scholarly journals What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
RAJIV PRABHAKAR
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Repeated Calls ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Wealth Tax ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Over the past decade there have been repeated calls for the greater taxation of wealth. These calls have had little impact on policy. There has been a global trend to reduce or abolish taxes on wealth. The contrast suggests that it may be better now to explore how taxes on wealth may be made a reality rather than designing new tax proposals. What are the barriers to tax wealth? This paper addresses this by conducting a case study of a high profile plan for introducing a one-off wealth tax in the UK. It identifies a tyranny of the status quo, framing and the policy process as key barriers to tax reform. It uses thematic analysis to study how the plans for a one-off wealth tax were discussed in the media and the UK Parliament. This paper argues that there were important shortfalls in both the way the case for a wealth tax was framed as well as the engagement with the policy process. It claims that a stronger framing would have discussed wealth inequality in greater depth and there was a need for a less equivocal case to Parliamentarians.

scholarly journals Why Was a Wealth Tax for the UK Abandoned? Lessons for the Policy Process and Tackling Wealth Inequality

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOWARD GLENNERSTER
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Inherited Wealth ◽  
Wealth Tax ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the growing importance of inherited wealth. In 1974, a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It left office without doing so. Using the official archives of the time and those of a key advisor this paper traces both the origins of the policy and its fate at the hands of the civil service. It explores two related questions. What does this experience tell us about the role of the civil service in the policy process in the UK and what lessons might be learned by those wishing to tackle the issue of widening wealth disparities today?

The Importance of Convention Status: A Case Study of the UK

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social And Economic Rights

Convention status accords refugees social and economic rights and security of residence in European countries of asylum. However, the trend in Europe has been to prevent asylum seekers reaching its borders, to reduce the rights of asylum seekers in countries of asylum and to use temporary protection as a means of circumventing the responsibility of long-term resettlement. This paper will provide a case study of the United Kingdom. It will examine the social and economic rights afforded to different statuses in the areas of social security, housing, employment and family reunion. It will explore the interaction of social and economic rights and security of residence on the experiences of those seeking protection. Drawing on responses to the crisis in Kosovo and on data from a survey of 180 refugees and asylum seekers in London it will show the importance of Convention status and the rights and security the status brings.

Language revitalization through the media: A case study of Amazigh in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (266) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Hassan Belhiah ◽  
Mohamed Majdoubi ◽  
Mouna Safwate
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Language Revitalization ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractGiven the pivotal role mass media play in effecting political and social change, they can also contribute to the revitalization of an endangered or minoritized language if language policies are effectively implemented. Drawing on official documents regarding Amazigh broadcasting on Moroccan public television and interviews with Amazigh experts and media practitioners, this study scrutinizes the efforts exerted to revitalize Amazigh, the language of pre-Arab populations in North Africa. The results of the study indicate that while the status of Amazigh has changed drastically in the last two decades, its dissemination in public television is hampered by political, economic, and logistic forces. The study has implications for the areas of language revitalization, language shift reversal, language policy, and language planning.

scholarly journals Program Coordination and Synergy of the Foreign Supervision Team (Tim Pora) in Cianjur Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-523
Author(s):  
Rachmat Rachmat
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Joint Operation ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Joint Operations ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

This study aims to find (identify) and determine problems related to the arrival of foreigners in Cianjur Regency. Furthermore, this research wants to set goals to be achieved. Of course, with the formation of the Pora Team, we want cooperation and coordination as well as synergy between related agencies. Third, the purpose of this study was to determine the communication strategy of the Pora Team in order to deal with the presence and activities of foreigners in the Cianjur Regency area. This study uses a qualitative approach with a post-positivistic paradigm. The method used is a case study. The models used are Assifi and French models. The result of this research is that the Pora Team analyzed various cases related to foreigners who came to Indonesia, especially Cianjur. The Sukabumi Class II Immigration Office released data on the number of Foreign Citizens (WNA) holding Permanent Stay Permit Cards (KITAP) who reside and have activities in Sukabumi and Cianjur. Apart from mixed marriages, not a few foreigners have the status of workers. There are 65 foreigners holding KITAP Cianjur Regency. The purpose of establishing the Pora Team is to supervise foreigners who come to Cianjur Regency, as an effort to prevent violations of regulations by foreigners in Cianjur Regency. The Pora Team's strategy-setting activities cover a variety of activities. These activities are in the form of (1) audience analysis, (2) selecting media, (3) developing messages, (4) implementing programs, (5) conducting monitoring and evaluation. The audience analysis in this case is foreigners. These foreigners have various kinds of arrival purposes such as tourism, socio-cultural visits, government, social and even for work. The Pora team in carrying out their duties collaborates with the Media. The Pora team coordinates with various government organizations. In carrying out its programs, apart from carrying out the duties and functions of the Pora Team, it can also carry out joint operations if needed. In conducting monitoring and evaluation, the results of joint operations are reported directly in writing. The report is submitted to the Chairman of the Pora Team no later than 7 (seven) days from the time the joint operation was carried out. The Pora team also has a map of the supervision of foreigners, solving problems of the existence and activities of foreigners, implementing and regulating relations and cooperation in the framework of controlling foreigners, preparing joint operation plans that are special or incidental in nature.

scholarly journals Representations of British Chinese Identities and British Television Drama: Mapping the Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Simone Knox
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
The Uk

While important scholarship exists on the television representations of Asian American identities, research in the UK has been focused on African Caribbean and South Asian identities. Very little scholarly attention has been paid to televisual representations of British Chinese identities, despite the British Chinese constituting one of the larger and fastest growing ethnic minority groups within contemporary Britain. Informed by an understanding of the complexity of the term ‘British Chinese’, this article explores the representation of British Chinese identities in British television drama. Despite the long-standing absence and invisibility of such identities in British television, as perceived within the popular imagination in Britain and in British Chinese discourses, the article shows that a larger number of British Chinese actors have found notable employment in British television than is commonly acknowledged or remembered within the popular imagination. The article draws on a database that deploys a range of research, including archive research at the BFI Reuben Library, to map the presence of British Chinese actors in British television drama since 1945. Through this historiographic focus, the article identifies some of the most significant trends in representations of British Chinese identities in British television drama. It then illustrates and provides more specific texture to these broader patterns through the close textual analysis of a case study, the BBC1 flagship series Sherlock. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary period which has seen an influx of British Chinese actors into British television drama as well as high-profile diversity campaigning within Britain.

