2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2021
A new experiment, called the PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) experiment, features laser induced fluo... more A new experiment, called the PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) experiment, features laser induced fluorescence diagnostics for ion measurements, Thomson scattering diagnostics for electron velocity distribution function measurements, and a microwave scattering system for turbulence measurements. PHASMA is designed to enable the direct measurement of ion and electron vdfs in space-relevant plasma phenomena including reconnection, shocks, and turbulence. To create the conditions necessary for different experimental regimes, PHASMA employs a 2 kW, steady-state helicon source capable of generating variable-density background hydrogen, helium, argon, krypton, and xenon plasmas with controllable plasma pressure (relative to the magnetic pressure), collisionality, and azimuthal flow shear. Reconnecting flux ropes arise through the merging of discharges from two pulsed plasma guns.
The British political system is in crisis but not the kind of crisis conventionally diagnosed. Th... more The British political system is in crisis but not the kind of crisis conventionally diagnosed. The state is not in some long-term terminal decline. Since its original creation in 1707, it has been reinvented by successive exercises in statecraft. The history of the state does not determine its future; on the contrary, statecraft allows scope for both different versions of our history and different routes to the future. The book is about how the future is uncertain – as is the past, or at least our understanding of it.
The Palgrave Handbook of International Development, 2016
The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wi... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP url' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.
This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of globa... more This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of global health. Such foundations, including Rockefeller and Ford, have historically played an important role in infectious disease control, providing seed finance to develop vaccines (e.g. yellow fever) and subsidies for the eradication of certain parasites (e.g. hookworm). More recently these actors have utilised their material resources to facilitate and broker strategic coalitions between civil society groups, transnational corporations, international organisations (IOs) and states in innovative policy arrangements variously known in the literature as public-private, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Partnerships, such as the GAVI Alliance, the Institute for OneWorld Health and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, to name but a few highprofile cases, have been identified as appropriate policy responses to complex, and seemingly intractable, global health threats. However while theorists and practitioners have devoted considerable attention to the implications of these instruments for health governance, focussing their attention on the quality of health outcomes as well as the normative desirability of multi-actor collaboration, there remains a relative paucity of empirical research on the role played by private philanthropic foundations in both financing partnerships and influencing global health policy. While some researchers recognise the central importance of these actors to the development of the partnership model there is a continued perception that they remain benign agents, rather than actors with considerable leverage to achieve both desirable and undesirable outcomes. This paper attempts to address this vacuum by undertaking a case study analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation's support for Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Particular attention is paid to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a PDP initiated by the Foundation which played an important role in the emergence of the model as a norm in global health governance. It is suggested that the Rockefeller Foundation's instrumental role in establishing a blueprint for PDPs, as well as convening meetings that led to the development of financing partnerships like the GAVI Alliance, enabled the Foundation to retain influence in the health sphere, despite its relative decline in assets and diminished importance in the philanthropic sector more generally.
This paper presents development and testing results of the Computer Replacement Program (CRP) for... more This paper presents development and testing results of the Computer Replacement Program (CRP) for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Joint STARS, which consists of a modified Boeing 707-300 (E-8C) developed by Northrop Grumman and Common Ground Stations developed by Motorola, provides theater commanders near real-time surveillance and attack support information on moving and stationary targets.
This article argues that because much of the scholarship examining the influence of private found... more This article argues that because much of the scholarship examining the influence of private foundations in global health governance is either neo-Gramscian or reflexively critical in orientation, undue attention has been paid to foundations' origins, affiliations and perceived biases towards bringing technological solutions to bear on problems with deep socio-political determinants, obscuring their chief functions as global governors while downplaying their agency. Such concerns are by no means new as private philanthropic influence in the governance of global health is not a new phenomenon. Drawing on examples from the Ford, Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' efforts to strengthen public health across the Global South, we argue that for over a century private foundations have been instrumental in the governance of collective action problems for two important reasons. Firstly, their stark illumination of state and market failures disproportionately affecting the world's marginalised and the potential of science-enabled innovation to address longstanding challenges has repeatedly generated the requisite political will to address, however imperfectly, global disparities. Secondly, foundations have ensured that functional governance mechanisms exist to provide public goods to the poor when changes to the structural fabric of the world order constrain the ability of other institutions mandated to perform this function.
