Shrinking cities in Australia, Japan, Europe and the USA: From a global process to local policy responses

2016 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez ◽  
Tamara Weyman ◽  
Sylvie Fol ◽  
Ivonne Audirac ◽  
Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lorayne P. Robertson ◽  
Heather Leatham ◽  
James Robertson ◽  
Bill Muirhead

This chapter examines digital privacy and key terminology associated with the protection of online personal information across two countries and through an education lens. The authors raise awareness of the identified risks for students as their online presence grows. The authors highlight some of the potential consequences of a lack of awareness of the risks associated with sharing information online. They outline the obligations of multiple parties (from the vendor to the end user) when students use online apps, including the teachers and parents who want to protect students' digital privacy. Employing policy analysis and a comparative approach, they examine federal, national, and local legislation, as well as curriculum responses to this issue in the USA and Canada. When the authors compare federal policy responses from these two countries, they find that they differ in instructive ways. The chapter concludes with a focus on risk abatement, including solutions and recommendations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mark Halladay ◽  
Charlene Harrington

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare two scandals related to the care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in the USA and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A descriptive case study methodology was used to conduct an in-depth qualitative analysis of the two scandals to examine the process of scandal development, and to survey the policy response against policy trends and theories of abuse in each case. The two cases were systematically analysed against a theoretical framework derived from Bonnie and Wallace (2003) theoretical framework for understanding abuse based on its sociocultural context, the social embeddedness of organisations providing care, and the individual level characteristics and interactions of subjects and carers. Findings – In both cases the process of scandal construction was comparable, and each case offered confirmatory support to extant theories of abuse, and to wider policy trends within I/DD. Research limitations/implications – The study examines only the short-term policy responses to the scandals in two countries, based on published material only. Originality/value – This paper contributes an international comparison of the similarities and differences in the social construction of scandal and the policy responses to abuse and neglect of a vulnerable population using systematic analytical frameworks.


2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby A Ten Eyck ◽  
George Gaskell ◽  
Jonathan Jackson

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 735-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Aryeetey-Attoh ◽  
Frank J. Costa ◽  
Hazel A. Morrow-Jones ◽  
Charles B. Monroe ◽  
Gail G. Sommers

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Lindsay ◽  
Garry Sturgeon

This paper examines locally developed policy responses to long-term unemployment in the city of Edinburgh: a labour market characterised by relatively lowunemployment and generally high levels of demand. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 115 long-term unemployed people residing in the city, the paper first analyses the complex combination of barriers to work faced by members of this client group. Two recent labour market initiatives, developed by the local authority in partnership with other public and third sector agencies and (in one case) major employers, are then discussed. It is suggested that this locally focused, partnership-based approach may provide a useful model for local policy responses to long-term unemployment, particularly in buoyant labour markets.


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