The priorities of the Coalition and Conservative government leaders

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Carl Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Deficit Reduction ◽  
Eu Referendum

This chapter focuses on the overarching economic and social policy priorities set by the leaders of the Coalition and Conservative-led Governments. The prioritisation of deficit reduction, to be achieved primarily through severe cuts to public spending, had major implications for all areas of social policy. The chapter considers how, in this context, promises made by the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron to improve social justice, and by the Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to address social mobility, were not adhered to. This includes a discussion of Coalition and Conservative policies on welfare reform that had major implications for children and families. The chapter also highlights the further downgrading of social policy after the EU referendum, as the task of delivering Brexit came to dominate the public policy agenda.

Japan's Womenomics Diplomacy: Fighting Stigma and Constructing ODA Leadership on Gender Equality

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-513
Author(s):  
LIV COLEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

AbstractUnder conservative Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, Japan has embarked upon a high profile ‘Womenomics’ foreign policy agenda to highlight Japan's official development assistance (ODA) contributions to women's empowerment worldwide. This paper examines the puzzle of why such an avowedly conservative government would pursue a feminist foreign policy agenda. The paper finds that Japan's Womenomics diplomacy cannot be explained simply by materialist or domestic political explanations, but is best understood as a strategic campaign stemming from elite concern about Japan's national identity and esteem about its status in the world. Through Womenomics diplomacy, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs attempts to construct Japan as a leader on women's rights and gender equality in response to the twin stigmas of Japan's treatment of wartime ‘comfort women’ and perennial low rankings on international indexes of gender equality.

Rolling Back the State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The State ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Roll Back

This chapter begins with the economic crisis of the 1970s, OPEC 1 and Labour’s responses, and the broader ideological challenge presented to social democracy by the economic problems of the mid 1970s. The chapter’s second section looks at the broad growth of anti-state notions amongst a variety of elements in 1970s Britain, including academics, journalists, and think tanks, and how these notions related to the Conservative Party’s developing positions. The third section looks in a more focused fashion at the development of the ‘rolling back the state’ policy agenda as applied to public spending after 1979. The fourth section looks more broadly at the successes and failures of the attempt to roll back the state down to the end of the Conservative government in 1997. The final section looks at how far the state-shrinking agenda reflected or shaped public opinion.

Osborne's windfall to boost UK Conservatives further

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
Deficit Reduction ◽  
Spending Cuts ◽  
House Building

Significance A fiscal windfall allowed Osborne to slow the pace of deficit reduction and escape what had been expected to be a politically challenging moment for the Conservative government. Impacts Yesterday's statement will boost Osborne in his ambitions to become Conservative leader and thus prime minister before 2020. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell's quoting Mao Zedong in his response to Osborne will heighten Labour MPs' concerns about their leadership. The drive to reduce central government fiscal responsibilities is a key shift that could aggravate some centre-local government relations. Government house building pledges could aid the Conservative candidate in May's London mayoral election, where the issue is important. Economic policy risks such as interest rate rises and any need for new spending cuts appear to be shifting later in the parliamentary term.

John Smith’s Covid Messages

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-230
Author(s):  
Erika Balsom
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Press Conference ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Site ◽  
Coded Messages ◽  
The Grotesque

Since May 2020, John Smith has been at work on an episodic series called Covid Messages, made from repurposed footage of press conferences in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson briefs the public on the status of the pandemic. Through six darkly funny instalments, the artist plays with the press conference as a site of ‘coded messages’, assailing the vacancy of political speech and the grotesque manoeuvres of the Conservative government with his characteristic wit. The following conversation took place online on 17 December 2020.