The essence of the welfare state', wrote Wilensky in a classic study, 'is government-protected mi... more The essence of the welfare state', wrote Wilensky in a classic study, 'is government-protected minimum standards of income, nutrition, health, housing, and education, assured to every citizen'. 1 This innocent definition is, we shall see, highly contestable, but it has the merit of putting into a few words the most important characteristics of modern welfare states: that they necessarily involve some model of citizenship; that they provide a stream of services for people called citizens; and that they use public power to raise the resources for those services and to organize their provision. If there is a crisis of the welfare state it has to involve, in other words, a crisis of citizenship, or a crisis in the capacity of states to raise resources and to transform those resources into services. It is plain that much debate turns on different conceptions of citizenship, of welfare and of the state's purposes and capacities. It is less plain, but equally true, that different notions of'crisis' are also at issue. In the literature we can find at least three usages. The simplest conceives of crisis as a catastrophe caused by an external blow, like the world slump after the oil price rise of late 1973. This kind of crisis may actually have benign effects for, by dramatizing social choice, it can assist policy learning and innovation. As Offe remarks: 'Major policy innovations and breakthroughs. .. have become possible only after the respective problems were successfully dramatised as a "crisis", the urgency of which reduced opposing interests to irrelevance.' 2 Since the external environment of an institution constantly produces shocks and disturbances of varying severity, 'crisis as catastrophe' may thus be recurrent and, given appropriate management, highly creative. A more exact notion of crisis also conveys a picture of creation and change. A condition-as in medicine-is critical when it reaches a turning point. Many observers of welfare states in the 1970s thought their condition critical in exactly that sense. This kind of crisis is distinguishable from 'crisis as catastrophe' because of its very essence it must be brief, and it cannot recur: either the patient
The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with p... more The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
ABSTRACT Result of a three day workshop on neo-liberalism held at the Institute on December 1988.... more ABSTRACT Result of a three day workshop on neo-liberalism held at the Institute on December 1988. Incl. bibliographical references, index
A technology education instructor has an essential task to provide students with the proper safet... more A technology education instructor has an essential task to provide students with the proper safety policies and procedures for working with a variety of equipment and materials used in their laboratories. Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Instruction does not provide teachers with an easily accessible comprehensive safety guide. The potential lack of consistent safety policies and procedures create liability issues for both the school district and the instructor. Every day instructors deliver instruction based on a premise that helshe employs consistent safety policies that are grounded in sound judgment. The study will identify what the basis is upon which technology education teachers determine their safety practices in laboratory settings. By better understanding the basis upon which teachers make these important decisions, teachers will be able to validate their classroom safety protocols. The subjects in the study are technology education teachers who taught in public educ...
The core of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) operational Regional Air Quality Det... more The core of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) operational Regional Air Quality Deterministic Prediction System (RAQDPS) is the GEM-MACH air quality model, which consists of an on-line chemical transport model embedded within the GEM model, ECCC’s multi-scale operational weather forecast model. A new version of GEM-MACH, version 2, which is based on the next-generation version of GEM, became operational earlier this year (2016) after 4 years of development and testing. A comprehensive evaluation of the performance of GEM-MACH version 2 for a 2010 annual simulation on a 10-km North American continental grid was performed as part of this implementation effort using measurements from multiple Canadian and U.S. air-chemistry and precipitation-chemistry surface networks. One evaluation metric considered was skill in predicting annual mean values of a number of gas- and particle-phase species, including PM2.5 chemical components such as elemental carbon and crustal material. Such an analysis of time-averaged spatial fields is useful to check for systematic errors in input emissions fields, in chemical lateral boundary conditions, and in the representation of atmospheric dispersion, chemistry, and removal processes by the model. Spatial R values for NO2, O3, and PM2.5 mean annual concentrations in air for all networks were 0.84, 0.76, and 0.58, and for PM2.5 chemical components SO4, NO3, NH4, EC, OM, and CM the corresponding R values were 0.95, 0.88, 0.78, 0.77, 0.54, and 0.41. For SO 4 = , NO3 −, and NH4 + mean annual concentrations in precipitation the R values were 0.79, 0.80, and 0.92.
