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Exploring the association between economic democracy and income inequality
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Care, public services and the importance of integrated local public ownership
The importance of integrated local public ownership and control of services was highlighted during the COVID Pandemic where some of the world’s wealthier countries – notably the US and UK – experienced some of the worst infection and mortality rates.1 Research has suggested that a lack of local public capacity, as a result of decades of cuts to public services and the reduction of trained staff, often driven by austerity policies, hampered initial efforts to combat the spread of COVID.
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany
Get full access to this article View all access and purchase options for this article. References Angelo H, Wachsmuth D (2020) Why does everyone think cities can save the planet? Urban Studies 57(11): 2201–2221. Ashton P, Doussard M, Weber R (2016) Reconstituting the state: City powers and exposures in Chicago’s infrastructure leases. Urban Studies 53(7): 1384–1400.
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile
Introduction The emergence of ‘new municipalism’ (hereafter NM) as a phenomenon and concept is making an important contribution to current debates on progressive urban movements emerging out of neoliberal crises in Europe and beyond. Key features of this nascent conceptualisation of city-based politics include strategising for the transformation of the social relations through forms of participatory and economic democracy at the local scale (Thompson, 2021).
Municipalities can overcome Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction
Europe’s municipalities are developing social and ecological solutions to the energy crisis. They need more power to their elbows. Europe’s fossil-fuel addiction is painfully clear amid the global energy crisis and the unfolding horrors in Ukraine. Yet municipalities across the continent have great potential to tackle climate change and energy dependencies. Using this potential will however require funds, power and know-how—to put the interests of residents over corporate revenues.
Budget 2021: experts react
Rishi Sunak has unveiled his second budget as UK chancellor a year into the coronavirus pandemic and during the worst economic collapse in centuries. Our panel of experts offer their views on what he has announced. We’ll keep adding updates as the day goes on, and you can also follow @ConversationUK on Twitter.
Economic democracy: why handing power back to the people will fix our broken system
Behind the superficial froth of the UK election campaign, the competing parties are offering fundamentally different visions of the economy, who controls it and who benefits from it. The Conservatives and, to some extent, the Liberal Democrats, despite their differences on Brexit, offer versions of the status quo, with an economy dominated and driven by private interests.
Economic democracy: why handing power back to the people will fix our broken system
Behind the superficial froth of the UK election campaign, the competing parties are offering fundamentally different visions of the economy, who controls it and who benefits from it. The Conservatives and, to some extent, the Liberal Democrats, despite their differences on Brexit, offer versions of the status quo, with an economy dominated and driven by private interests.
The Index of Systemic Trends
Introduction: Framing the long crisis For many Americans, the first years of the Trump presidency have brought into focus some of the large-scale challenges facing the country: the early onset of climate change (and intensifying natural disasters such as fires, floods, and hurricanes), enduring legacies of structural racism and white supremacy, endemic violence (including, particularly, against women) and mass murders, the deliberate degradation of democratic institutions and norms (from both...
Polling on key elements of the democratic economy
YouGov in March 2019 conducted this poll for The Democracy Collaborative on several key questions related to aspects of the democratic economy, including support for worker ownership, public enterprises and democratic control over key economic activities. On this page are some highlights of that poll. Click here for a special report on our polling about worker ownership. A total of 1,132 registered voters were surveyed.
linking academia, business and industry through research
Home Full-text access for editors A tale of two nationalisations: experiences of post 1945 public ownership in the UK and France compared by Andrew Cumbers International Journal of Public Policy (IJPP), Vol. 15, No. 1/2, 2019 Abstract: As public ownership comes back into fashion following the failings and growing contradictions of neoliberal processes of marketisation and privatisation, it is important to learn the lessons for public policy from earlier processes of nationalisation.
