State-Level Representation versus Community Cohesion: Competing Influences on Nepali Religious Associations in the United Kingdom

In this article, we explore the electoral dynamics of multi-level political systems for the case of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales) through a comparison with multi-level voting behaviour in Germany, Spain and Canada. The analysis suggests that sub-state elections can be `second order' in relation to state-wide elections, but that this `second orderness' is reduced when more powers are decentralized to the sub-state level (and, thus, more is at stake in sub-state elections), and if sub-state identities and parties are stronger. Consequently, elections in Scotland and Wales are unlikely to be or become only `second order' to Westminster elections, and British state-wide parties will continue to face challenges and pressures to adapt their organizations and programmes to the devolution of the British state.

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Multiculturalism is Dead: Long Live Community Cohesion? A Case Study of an Educational Methodology to Empower Young People as Global Citizens

Research in Comparative and International Education ◽

10.2304/rcie.2008.3.1.36 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 36-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Hilary Cremin ◽

Paul Warwick

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Young People ◽

Educational Outcome ◽

Community Cohesion ◽

Global Citizens ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Diverse Community ◽

The Uk ◽

College Setting

This article explores the theme of the ‘two faces of education’ by reviewing new policy directives in the United Kingdom to strengthen community cohesion in schools and their communities. These directives have resulted from growing disaffection with the aims and outcomes of multiculturalism. This article will investigate the ways in which this disaffection has resulted in both ‘quick fix’ politicised solutions, and in more genuine attempts to support young people to develop positive relationships with people from different ethnic backgrounds. It will suggest that whilst inequalities of educational outcome for different ethnic groups persist, schools will continue to be part of the problem, hence the second link with the theme of two (or more?) faces of education. In order to become part of the solution, schools internationally will need to adopt much more creative and complex approaches to the reduction of racism and inequality than those currently being proposed by the UK Government. A case study of an approach that has been used in many countries of the world, including Brazil and Canada, to engage young people in open dialogue, and to develop empathy and critical thinking is provided. The case study from a multi-ethnic college setting within the Midlands, United Kingdom, will illustrate how young people can be enskilled and empowered to consider key debates that have relevance to their lives as global citizens living in a culturally diverse community.

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National festivals, the state and ‘protestant ascendancy’ in Ireland, 1790–1829

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021121400034015 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 24 (93) ◽

pp. 30-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jacqueline R. Hill

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Political Culture ◽

State Level ◽

The State ◽

Republic Of Ireland ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

National Symbols ◽

The Republic ◽

Single Set

One indication of Ireland's divided political culture is that there is no general agreement between most catholics and most protestants on a single set of national symbols. To take the case of a national festival, in the Republic of Ireland, where ninety-four per cent of the population is catholic, St Patrick's day (17 March) is celebrated at the popular level, the state level, and is a bank holiday. In Northern Ireland too St Patrick's day is celebrated, but chiefly by catholics (thirty-one per cent of the population), while the festival associated with the majority protestant population is Orangemen's day (12 July) when William III's victory at the battle of the Boyne(l July 1690 O.S.) is commemorated. Both these festivals are kept as bank holidays in Northern Ireland (though not in the rest of the United Kingdom); the Republic of Ireland, however, extends no recognition to 12 July.

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Art Loans and Immunity from Seizure in the United States and the United Kingdom

International Journal of Cultural Property ◽

10.1017/s0940739110000147 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 335-359 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lawrence M. Kaye

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

World War Ii ◽

State Level ◽

The United States ◽

Good Faith ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

World War ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The U.S

AbstractSome countries' laws favoring good-faith purchasers over the victims of theft make it difficult to recover stolen artworks. Nonetheless, the loan of such artworks for exhibition abroad may create opportunities to utilize the host country's legal system for recovery. This article examines representative cases illustrating legal options available to plaintiffs in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the United States, laws at the federal and state level may prevent the seizure of artworks loaned for temporary exhibition, but recent cases show that immunity is not absolute and that such artworks may be subject to suit in the United States. The United Kingdom recently enacted a similar law. That law, however, has been criticized, and future interpretations by U.K. courts will be needed before its true affect can be seen. The article also discusses the backgrounds against which the U.S. and U.K. laws were enacted, illustrating the link between the laws and Russian concerns about protecting cultural artifacts that were nationalized after the Russian Revolution or taken by Soviet troops during World War II.

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Horizontal and Vertical Attention Dynamics

Comparative Policy Agendas ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198835332.003.0032 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 334-358

Author(s):

Gerard Breeman ◽

Arco Timmermans

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

The Netherlands ◽

State Level ◽

The Political ◽

The European Union ◽

Policy Issues ◽

Eu Member States ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Policy Agendas ◽

Issue Competition

This chapter presents an empirical analysis of rises and falls in attention to environmental issues on the political agendas of four EU member states (Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and show how the pattern is affected by a multilevel dynamic and an issue competition dynamic with other policy issues. European environmental policymaking is a multilevel game and thus we study and link policy agendas at the EU member state level with the European Union level. The attention to the environment, however, is also seriously affected by issue competition dynamics with other topics—especially with the economy. We conclude that political attention for environmental policies is sensitive to cyclic attention patterns, and that attention to the environment in the Netherlands and Denmark is more affected by the issue-competition dynamic, whereas in Spain and the United Kingdom more by the multilevel dynamic.

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Brexit and the Challenges of a ‘Post-Sovereign’ Legal Landscape

The Foundations and Future of Public Law ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198845249.003.0019 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 381-396

Author(s):

Sionaidh Douglas Scott

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Legal Theory ◽

State Level ◽

The State ◽

Legal Order ◽

Constitutional Theory ◽

Eu Law ◽

The European Union ◽

The United Kingdom

This chapter explores issues of law and governance at state level, and at levels above and below the state. It focuses on the European Union as a striking example of supranational law, as well as on the issue of sovereignty in a post-Brexit world. It argues that neither a retreat into a nostalgic Brexiter vision of sovereignty, nor the EU’s ‘new legal order’ can provide conclusive sovereignty and constitutional arrangements, because both systems are ‘unsettled’ (Neil Walker’s term). Neither law, constitutional theory, nor legal theory has settled the issue of sovereignty. EU law overlaps and intermingles with national law. The United Kingdom will lack constitutional stability, whether it remains in the European Union or not.

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