Ian Marsh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 585699 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Marsh |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Marsh |
| ASSINATURA | MARSH I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3576-4724 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The use of smart surveillance technologies for suicide prevention in public spaces
Around a third of suicides in the United Kingdom occur in public spaces, such as on the railways, at bridges, or coastal locations. Increasingly, the use of Artificial Intelligence and other smart technologies are being proposed as a means of optimising or automating aspects of the surveillance process in these environments. Yet relatively little is known about how they are being used for suicide prevention and the realities of deploying these sy…
Preventing suicides on the railways
The perspectives of people with lived/ing experiences, whilst far from homogenous, provide crucial insights into the potential value and unintended consequences of different measures to prevent suicides on the railways. Our findings reiterate the need for comprehensive suicide prevention strategies, targeting different stages of the suicidal process
Reframing Suicide
Representing suicide
Drawing on interview and online ethnographic data from a study of suicide on the railways, this paper describes the ways in which many of the concepts, assumptions and practices of mainstream suicide prevention are challenged in the accounts of those who are planning, or have enacted, a suicide attempt. We reflect on the ethical dilemmas which can arise for researchers (and practitioners) when lived experience accounts diverge - theoretically, mo…
Strategies to Stay Alive
Suicidal behavior constitutes a major global problem. Qualitative research utilizing the first-hand experiences of those who have survived attempts to take their own lives can offer much in the way of understanding how to live well despite ongoing suicidal behavior. Given that suicidal intentions and behaviors occur within the person's subjective construal, the solutions to living-and preferably living well-despite such inclinations must also be …
Knowledge Is Made for Cutting – An Introduction
This special issue of Social Epistemology represents a departure point from the traditional field of suicidology. Unlike its predecessor, critical suicidology, or more recently, critical suicide studies, consider the scientific framework of research too narrow and argue against universalizing assumptions and applications of ideas about suicide, which often centre on Western notions of psychopathology, and individualist accounts of suicidal agency…
The Social Production of Psychocentric Knowledge in Suicidology
Suicidology, the scientific study of suicide and suicide prevention, constructs suicide as primarily a question of individual mental health. Despite recent engagement with suicide from a broader public health perspective, and efforts of critical suicide studies scholars and activists to widen the disciplinary and theoretical base of suicidology, the narrow focus on individual pathology and deficit in conceptualising suicide persists. In this arti…
The Philosopher of Ambiguity
Spirituality as a concept has only recently begun to be considered in speech and language therapy (SLT) research and practice, and phenomenology as a research methodology is also not widely used in SLT research. Yet, concepts propounded by the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty arguably offer a useful theoretical framework from which to view certain aspects of SLT, including the concept of spirituality and how it is expressed by people with a …
Delivering Public Services
Policymakers across myriad jurisdictions are grappling with the challenge of complex policy problems. Multi‐faceted, complex, and seemingly intractable, ‘wicked’ problems have exhausted the repertoire of the standard policy approaches. In response, governments are increasingly looking for new options, and one approach that has gained significant scholarly interest, along with increasing attention from practitioners, is ‘place‐based’ solutions. Th…
The Commons Select Committee System in the 2015–20 Parliament
The House of Commons select committees witnessed some of the most constructive political theatre of the 2010‐2015 Parliament. Recall Rupert Murdoch's public contrition, Margaret Hodge's assault on MNC tax evasion and Keith Vaz's timely interrogations of G4S, etc. The committees also embraced social media and adopted public engagement as a key task. These developments all reflect a newly emboldened system. In recent months, four reports have been …
Democratic Discontents. Comment on
Matthew Flinders fine survey summarises the very wide contemporary literature on \ndemocratic discontents. Whilst of course recognising there is no single remedy, he \nurges attention to the development of political literacy. This involves practices of \nlistening and speaking across civic space—from socialisation during schooling to \ndemocratic participation in adult life. In this brief note I want to offer a complementary \nperspective on thes…
Anomic Suicide
The term “anomie” was first used by French sociologist Émile Durkheim to refer to situations where there was substantial disagreement over the appropriate norms and values that should govern social behavior. Durkheim's analysis of societies and how they are held together emphasizes the importance of an underlying value consensus, a “collective conscience” based on social guidelines (or norms) that most people adhere to and follow. When these valu…
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology introduces the reader to sociological issues, theories and debates, providing extracts of primary source material, from both classical and contemporary theorists. Theorists are examined within their historical and sociological framework and the text provides an analysis of developments in sociological thought and research. The text is divided into four main sections: Part One, Origins and Concepts, s…
