scholarly journals Evolving Conceptualisations of Internationalism in the UK Parliament: Collocation Analyses from the League to Brexit

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Pasi Ihalainen ◽  
Aleksi Sahala
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
General View ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Level Analysis

This chapter explores a historical distant reading strategy of British Parliamentary discourse. It uses historical collocation analyses of ‘internationalism’ and the ‘international’ in the British Hansard Corpus and a selection of Commons and Lords debates concerning British membership in international organisations as it relates to the League of Nations, United Nations, Council of Europe, EEC and Brexit. The collocates that were deemed to be politically significant are grouped in 13 loose semantic fields. This macro-level analysis of long-term trends of discourse is supplemented with an analysis of the said key debates in their historical contexts, including comparisons between the two Houses, and with additional micro-level analyses of contextualised individual speeches in which politicians defined ‘internationalism’ by using the concepts in political action. This provides one general view on the historical evolvement of the discourse on internationalism over the past hundred years.

11. The United Kingdom: Towards a Parting of the Ways

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Anand Menon ◽  
Luigi Scazzieri
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the history of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European integration process. The chapter dissects the long-term trends in public opinion and the more contingent, short-term factors that led to the referendum vote to leave the European Union. The UK was a late joiner and therefore unable to shape the early institutional development of the EEC. British political parties and public opinion were always ambiguous about membership and increasingly Eurosceptic from the early 1990s. Yet the UK had a significant impact on the EU’s development, in the development of the single market programme and eastward enlargement. If Brexit goes through, Britain will nevertheless maintain relations with the EU in all policy areas from agriculture to energy and foreign policy. Europeanization will remain a useful theoretical tool to analyse EU–UK relations even if the UK leaves the Union.

Bicycle mode share in China: a city-level analysis of long term trends

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhibin Li ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Haoyang Ding
Keyword(s):  
Mode Share ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Supplementary material to "Drivers for spatial, temporal and long-term trends in atmospheric ammonia and ammonium in the UK"

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuk S. Tang ◽  
Christine F. Braban ◽  
Ulrike Dragosits ◽  
Anthony J. Dore ◽  
Ivan Simmons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Ammonia ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
The Uk

Transforming Conflict: A Peacebuilding Approach for an Intergroup Conflict in a Local Congregation

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Guichun Jun
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Local Congregation ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Urban Congregation ◽  
Culture Of Peace ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Uk

An intergroup conflict based on fundamental incompatibilities such as different group identity and values is the highest and the unhealthiest level of conflict in a local congregation setting. In this case, a peacebuilding process is required in order to transform the conflict situation to achieve sustainable peace. Different from peacemaking and peacekeeping, peacebuilding takes a longer period to transform the cultural, social and structural problems on the macro level as well as to change behaviours, perceptions and perspectives of individuals on the micro level. This article attempts to disclose the characteristics of intergroup conflict in an urban congregation in the UK to describe its serious intensity by analysing its nature and scale. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the conflict transformation approach, as a long-term peacebuilding process, can be used effectively not only to alleviate intergroup conflict but also to eventually promote rehabilitation and reintegration through fostering a culture of peace.

scholarly journals Regional characteristics of building supply in a newly developed city in Japan

Dela ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 495-504
Author(s):  
Jun Tsutsumi
Keyword(s):  
Growth Process ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Analysis

In this study the author undertook a micro-level analysis of the relationship between land-ownership change and the growth process of Sapporo city. The most important questions addressed by this paper are: Why the process occurred?; When did it occur?; Where did it take place?; Who was responsible?; and, How was it conducted? The author analyzed the long-term process of building supply and revealed how many renovation cases were identi-fied that were brought about by newly advanced land purchasers, and how many cases were brought about by original land-owners without land-ownership change.

scholarly journals A systematic assessment of drought termination in the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Parry ◽  
R. L. Wilby ◽  
C. Prudhomme ◽  
P. J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Termination Phase ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Thames River

