagement principles are included in every corporate governance code, reflecting a critical emphasis on communication as a vehicle for corporate accountability. These communication principles have been a focus of reform worldwide, prompted by shifts in financial market and social expectations of corporations. The article examines the disclosure and engagement provisions in the Corporate Governance Code in the United Kingdom (and the proposed reforms to these provisions) as a case study. The proposed initiatives seek to strengthen the voice of employees and enhance disclosure around environmental and social concerns. However, this article contends that the gains achieved from these reforms may be marginal due to structural deficiencies. The incremental disclosure and engagement obligations are expected to be flexible and loosely phrased, with a negligible probability of significant market consequences or regulatory intervention. Moreover, most substantive corporate communication will continue to occur at private forums between directors and selected institutional investors. In financial markets with these regulatory settings, effective governance mechanisms to ensure broad and independent accountability of corporations are lacking or weak. Indeed, these legal structures encourage and legitimise carefully differentiated private and public communication channels, with the public discourse used to present a sparkling company image. Policy makers need to re-consider their reliance on private forums to improve governance standards and ensure that public communication frameworks are inclusive, responsive, probative and enforced. In this way, company law will start to meet the growing calls for corporates to act as responsible citizens.

scholarly journals Independent Community Archives: Challenging the Status Quo of Private and Public Archives

Atlanti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-215
Author(s):  
Anne J. Gilliland ◽  
Tamara Štefanac
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North America ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Community Archives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Public Archives

The community archives movement has emerged as a prominent, and often critical, presence within, and also outside the archival traditions and practices in North America and the United Kingdom. They can take many forms and often contest how both public and private archives in these regions have historically been understood, structured and operated. This paper first presents a brief review of some of the ways in which community archives have been framed in the archival literature. It then considers several questions regarding how such framings of community archives might challenge the status quo of private and public archives as currently defined and organized under the recently revised Croatian legislative framework and proposes a more conciliatory approach.

scholarly journals Az orvosi hálapénz megoldásának történelmi kulcsa

2019 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Péter Balázs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health System ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Real Solution ◽  
Public Financing ◽  
Informal Payment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Developed World

Abstract: There is no nation in the developed world without dysfunctions of its health care system. The cause behind is universal since it goes back to the historic conflict of private and public financing of services. Phenomena on the surface are multi-faceted, in Hungary they are concentrated in the doctors’ informal payment the original pattern of which was emerging three centuries ago. While neglecting our series of mismanagement, all our new initiatives will disable any real solution. The world’s best health system models in Germany and the United Kingdom function without informal payment. Their substantial models compromise private and public financing. Instead of questionable ideas, Hungary needs to find its own relevant solution based on a new deal with the society but it must have a firm base of scientific evidences. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(2): 50–56.

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