A new definition of economic democracy - and what it means for inequality
There is growing concern about the increased alienation felt by many people in response to processes of globalisation, the rejection of mainstream policy positions – as evidenced by the Brexit vote – but also of the rise of far-right extremism across the world more generally. At root, these developments reflect a loss of economic control and power experienced by many over their lives, and a sense of marginalisation from political and economic elites.
Fabian Society " In safe hands
One of the most significant mistakes made by the centre left in the 1990s was to accede to the new right’s evisceration of the public realm. Under the guise of coming to terms with globalisation and the limits to ‘socialism in one country’, European social democrats willingly embraced privatisation policies. In France, Germany and Italy, social democrats of various stripes sold off over £150bn of public assets between 1993 and 1998.
Index of economic marginalisation helps explain Trump, Brexit and alt.right - RSA
If 2016 brought Brexit, Donald Trump and a backlash against cosmopolitan visions of globalisation and society, the great fear for 2017 is further shocks from right-wing populists like Geert Wilders in Holland and Marine Le Pen in France. A new mood of intolerance, xenophobia and protectionist economics seems to be in the air.
Introducing Debates in urban studies
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How Marginalization Helps Explain The Political Upheaval In The US And UK
If 2016 brought Brexit, Donald Trump and a backlash against cosmopolitan visions of globalisation and society, the great fear for 2017 is further shocks from right-wing populists like Geert Wilders in Holland and Marine Le Pen in France. A new mood of intolerance, xenophobia and protectionist economics seems to be in the air.
New index of economic marginalisation explains Trump, Brexit and alt.right
If 2016 brought Brexit, and a backlash against cosmopolitan visions of and society, the great fear for 2017 is further shocks from right-wing populists like Geert Wilders in and Marine Le Pen in France. A new mood of intolerance, and protectionist economics seems to be in the air. In a world of zero-hour contracts, Uber, Deliveroo and the gig economy, access to decent work and a sustainable family income remains the main fault line between the winners and losers from globalisation.
New index of economic marginalisation helps explain Trump, Brexit and alt.right
If 2016 brought Brexit, Donald Trump and a backlash against cosmopolitan visions of globalisation and society, the great fear for 2017 is further shocks from right-wing populists like Geert Wilders in Holland and Marine Le Pen in France. A new mood of intolerance, xenophobia and protectionist economics seems to be in the air.
Could we renationalise UK's railways?
Privatisation, when introduced to the railways in 1996, was intended to bring new private investment, and expertise, reduce costs and make the sector more efficient. Rather than providing new capital, privatisation has created opportunities for private companies to extract value from public services. While subsidies to private companies has increased, investment in new rolling stock has actually fallen, and is currently 60% less than the five-year period prior to rail privatisation.
Institutions, Power and Space
Economic geographers have drawn upon concepts from institutional economics and economic sociology in recent years to understand processes of regional development within an increasingly globalized economy. In this paper, we assess the influence of this institutional `turn' in economic geography and regional development studies. Two interrelated themes provide the focus of our critique.
The BBC's biggest problem? The public has no control over it
To the relief of many in the BBC, the proposals in the government’s white paper appear relatively modest compared to what many expected. If voices on the right had their way, the government would have scrapped the licence fee and effectively ended the BBC’s special status as a public broadcasting service with state funding. Instead it might have ended up as a subscription-based competitor to Netflix.
Corbyn public ownership push reflects what is happening all round the world
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership victory has helped to push state ownership back to the forefront of public policy debate in the UK. His belief in public ownership in the banking sector has stoked the question of whether it could play a vital role in funding infrastructure projects and innovation in the manufacturing sector.
The Single European Market and the new regulatory regime in the food sector: the impact on small and medium‐sized manufacturing firms
To read the full version of this content please select one of the options below: Please note you do not have access to teaching notes Roger Leigh (Readers at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development, Middlesex University, Enfield, UK.) David Smallbone (Readers at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development, Middlesex University, Enfield, UK.) Abstract Examines the impact of the Single European Market on small and medium‐sized firms (SMEs) in the food sector.
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