Gender and Social Policy: the impact of the public expenditure cuts and reactions to them

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Edgell ◽  
Vic Duke
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractIn social policy research the gender dimension has been relatively neglected in Britain. The attempt to selectively reduce public spending is examined with reference to its objective impact on men and women using official statistics and specialist reports. In addition, on the basis of a large-scale interview survey the subjective impact of and political reactions to the cuts are analysed by gender. The main findings are that this current social policy negatively affects women as both public sector workers and consumers more than men. Political reactions to the cuts were extensive but unrelated to gender per se. However, when one controls for economic activity and related variables, gender differences in terms of both political attitudes and behaviour were insignificant compared to the contrast between the economically active and inactive. The main social policy implication is that the restructuring of the welfare state hits women first and foremost.

التأثيرات السياسية في استدامة الدين العام في موازنة العراق 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (66) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
م.م أحمد حامد جمعة ◽  
◽  
د. كمال فيلد البصري
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The Political ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Political Impact

This study clarifies the analysis of the reality of the financial policy in the budget of Iraq 2019, and that analysis is evaluated by tracking the elements of the public budget from public expenditures and public revenues, and the study focuses on the size of the political impact on the path of public spending, as well as the analysis of public spending and revenues in various sectors and sections of the public budget. This study also shows the size of the risks resulting from the continuation of the financial deficit, as well as the risks of public debt according to the indicators of its sustainability analysis within the financial and economic indicators that express the risks of public debt. The study emphasized that public spending is still based on the political decision and does not achieve the principles and objectives of the economic budget that achieve the public benefit. The necessity requires efficient spending and fair distribution in order to avoid future public debt risks and their impact on future generations

Prime Ministers and the Public

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Weller
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
The Media

Prime ministers are the key campaigners for their governments, not just in electoral campaigns, but every day and in every place. Media management has become a continuing and significant part of the prime ministers’ activities; it is a daily, indeed an hourly, pressure. Speeches have to be planned. The pressure has changed the tone and priorities of governing. It has dangers as well as benefits. Media demands have become more immediate, more continuous, and more intrusive. Prime ministers must respond. The same technical changes allow prime ministers to interact with their voters in a way that bypasses journalists and other intermediaries. They are writ large in campaigns. They are never out of mind or out of sight. Re-election is always a consideration for tactics and strategy. The public leader, the ‘rhetorical prime minister’, is shaped by the demands of the media and organized by the technological capacity.

scholarly journals Populist radical right parties, welfare policy and population health in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Rinaldi ◽  
M P M Bekker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Population Health ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The political system is an important influencing factor for population health but is often neglected in the public health literature. This scoping review uses insights from political science to explore the possible public health consequences of the rise of populist radical right (PRR) parties in Europe, with welfare state policy as a proxy. The aim is to generate hypotheses about the relationship between the PRR, political systems and public health. Methods A literature search on PubMed, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar resulted in 110 original research articles addressing 1) the relationship between the political system and welfare state policy/population health outcomes or 2) the relationship between PRR parties and welfare state policy/population health outcomes in Europe. Results The influence of political parties on population health seems to be mediated by welfare state policies. Early symptoms point towards possible negative effects of the PRR on public health, by taking a welfare chauvinist position. Despite limited literature, there are preliminary indications that the effect of PRR parties on health and welfare policy depends on vote-seeking or office-seeking strategies and may be mediated by the political system in which they act. Compromises with coalition partners, electoral institutions and the type of healthcare system can either restrain or exacerbate the effects of the PRR policy agenda. EU laws and regulations can to some extent restrict the nativist policy agenda of PRR parties. Conclusions The relationship between the PRR and welfare state policy seems to be mediated by the political system, meaning that the public health consequences will differ by country. Considering the increased popularity of populist parties in Europe and the possibly harmful consequences for public health, there is a need for further research on the link between the PRR and public health.

Moving an Evidence-Based Policy Agenda Forward: Leadership Tips From the Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leverage Point ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Improve Health

Advancing evidence-based policy change is a leadership challenge that nurses should embrace. Key tips to ensure that evidence-based policy changes are successful at the individual, community, and population levels are offered to help nurses through the change process. The public trust in the nursing profession is a leverage point that should be used to advance the use of evidence, expedite change, and improve health for students and across communities.

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