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Human factors in a low-gravity environment became important with the beginning of manned space fl... more Human factors in a low-gravity environment became important with the beginning of manned space flight programs. The costs and dangers associated with actual space experiments necessitated the development of reduced-gravity simulation techniques. Since parabolic flight is the only way to produce approximately the same physical conditions as orbital space flight, it is the only technique acceptable for many human factors studies. However, the shortness of periods at the desired gravity level and the high gravity levels of the pre- and post-parabola flight compromise the effectiveness of the technique. In spite of its faults, this technique has been used to produce many meaningful studies. These studies have done much to increase our limited knowledge of reduced-gravity human factors. It appears that this technique will continue to be a main source of low-gravity data, until the era of manned orbiting laboratories.
The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of he... more The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of health care programmes as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the welfare state. It explains why health care should be central to our understanding of the welfare state; summarises the present debates about the pressures on welfare states; explains how to think about the health care governance in this connection; develops a typology of 'health care states'; and shows how the experience of health care reflects, and how it departs from, the wider experience of welfare states.
In 1963 two American political scientists published the first systematic comparison of popular at... more In 1963 two American political scientists published the first systematic comparison of popular attitudes to political authority in Britain and in other Western democracies (Almond and Verba, 1963). The British, they concluded, had a uniquely balanced attitude to authority — neither too rebellious nor too acquiescent — which promoted stable democracy. They nevertheless sounded a mild note of warning, remarking, on Britain, ‘it is possible that deference to political elites can go too far’. If the British had a fault, in other words, it was that they were a little too ready to respect authority in general and government authority in particular.
This book is about money, power and policy. Money is examined in various forms. Part of the study... more This book is about money, power and policy. Money is examined in various forms. Part of the study concerns that mystical quantity the money supply which, apparently invisible to mortal man, can only be imperfectly apprehended through a variety of indirect signs.1 Some plainer senses of money are also examined: money used (up to £3,000 million) to support collapsing banks and property companies in the middle of the 1970s; money lost (in excess of £300 million) by public institutions in that crisis; more money lost (£50 million and still rising) by the commercial clearing banks in the same affair.2
The U.S. Geological Survey has collected or compiled data on select chlorinated solvents in sampl... more The U.S. Geological Survey has collected or compiled data on select chlorinated solvents in samples of ground water, source water, and drinking water. The water samples were collected during 1993–2002. Data on solvents in ground water and source water were available for the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Data on solvents in drinking water only were available for 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. The occurrence and distribution of four solvents were examined—methlyene chloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, tetrachloro- ethene, and trichloroethene. Out of 51 to 55 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) analyzed in samples, solvents were among the most frequently detected VOCs in all data sets. When data from ground water and source water were confined to 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, the detection frequencies of solvents were similar among all three data sets. Although low concentrations of solvents commonly were detected in ground water, some solvents had higher med...
An Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) emergency clinic provides important access to specialist care for p... more An Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) emergency clinic provides important access to specialist care for patients referred by General Practitioners (GPs), Emergency Departments and doctors on non-ENT hospital wards. The aim is to enable the prompt diagnosis and management of acute conditions, within an optimum environment containing appropriate clinical and staff resources. Amid concerns that an open access ENT casualty service had become overburdened we performed a four week audit of all attendances. We
Introduction and Objectives The knowledge of the seventeenth century was rapidly applied in the e... more Introduction and Objectives The knowledge of the seventeenth century was rapidly applied in the eighteenth. Within this century, the term “enlightenment” was coined from the French term “Lumieres” and Kant’s essay of 1784 Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklarung? New thoughts on disease, especially stone disease, would rise from these enlightened minds.
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2002
This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which ... more This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which here we term ‘scientific-bureaucratic medicine’) emerged within the public-policy agendas of both the United Kingdom and United States during the 1990s. In particular, we address the theoretical puzzle of how explanations of policy emergence in single countries can be reconciled with policy convergence between two countries.