Abstract. Drought termination can be associated with dramatic transitions from drought to storms and flooding, and this is certainly true for recent events in the United Kingdom (UK). Attention devoted to these newsworthy and memorable events may be at the expense of drought terminations that proceed gradually and pose a different set of challenges for water resource managers. This paper defines drought termination as a phase of drought in its own right and makes the case for a more systematic approach to its identification and characterisation, applying an objective approach to detect drought terminations in observed river flow records for 52 catchments. The resulting archive of 459 drought terminations provides an unprecedented historical perspective on drought termination in the UK. Nationally- and regionally-coherent drought termination events are identifiable, although drought termination characteristics vary both between and within major episodes. Contrasting drought termination events in 1995--1998 and 2009--2012 are described in greater depth. The dataset is also used to assess potential linkages between metrics of drought termination characteristics and catchment properties. The duration of drought termination is moderately negatively correlated with elevation and catchment average rainfall, suggesting that wetter catchments in upland areas of the UK tend to experience shorter drought terminations. More urbanised catchments have a tendency for gradual drought terminations, contrary to perceptions of flashy hydrological response in these areas, although this may also be related to the type of catchments typical of lowland England. Potential linkages are found between both the duration and rate of drought termination and the duration of the preceding drought development phase, which may have important implications for water resources management during a drought. The dataset helps to place individual events within a long-term context. The drought termination phase in 2009--2012 was, at the time, regarded as exceptional in terms of magnitude and spatial footprint but the Thames river flow record reveals comparable events before 1930. Hence, the approach adopted and the chronologies of drought termination enable objective intercomparison of events. The dataset may in due course provide a basis for better understanding the drivers, long-term trends in occurrence and characteristics, and impacts of historical and contemporary drought termination events.

scholarly journals The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics: What Is It, What Do We Know, and What Is Yet to Be Known?

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 499-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Kashima ◽  
Paul G. Bain ◽  
Amy Perfors
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Over Time

The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation, maintenance, and transformation of culture over time. This article maps out the terrain, reviews the existing literature, and points out potential future directions of this research. It is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on micro-cultural dynamics, which refers to the social and psychological processes that contribute to the dissemination and retention of cultural information. The second part, on micro–macro dynamics, investigates how micro-level processes give rise to macro-cultural dynamics. The third part focuses on macro-cultural dynamics, referring to the distribution and long-term trends involving cultural information in a population, which in turn enable and constrain the micro-level processes. We conclude the review with a consideration of future directions, suggesting behavior change research as translational research on cultural dynamics.

The Time Economy of Parenting

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gray
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Parental Employment ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Childcare Time ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Uk

This paper explores how the UK Time Use Survey (UKTUS), together with the author's qualitative interviews and focus groups with London parents, can inform current policy debates about childcare and parental employment. It also refers to the international literature about long-term trends in parental childcare time. It addresses four key questions about time use and parenting, which have implications for theorisation of the ‘gender contract’ regarding childcare and for our understanding of the gendered distribution of time between care, work and leisure in two-parent families. How is total parenting time affected by parents’ work hours? How do the long work weeks of British fathers affect their capacity to share childcare with mothers? Would childcare time rise if work hours were more equally distributed between women and men? This invokes a discussion of how far childcare is really transferable between parents (or can be delegated to external carers); to what extent is it ‘work’ or a relational activity?

scholarly journals Drivers for spatial, temporal and long-term trends in atmospheric ammonia and ammonium in the UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuk S. Tang ◽  
Christine F. Braban ◽  
Ulrike Dragosits ◽  
Anthony J. Dore ◽  
Ivan Simmons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Atmospheric Ammonia ◽  
Remote Sites ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Particulate Ammonium

Abstract. A unique long-term dataset from the UK National Ammonia Monitoring Network (NAMN) is used here to assess spatial, seasonal and long-term variability in atmospheric ammonia (NH3: 1998–2014) and particulate ammonium (NH4+: 1999–2014) across the UK. Extensive spatial heterogeneity in NH3 concentrations is observed, with lowest annual mean concentrations at remote sites (

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