Theory and Practice in Sociology
PART 1. SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE 1. Nature of social research and social knowledge. 2. Doing social research. PART 2. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY. 3. The nature of social theory. 4. The origins of classic social theory. 5. The nature of the sociological enterprise and the strains of modernity. 6. American sociology and the interactive self. 7. Contemporary theorising - Post-modernism. 8. Feminist theory - a question of difference
Setting the Post War Australian Policy Agenda – Causes and Content
What are the origins of policy agendas and what determines agenda setting? The one robust theory in the literature associates different agendas with different moments in the evolution of the broader party system namely mass, catch‐all and most recently cartel patterns. This article explores Australian evidence for this thesis. It also argues the cartel moment has recently mutated. Agenda setting is now circumscribed by a mismatch between the need…
The Decline of Democratic Governance
Why has democratic governance declined, at least in the Anglo‐American world? This essay maps the causes. It starts with the major parties, once basic agents of mass mobilisation and representation. It argues that a cascading series of developments, often involving contingent adjustments to immediate exigencies, have, in a longer perspective, created a fundamental gap between the political system and its publics. A second section then sketches pa…
The Uses of History in the Unmaking of Modern Suicide
This paper explores the notion that the writing of history has played a role in the making of modern suicide, and that it can have its uses in its “unmaking.” Examples of the making of modern suicide come from the writings of nineteenth century doctors concerned with formulating new medical truths of suicide, and who came to describe well-known historical “suicides” (e.g., that of Cato) in terms of pathology as part of this project. The medicaliz…
Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal
The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted. This book introduces a novel framework for evaluating the rise and decline of democratic governance. Examining…
The Rudd Government
Crime and Criminal Justice
Crime and Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. The book is divided into two parts, which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology. Part One describes, discusses and evaluates a range of theoretical approaches that have offered explanations for crime, …
The Henry Tax Review, Cartel Parties and the Reform Capacity of the Australian State
The Henry Tax Review is a work in progress, but it has already advanced sufficiently to constitute an important case study of state capacity in Australia. Using the Henry Tax Review as a case study, this paper sheds light on the question of whether the national political system is capable of devising and implementing long-term reforms. Whilst specific policy failures inevitably have a contingent dimension in the form of poor strategy and leadersh…
What Were They Thinking
Pragmatist and Neo‐Classical Policy Paradigms in Public Services
Principal‐agent theory alerts principals to their problematic relationship with agents. The former are encouraged to take deliberate action to counter asymmetries in knowledge, moral hazard etc. To avoid this, principals should determine outcomes and contracts and incentives should be designed to achieve them. This approach has influenced the form of purchaser‐provider arrangements, including the Job Network. This article reviews impacts, which i…
Dilemmas of Policy Innovation in the Public Sector
Policy innovation is a significant challenge for the public sector. This article illustrates its magnitude through a case study of the National Innovation Summit. The article concludes that the Summit represented an elaborate process of search and engagement that sanctioned an outcome that was, in most respects, largely pre‐determined. Its outreach and deliberations served the political purpose of mobilising industry and media attention and commu…
The Blair Governments, Public Sector Reform and State Strategic Capacity
Two books at the end of the Blair era—by Michael Barber and Julian Le Grand—offer to redeem the ‘third way’. Both authors explore the political case for public sector reform and the means by which it can be accomplished. They explore a similar range of reform models: command and control; quasi‐markets; and devolution and transparency. But the circle between efficiency, client service and continuous improvement must be squared. Neither author cons…
The political impact of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
This paper evaluates the political impact of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, now in its fifteenth year. The paper summarises the evolution of Mardi Gras from a protest march into a month long festival, culminating in a street parade. It traces the development of governance and organisational arrangements. The impact of this event in five contexts is then discussed: the political consciousness and organisational mobilisation of the gay and …
Dilemmas of Policy Innovation in the Public Sector
Policy innovation is a significant challenge for the public sector. This article illustrates its magnitude through a case study of the National Innovation Summit. The article concludes that the Summit represented an elaborate process of search and engagement that sanctioned an outcome that was, in most respects, largely pre‐determined. Its outreach and deliberations served the political purpose of mobilising industry and media attention and commu…
Representing suicide
Drawing on interview and online ethnographic data from a study of suicide on the railways, this paper describes the ways in which many of the concepts, assumptions and practices of mainstream suicide prevention are challenged in the accounts of those who are planning, or have enacted, a suicide attempt. We reflect on the ethical dilemmas which can arise for researchers (and practitioners) when lived experience accounts diverge - theoretically, mo…