2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2021
A new experiment, called the PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) experiment, features laser induced fluo... more A new experiment, called the PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) experiment, features laser induced fluorescence diagnostics for ion measurements, Thomson scattering diagnostics for electron velocity distribution function measurements, and a microwave scattering system for turbulence measurements. PHASMA is designed to enable the direct measurement of ion and electron vdfs in space-relevant plasma phenomena including reconnection, shocks, and turbulence. To create the conditions necessary for different experimental regimes, PHASMA employs a 2 kW, steady-state helicon source capable of generating variable-density background hydrogen, helium, argon, krypton, and xenon plasmas with controllable plasma pressure (relative to the magnetic pressure), collisionality, and azimuthal flow shear. Reconnecting flux ropes arise through the merging of discharges from two pulsed plasma guns.
The British political system is in crisis but not the kind of crisis conventionally diagnosed. Th... more The British political system is in crisis but not the kind of crisis conventionally diagnosed. The state is not in some long-term terminal decline. Since its original creation in 1707, it has been reinvented by successive exercises in statecraft. The history of the state does not determine its future; on the contrary, statecraft allows scope for both different versions of our history and different routes to the future. The book is about how the future is uncertain – as is the past, or at least our understanding of it.
The Palgrave Handbook of International Development, 2016
The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wi... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP url' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.
This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of globa... more This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of global health. Such foundations, including Rockefeller and Ford, have historically played an important role in infectious disease control, providing seed finance to develop vaccines (e.g. yellow fever) and subsidies for the eradication of certain parasites (e.g. hookworm). More recently these actors have utilised their material resources to facilitate and broker strategic coalitions between civil society groups, transnational corporations, international organisations (IOs) and states in innovative policy arrangements variously known in the literature as public-private, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Partnerships, such as the GAVI Alliance, the Institute for OneWorld Health and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, to name but a few highprofile cases, have been identified as appropriate policy responses to complex, and seemingly intractable, global health threats. However while theorists and practitioners have devoted considerable attention to the implications of these instruments for health governance, focussing their attention on the quality of health outcomes as well as the normative desirability of multi-actor collaboration, there remains a relative paucity of empirical research on the role played by private philanthropic foundations in both financing partnerships and influencing global health policy. While some researchers recognise the central importance of these actors to the development of the partnership model there is a continued perception that they remain benign agents, rather than actors with considerable leverage to achieve both desirable and undesirable outcomes. This paper attempts to address this vacuum by undertaking a case study analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation's support for Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Particular attention is paid to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a PDP initiated by the Foundation which played an important role in the emergence of the model as a norm in global health governance. It is suggested that the Rockefeller Foundation's instrumental role in establishing a blueprint for PDPs, as well as convening meetings that led to the development of financing partnerships like the GAVI Alliance, enabled the Foundation to retain influence in the health sphere, despite its relative decline in assets and diminished importance in the philanthropic sector more generally.
This paper presents development and testing results of the Computer Replacement Program (CRP) for... more This paper presents development and testing results of the Computer Replacement Program (CRP) for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Joint STARS, which consists of a modified Boeing 707-300 (E-8C) developed by Northrop Grumman and Common Ground Stations developed by Motorola, provides theater commanders near real-time surveillance and attack support information on moving and stationary targets.
This article argues that because much of the scholarship examining the influence of private found... more This article argues that because much of the scholarship examining the influence of private foundations in global health governance is either neo-Gramscian or reflexively critical in orientation, undue attention has been paid to foundations' origins, affiliations and perceived biases towards bringing technological solutions to bear on problems with deep socio-political determinants, obscuring their chief functions as global governors while downplaying their agency. Such concerns are by no means new as private philanthropic influence in the governance of global health is not a new phenomenon. Drawing on examples from the Ford, Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' efforts to strengthen public health across the Global South, we argue that for over a century private foundations have been instrumental in the governance of collective action problems for two important reasons. Firstly, their stark illumination of state and market failures disproportionately affecting the world's marginalised and the potential of science-enabled innovation to address longstanding challenges has repeatedly generated the requisite political will to address, however imperfectly, global disparities. Secondly, foundations have ensured that functional governance mechanisms exist to provide public goods to the poor when changes to the structural fabric of the world order constrain the ability of other institutions mandated to perform this function.
