Do Social Policies and Political Context Matter for Health in the United Kingdom?

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Tim Doran ◽  
Margaret Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The United Kingdom

Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community‑based setting

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Arshad Isakjee
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Heath Community ◽  
Turn Over ◽  
Different Parts

Social policies in the United Kingdom have undergone a ‘community turn’ over the last two decades, with emphasis increasingly on ‘community cohesion’ rather than ‘social disadvantage’ and exclusion. Whilst academics have explored this trend, there is less reflective work on academic community-based practice that operates on the same terrain. This chapter offers critical self-reflection of our academic practice within the community budgeting and commissioning phase in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Reflecting on the processes of bringing different parts of the Balsall Heath community together for the project, we consider not just the challenges of ‘constructing community’ in this way, but also, the logics that underpin it.

scholarly journals “We Will Build a Great Wall”: Domination, Criminalization, and Expatriation in Trump Campaign and Rally Speeches

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jace Valcore ◽  
Jess Rodgers ◽  
Nicole L. Asquith
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Great Wall

Given the import and impact of political campaign promises, this study systematically analyzed Donald Trump’s campaign and rally speeches using a typology of verbal-textual hostility (V.T.H.) developed by Asquith (2013) from criminal hate incidents in the United Kingdom. Trump used all forms of V.T.H. previously identified by Asquith, except for sexualization, and new forms that may be specific to the political context. Analysis of speeches from 2015–2018 revealed that expatriation, criminalization, and domination were the most frequently used forms of V.T.H. deployed by Trump, which we consider in relation to the historical, social, and political context and consequences.

Do Social Policies and Political Context Matter for Health in the United Kingdom?

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Doran ◽  
Margaret Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Local Council ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Analyses

This U.K. case study combines lessons from historical assessments with new empirical analyses of trends over the last decade to inform an appraisal of the impact of social actions on health. The empirical analyses examine life expectancy in the 354 local government councils in England by first identifying those that have better or worse health than expected from their socioeconomic profile, and then selecting paired sets of “overachievers” and “underachievers” for more in-depth analysis. The findings taken as a whole provide evidence that social policies and political context do indeed matter for health. The historical material from the first industrial revolution, in particular, provides some of the most compelling evidence for this proposition. The empirical analyses over the last decade found a very powerful inverse association: the more deprived the local council, the lower the life expectancy of the population within that locality. However, even for the same level of deprivation and socioeconomic characteristics, some councils were doing much better than others in terms of health: for example, more than three years difference in life expectancy for carefully matched “urban fringe” councils. The article then examines the councils' political makeup and hence their likely policy perspective.

scholarly journals The importance of poverty early in childhood

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg J Duncan ◽  
Katherine Magnuson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
National Income ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The United Kingdom

Using a poverty line set at 60% of New Zealand’s median national income, nearly one in five New Zealand children (19%) was poor in 2011 (Figure 1, based on Perry, 2012). This poverty rate is considerably less than that of the United States and Canada, similar to that of Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, and much greater that in Scandinavian countries. These rates are far from immutable; New Zealand’s child poverty rate was much higher in 2004 before social policies were enacted which focused, in part, on the country’s child poverty problem. 

scholarly journals How Do Populist Voters Rate Their Political Leaders? Comparing Citizen Assessments in Three Jurisdictions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Seijts ◽  
Cristine De Clercy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Leader Characteristics

Drawing from the field of management studies, we explore how a sample of voters in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom use a leader character framework to judge political leadership. We ask, how do voters actually assess the character of their current leaders? And, in light of the populist zeitgeist, do people who hold a populist attitude differ markedly in how they judge the character of political leaders? Our results show that voters generally consider character important. However, voters who lean toward populism believe character matters less in political leadership than individuals who scored low on the populism indicator. This durable difference merits more exploration in a political context marked by populism. Our findings about the factors that influence vote choice contribute to this conversation and to extant research that reports that some voters pay greater attention to leader characteristics than do others.

scholarly journals EP Elections as a Tool for Migrant Political Participation

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6(63)) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kułakowska
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Optimal Arrangement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Normative Justification

The paper focuses on the European Parliament (EP) elections seen as a tool for migrant political participation. When migrating for work, EU migrants do not always consider naturalization as an optimal arrangement, being satisfied with rights connected with their EU citizenship. Therefore, in terms of voting strategies, they often limit their voting rights to those connected with the institutions of their country of birth. However, the particular political context might create additional motivation for participation in EP elections. I would argue that such a particular situation did occur in the United Kingdom in May 2019, when many EU migrants decided to exercise their right to vote in EP elections. Furthermore, many of them were then denied this right, which has been attributed by some to the lack of efficiency on part of British institutions. The paper will look at the institution of the European Parliament elections, analyzing both the normative justification of the formal arrangements and the empirical dimension of 2019 EP Elections in the United Kingdom in the context of the ongoing processes of Brexit.

scholarly journals The resistance of the four European worlds of welfare from the birth of the euro

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-291
Author(s):  
ANTÓN LOSADA ◽  
CRISTINA ARES
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Welfare Expenditure

ABSTRACT This article compares parliamentary preferences on welfare expenditure in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2013. The analysis is focused on the relationship between the type of welfare regime and the programmatic offer on the volume of social spending. Two indexes were calculated: social spending and social retrenchment. Upon emergence from the recession, an increasingly homogeneous conception is detected of social policies as being subordinated to economic policies; convergence has occurred within each of the worlds of welfare, maintaining the variation among them found prior to the Crisis.

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