Delivering Public Services
Policymakers across myriad jurisdictions are grappling with the challenge of complex policy problems. Multi‐faceted, complex, and seemingly intractable, ‘wicked’ problems have exhausted the repertoire of the standard policy approaches. In response, governments are increasingly looking for new options, and one approach that has gained significant scholarly interest, along with increasing attention from practitioners, is ‘place‐based’ solutions. Th…
The Henry Tax Review, Cartel Parties and the Reform Capacity of the Australian State
The Henry Tax Review is a work in progress, but it has already advanced sufficiently to constitute an important case study of state capacity in Australia. Using the Henry Tax Review as a case study, this paper sheds light on the question of whether the national political system is capable of devising and implementing long-term reforms. Whilst specific policy failures inevitably have a contingent dimension in the form of poor strategy and leadersh…
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology introduces the reader to sociological issues, theories and debates, providing extracts of primary source material, from both classical and contemporary theorists. Theorists are examined within their historical and sociological framework and the text provides an analysis of developments in sociological thought and research. The text is divided into four main sections: Part One, Origins and Concepts, s…
Neo-Liberalism and the Decline of Democratic Governance in Australia
This paper is a preliminary attempt to evaluate changing patterns of democratic governance, at least in Westminster-style parliamentary settings, and possibly more generally. It has two specific purposes: first, to propose a paradigm for evaluating the empirical evolution of democratic governance; and second, to illustrate the explanatory potential of this paradigm through a mini-case study of changing patterns of governance in one particular pol…
The Commons Select Committee System in the 2015–20 Parliament
The House of Commons select committees witnessed some of the most constructive political theatre of the 2010‐2015 Parliament. Recall Rupert Murdoch's public contrition, Margaret Hodge's assault on MNC tax evasion and Keith Vaz's timely interrogations of G4S, etc. The committees also embraced social media and adopted public engagement as a key task. These developments all reflect a newly emboldened system. In recent months, four reports have been …
The Uses of History in the Unmaking of Modern Suicide
This paper explores the notion that the writing of history has played a role in the making of modern suicide, and that it can have its uses in its “unmaking.” Examples of the making of modern suicide come from the writings of nineteenth century doctors concerned with formulating new medical truths of suicide, and who came to describe well-known historical “suicides” (e.g., that of Cato) in terms of pathology as part of this project. The medicaliz…
Program Strategy and Coalition Building as Facets of New Public Management
This paper explores two issues: first, the strategic and coalition‐building tasks that may be routinely associated with New Public Management (NPM); and second, the implications of acknowledging these tasks for the conception of public management. NPM focuses on performance. It invites managers to accept responsibility for whole programs or systems (Kettle, 1997; Dunleavy, 1994; Ridley, 1996; Hood, 1995). This directs attention to basic program f…
Democratic Discontents. Comment on
Matthew Flinders fine survey summarises the very wide contemporary literature on \ndemocratic discontents. Whilst of course recognising there is no single remedy, he \nurges attention to the development of political literacy. This involves practices of \nlistening and speaking across civic space—from socialisation during schooling to \ndemocratic participation in adult life. In this brief note I want to offer a complementary \nperspective on thes…
Interest Groups and Policy Making
Journal Article INTEREST GROUPS AND POLICY MAKING: A NEW ROLE FOR SELECT COMMITTEES? Get access Ian Marsh Ian Marsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1988, Pages 469–489, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052164 Published: 01 October 1988
The Assets Test
The assets test episode provides a case study in the difficulties modern governments face when confronted by numerous and powerful interest groups. The assets test decision was made somewhat hastily and without extensive consultation, resulting in a major outcry from interest groups. The government reacted by setting in train a process of “consultation” and subsequently announced a series of concessions. Opposition continued and further modificat…
Setting the Post War Australian Policy Agenda – Causes and Content
What are the origins of policy agendas and what determines agenda setting? The one robust theory in the literature associates different agendas with different moments in the evolution of the broader party system namely mass, catch‐all and most recently cartel patterns. This article explores Australian evidence for this thesis. It also argues the cartel moment has recently mutated. Agenda setting is now circumscribed by a mismatch between the need…
The Decline of Democratic Governance
Why has democratic governance declined, at least in the Anglo‐American world? This essay maps the causes. It starts with the major parties, once basic agents of mass mobilisation and representation. It argues that a cascading series of developments, often involving contingent adjustments to immediate exigencies, have, in a longer perspective, created a fundamental gap between the political system and its publics. A second section then sketches pa…
Australia's Political Institutions and the Corruption of Public Opinion 1