The essence of the welfare state', wrote Wilensky in a classic study, 'is government-protected mi... more The essence of the welfare state', wrote Wilensky in a classic study, 'is government-protected minimum standards of income, nutrition, health, housing, and education, assured to every citizen'. 1 This innocent definition is, we shall see, highly contestable, but it has the merit of putting into a few words the most important characteristics of modern welfare states: that they necessarily involve some model of citizenship; that they provide a stream of services for people called citizens; and that they use public power to raise the resources for those services and to organize their provision. If there is a crisis of the welfare state it has to involve, in other words, a crisis of citizenship, or a crisis in the capacity of states to raise resources and to transform those resources into services. It is plain that much debate turns on different conceptions of citizenship, of welfare and of the state's purposes and capacities. It is less plain, but equally true, that different notions of'crisis' are also at issue. In the literature we can find at least three usages. The simplest conceives of crisis as a catastrophe caused by an external blow, like the world slump after the oil price rise of late 1973. This kind of crisis may actually have benign effects for, by dramatizing social choice, it can assist policy learning and innovation. As Offe remarks: 'Major policy innovations and breakthroughs. .. have become possible only after the respective problems were successfully dramatised as a "crisis", the urgency of which reduced opposing interests to irrelevance.' 2 Since the external environment of an institution constantly produces shocks and disturbances of varying severity, 'crisis as catastrophe' may thus be recurrent and, given appropriate management, highly creative. A more exact notion of crisis also conveys a picture of creation and change. A condition-as in medicine-is critical when it reaches a turning point. Many observers of welfare states in the 1970s thought their condition critical in exactly that sense. This kind of crisis is distinguishable from 'crisis as catastrophe' because of its very essence it must be brief, and it cannot recur: either the patient
The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with p... more The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
ABSTRACT Result of a three day workshop on neo-liberalism held at the Institute on December 1988.... more ABSTRACT Result of a three day workshop on neo-liberalism held at the Institute on December 1988. Incl. bibliographical references, index
A technology education instructor has an essential task to provide students with the proper safet... more A technology education instructor has an essential task to provide students with the proper safety policies and procedures for working with a variety of equipment and materials used in their laboratories. Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Instruction does not provide teachers with an easily accessible comprehensive safety guide. The potential lack of consistent safety policies and procedures create liability issues for both the school district and the instructor. Every day instructors deliver instruction based on a premise that helshe employs consistent safety policies that are grounded in sound judgment. The study will identify what the basis is upon which technology education teachers determine their safety practices in laboratory settings. By better understanding the basis upon which teachers make these important decisions, teachers will be able to validate their classroom safety protocols. The subjects in the study are technology education teachers who taught in public educ...
The core of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) operational Regional Air Quality Det... more The core of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) operational Regional Air Quality Deterministic Prediction System (RAQDPS) is the GEM-MACH air quality model, which consists of an on-line chemical transport model embedded within the GEM model, ECCC’s multi-scale operational weather forecast model. A new version of GEM-MACH, version 2, which is based on the next-generation version of GEM, became operational earlier this year (2016) after 4 years of development and testing. A comprehensive evaluation of the performance of GEM-MACH version 2 for a 2010 annual simulation on a 10-km North American continental grid was performed as part of this implementation effort using measurements from multiple Canadian and U.S. air-chemistry and precipitation-chemistry surface networks. One evaluation metric considered was skill in predicting annual mean values of a number of gas- and particle-phase species, including PM2.5 chemical components such as elemental carbon and crustal material. Such an analysis of time-averaged spatial fields is useful to check for systematic errors in input emissions fields, in chemical lateral boundary conditions, and in the representation of atmospheric dispersion, chemistry, and removal processes by the model. Spatial R values for NO2, O3, and PM2.5 mean annual concentrations in air for all networks were 0.84, 0.76, and 0.58, and for PM2.5 chemical components SO4, NO3, NH4, EC, OM, and CM the corresponding R values were 0.95, 0.88, 0.78, 0.77, 0.54, and 0.41. For SO 4 = , NO3 −, and NH4 + mean annual concentrations in precipitation the R values were 0.79, 0.80, and 0.92.