Administrative Law Values and National Security Functions

2020 ◽  
pp. 634-655
Author(s):  
Laura A. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Executive Discretion ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on the case of extraterritorial military detention by the US and the UK—two countries that quickly deployed and then repeatedly refined their detention policies during the nearly two decades following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Military detention is arguably one of the quintessential national security functions where deference to executive discretion is strongest. As such, it is an activity that differs markedly from the types of practices that form the core work of many domestic administrative agencies, and administrative law scholarship tends to ignore the national security domain. Yet even here, in a realm seemingly so insulated from administrative law norms, agencies in both the US and the UK have implemented a variety of administrative rules and procedures, as well as non-judicial administrative tribunals to assess the status of detainees. Although the US and the UK followed different pathways, both countries have ultimately come to embrace administrative law frameworks for military detention. And both countries have gradually moved to protect, at least to a limited extent, the core administrative law values of rationality, transparency, participation, and procedural protection even as they have rejected fully judicialized detention processes. This comparative case study therefore illustrates the significance of administrative law values in the area of national security and points toward the need for further scholarship at the intersection of national security law and administrative law.

Case studies of interests at play

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Gillies ◽  
Rosalind Edwards ◽  
Nicola Horsley
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Network Position ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Family Nurse Partnership

This chapter builds on the review of the interests at play in the early intervention field and examines them through case studies of three high-profile initiatives. The first case study focuses on the Wave Trust, a campaigning and policy advocate organisation that has been highly influential politically in promoting brain-based early intervention in the UK. It claims a ‘business centred’ approach to breaking damaging intergenerational family cycles of abuse and violence. The second case study subjects the origins, delivery, and evidence claims of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) early intervention programme to scrutiny. The third case study explores the nodal network position of Parent Infant Partnership UK, which advocates for an emphasis on attachment between primary caregivers and babies.

Campaigning for Older People: A Case Study Approach to the Input of Voluntary and Community Organisations in the Policy Process

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Community Organisations ◽  
The Uk

Third sector or civil society organisations are seen by many as important routes through which citizens contribute to the development and implementation of public policy and to the democratic process. This contribution has been acknowledged in the UK in the requirement for their participation across a range of new government policies and programmes. But how far are these claims justified? This paper explores, through a case study approach focusing on issues relating to older people, how voluntary and community organisations input to the policy process. It argues for a clearer balance between state and voluntary sector, based around ‘creative tension’.

scholarly journals Clinical impact of high-profile animal-based research reported in the UK national press

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. e100039
Author(s):  
Jarrod Bailey ◽  
Michael Balls
Keyword(s):  
Animal Research ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Preclinical Research ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Uk

ObjectivesWe evaluated animal-based biomedical ‘breakthroughs’ reported in the UK national press in 1995 (25 years prior to the conclusion of this study). Based on evidence of overspeculative reporting of biomedical research in other areas (eg, press releases and scientific papers), we specifically examined animal research in the media, asking, ‘In a given year, what proportion of animal research “breakthroughs”’ published in the UK national press had translated, more than 20 years later, to approved interventions?’MethodsWe searched the Nexis media database (LexisNexis.com) for animal-based biomedical reports in the UK national press. The only restrictions were that the intervention should be specific, such as a named drug, gene, biomedical pathway, to facilitate follow-up, and that there should be claims of some clinical promise.Main outcome measuresWere any interventions approved for human use? If so, when and by which agency? If not, why, and how far did development proceed? Were any other, directly related interventions approved? Did any of the reports overstate human relevance?ResultsOverspeculation and exaggeration of human relevance was evident in all the articles examined. Of 27 unique published ‘breakthroughs’, only one had clearly resulted in human benefit. Twenty were classified as failures, three were inconclusive and three were partially successful.ConclusionsThe results of animal-based preclinical research studies are commonly overstated in media reports, to prematurely imply often-imminent ‘breakthroughs’ relevant to human medicine.

scholarly journals Defamation Laws and Practice in the Age of Internet in Albania

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Leka
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Judicial Corruption ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

The picture of recent legal developments concerning defamation in Albania is mixed. On the one hand, several criminal defamation and insult statuteshave been abolishedsince 2012, following strong lobbying of human rights organizations. On the other, the application of criminal defamation laws has not stopped, while government officials and other high profile persons have discovered the power of civil defamation claims. Faced with intense criticism, the government has tried to re-introduce the abolished criminal defamation laws and has faced the same strong opposition and international outcry. In the meantime, defamation claims or threats thereof are routinely being used against the media or against the political opponent for the only purposes of creating tension and diffusing the attention of the public. The vagueness of the laws and the inconsistencies of judicial interpretation, helped in no little measure by judicial corruption and the political control of the judiciary, have widened the gap between constitutional and international guarantees of the freedom of speech and the actual enforcement of those guarantees. This article will briefly expose the history of defamation laws in Albania, the difficulties of their application, and the status of affairs concerning defamation laws and claims.

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