This article explores structural causes for the decline in the quality of Australia ' s political and policy conversations. Three are nominated. The first concerns the changing role of the major party organisations. These no longer contribute to agenda setting; they are no longer forums for activist and interest mobilisation; they no longer mobilise and cue a mass base. The second structural change concerns the rise in the role of the media. This…
The State and the Economy
This paper seeks to extend discussion of the areas of state activity that are relevant to economic performance. It does this by linking several literatures that are now usually considered in isolation from each other. These are institutionalist theory, developmental state theory, and comparative and historical institutionalism. The paper focuses particularly on the experience of the east Asian developmental states. The paper suggests a new role f…
The 1994 Mardi Gras telecast
In 1994 the ABC announced that it would screen an edited telecast of the forthcoming Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This proposal stimulated a major public campaign by opposing groups. Some opposed the timing of the telecast and others opposed a screening at any time. This campaign was distinguished by its scale, the vehemence of some of the views expressed and by their generally uncompromising character. Amongst other issues, the legitimacy …
The Changing Ethos of Public Service
Liberal Priorities, the Lib-Lab Pact and the Requirement for Policy Influence
Journal Article LIBERAL PRIORITIES, THE LIB-LAB PACT AND THE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICY INFLUENCE Get access Ian Marsh Ian Marsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 292–321, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052254 Published: 01 July 1990
Politics, Policy Making and Pressure Groups
In Australia, current policy making is characterized by immobilism, drift and “pluralistic stagnation”. The problem is not lack of technical expertise, but the mobilization of political consent in a polity in which pressure groups have proliferated. In the post‐war period, the welfare state/managed economy has transformed the role of government and the potential power of pressure groups. New networks of interdependency have developed. Some of the…
Politics, Policy Making and Pressure Groups
In Australia, current policy making is characterized by immobilism, drift and “pluralistic stagnation”. The problem is not lack of technical expertise, but the mobilization of political consent in a polity in which pressure groups have proliferated. In the post‐war period, the welfare state/managed economy has transformed the role of government and the potential power of pressure groups. New networks of interdependency have developed. Some of the…
The Assets Test
The assets test episode provides a case study in the difficulties modern governments face when confronted by numerous and powerful interest groups. The assets test decision was made somewhat hastily and without extensive consultation, resulting in a major outcry from interest groups. The government reacted by setting in train a process of “consultation” and subsequently announced a series of concessions. Opposition continued and further modificat…
Interest Groups and Policy Making
Journal Article INTEREST GROUPS AND POLICY MAKING: A NEW ROLE FOR SELECT COMMITTEES? Get access Ian Marsh Ian Marsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1988, Pages 469–489, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052164 Published: 01 October 1988
Liberal Priorities, the Lib-Lab Pact and the Requirement for Policy Influence
Journal Article LIBERAL PRIORITIES, THE LIB-LAB PACT AND THE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICY INFLUENCE Get access Ian Marsh Ian Marsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 292–321, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052254 Published: 01 July 1990
The impact and career implications of an in‐service course for teachers
This study explores the feelings of a small group of teachers about a one‐year, full‐time, Diploma course from September 1985 to July 1986. The focus is on the impact of participation on their personal and professional development. Given that the impact or outcome of any new learning experience cannot be tied to specific time limits, the research is longitudinal. A series of interviews was conducted with the course members ‐immediately after the …
You Can't Afford a Conscience in Business
In his examination of the links between power and crime, Steven Box defined corporate crime as crime committed for the corporate organisation and not against it. Thus, employee theft, including fraud and embezzlement against an employer, would not be categorised as such. Braithwaite adopts a similar definition to Box, suggesting that corporate crime refers to ‘the conduct of a corporation or individuals acting on behalf of the corporation that is…
The Changing Ethos of Public Service
The 1994 Mardi Gras telecast
In 1994 the ABC announced that it would screen an edited telecast of the forthcoming Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This proposal stimulated a major public campaign by opposing groups. Some opposed the timing of the telecast and others opposed a screening at any time. This campaign was distinguished by its scale, the vehemence of some of the views expressed and by their generally uncompromising character. Amongst other issues, the legitimacy …
The political impact of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
This paper evaluates the political impact of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, now in its fifteenth year. The paper summarises the evolution of Mardi Gras from a protest march into a month long festival, culminating in a street parade. It traces the development of governance and organisational arrangements. The impact of this event in five contexts is then discussed: the political consciousness and organisational mobilisation of the gay and …