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Human factors in a low-gravity environment became important with the beginning of manned space fl... more Human factors in a low-gravity environment became important with the beginning of manned space flight programs. The costs and dangers associated with actual space experiments necessitated the development of reduced-gravity simulation techniques. Since parabolic flight is the only way to produce approximately the same physical conditions as orbital space flight, it is the only technique acceptable for many human factors studies. However, the shortness of periods at the desired gravity level and the high gravity levels of the pre- and post-parabola flight compromise the effectiveness of the technique. In spite of its faults, this technique has been used to produce many meaningful studies. These studies have done much to increase our limited knowledge of reduced-gravity human factors. It appears that this technique will continue to be a main source of low-gravity data, until the era of manned orbiting laboratories.
The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of he... more The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of health care programmes as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the welfare state. It explains why health care should be central to our understanding of the welfare state; summarises the present debates about the pressures on welfare states; explains how to think about the health care governance in this connection; develops a typology of 'health care states'; and shows how the experience of health care reflects, and how it departs from, the wider experience of welfare states.
In 1963 two American political scientists published the first systematic comparison of popular at... more In 1963 two American political scientists published the first systematic comparison of popular attitudes to political authority in Britain and in other Western democracies (Almond and Verba, 1963). The British, they concluded, had a uniquely balanced attitude to authority — neither too rebellious nor too acquiescent — which promoted stable democracy. They nevertheless sounded a mild note of warning, remarking, on Britain, ‘it is possible that deference to political elites can go too far’. If the British had a fault, in other words, it was that they were a little too ready to respect authority in general and government authority in particular.
This book is about money, power and policy. Money is examined in various forms. Part of the study... more This book is about money, power and policy. Money is examined in various forms. Part of the study concerns that mystical quantity the money supply which, apparently invisible to mortal man, can only be imperfectly apprehended through a variety of indirect signs.1 Some plainer senses of money are also examined: money used (up to £3,000 million) to support collapsing banks and property companies in the middle of the 1970s; money lost (in excess of £300 million) by public institutions in that crisis; more money lost (£50 million and still rising) by the commercial clearing banks in the same affair.2
The U.S. Geological Survey has collected or compiled data on select chlorinated solvents in sampl... more The U.S. Geological Survey has collected or compiled data on select chlorinated solvents in samples of ground water, source water, and drinking water. The water samples were collected during 1993–2002. Data on solvents in ground water and source water were available for the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Data on solvents in drinking water only were available for 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. The occurrence and distribution of four solvents were examined—methlyene chloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, tetrachloro- ethene, and trichloroethene. Out of 51 to 55 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) analyzed in samples, solvents were among the most frequently detected VOCs in all data sets. When data from ground water and source water were confined to 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, the detection frequencies of solvents were similar among all three data sets. Although low concentrations of solvents commonly were detected in ground water, some solvents had higher med...
An Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) emergency clinic provides important access to specialist care for p... more An Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) emergency clinic provides important access to specialist care for patients referred by General Practitioners (GPs), Emergency Departments and doctors on non-ENT hospital wards. The aim is to enable the prompt diagnosis and management of acute conditions, within an optimum environment containing appropriate clinical and staff resources. Amid concerns that an open access ENT casualty service had become overburdened we performed a four week audit of all attendances. We
Introduction and Objectives The knowledge of the seventeenth century was rapidly applied in the e... more Introduction and Objectives The knowledge of the seventeenth century was rapidly applied in the eighteenth. Within this century, the term “enlightenment” was coined from the French term “Lumieres” and Kant’s essay of 1784 Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklarung? New thoughts on disease, especially stone disease, would rise from these enlightened minds.
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2002
This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which ... more This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which here we term ‘scientific-bureaucratic medicine’) emerged within the public-policy agendas of both the United Kingdom and United States during the 1990s. In particular, we address the theoretical puzzle of how explanations of policy emergence in single countries can be reconciled with policy convergence between two countries.
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