Beyond the Two Party System
Introduction Part I. The Two Party Regime: 1. The formation, structure and impact of the two party regime Part II. The Challenge of Governance: 2. A pluralised polity? The rise of interest groups and issue movements 3. Setting and implementing the political agenda - political parties, interest groups and issue movements 4. Political parties, representation and the electorate Part III. The Challenge of Competitiveness: 5. Australia and the world e…
Program Strategy and Coalition Building as Facets of New Public Management
This paper explores two issues: first, the strategic and coalition‐building tasks that may be routinely associated with New Public Management (NPM); and second, the implications of acknowledging these tasks for the conception of public management. NPM focuses on performance. It invites managers to accept responsibility for whole programs or systems (Kettle, 1997; Dunleavy, 1994; Ridley, 1996; Hood, 1995). This directs attention to basic program f…
The State and the Economy
This paper seeks to extend discussion of the areas of state activity that are relevant to economic performance. It does this by linking several literatures that are now usually considered in isolation from each other. These are institutionalist theory, developmental state theory, and comparative and historical institutionalism. The paper focuses particularly on the experience of the east Asian developmental states. The paper suggests a new role f…
Multi-National Corporation Investment as an Object of State Economic Strategy
This paper discusses the attraction of multi-national corporation (MNC) investment as an emerging economic role for the state. First, the changing strategic environment of states is explored through consideration of the new importance of international investment and trade, the role of MNCs and the opportunities to shape the manufacturing and services structure which thus arise. Second, theories about MNC internationalisation are considered to ide…
Governance in Australia
The Prospects for a New ‘Federation Settlement’ (Through a More Consensual Political System)
Criminal Justice
This new text encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. The first part offers a clear and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice and punishment and the developing perspective of victimology. In the second part, the focus is on the main areas of the contemporary criminal justice system, i…
Criminal Justice
Neo-Liberalism and the Decline of Democratic Governance in Australia
This paper is a preliminary attempt to evaluate changing patterns of democratic governance, at least in Westminster-style parliamentary settings, and possibly more generally. It has two specific purposes: first, to propose a paradigm for evaluating the empirical evolution of democratic governance; and second, to illustrate the explanatory potential of this paradigm through a mini-case study of changing patterns of governance in one particular pol…
Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State
1. Globalisation and Public Opinion in Western Europe and East and South-East Asia Part 1: Encountering and Assessing Globalisation 2. The 'Objective' Impact of Globalisation and its Socio-Political Context 3. Exposure to Globalisation 4. How the Public Evaluates Globalisation 5. Citizens' Attitudes to International Organisations and Reactions to Globalisation Part 2: Encountering and Responding to Globalisation 6. Identity, Inequality and Global…
Theories of Crime
Presenting a clear, comprehensive review of theoretical thinking on crime, this book encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of classic and contemporary theories and provides an interdisciplinary approach to criminology through the contributions of sociology, psychology and biology. A key text for any undergraduate student following programmes in criminology and criminal justice, Theories of Crime covers topics such as: the historic…
Australia's Political Institutions and the Corruption of Public Opinion 1
This article explores structural causes for the decline in the quality of Australia ' s political and policy conversations. Three are nominated. The first concerns the changing role of the major party organisations. These no longer contribute to agenda setting; they are no longer forums for activist and interest mobilisation; they no longer mobilise and cue a mass base. The second structural change concerns the rise in the role of the media. This…
Political Parties in Transition
Australia's political cartel? The major parties and the party system in an era of globalisation Ian Marsh Party structures and processes Dean Jaensch Party organisations and resources: Membership, funding and staffing Gary Johns Cartel parties and election campaigning in Australia Ian Ward The cartel parties model and electoral barriers Rodney Smith and John O'Mahony Ideological convergence between the major parties and the representation gap in …
Instruction to Deliver
Pragmatist and Neo‐Classical Policy Paradigms in Public Services
Principal‐agent theory alerts principals to their problematic relationship with agents. The former are encouraged to take deliberate action to counter asymmetries in knowledge, moral hazard etc. To avoid this, principals should determine outcomes and contracts and incentives should be designed to achieve them. This approach has influenced the form of purchaser‐provider arrangements, including the Job Network. This article reviews impacts, which i…
Dilemmas of Policy Innovation in the Public Sector
Policy innovation is a significant challenge for the public sector. This article illustrates its magnitude through a case study of the National Innovation Summit. The article concludes that the Summit represented an elaborate process of search and engagement that sanctioned an outcome that was, in most respects, largely pre‐determined. Its outreach and deliberations served the political purpose of mobilising industry and media attention and commu…
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