Nick Ellison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3660737 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nick Ellison |
| NOMBRES | Nick |
| APELLIDO | Ellison |
| FIRMA | ELLISON N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6348-655X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Health and social welfare policies in the ‘post-Covid-19’ era
It is an under-statement to say that the emergence, spread and impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus placed enormous strains on both the health care systems and wider welfare capacities of governments across the world. Indeed, across high-, middle-, and low-income country settings, it is not difficult to find instances of infrastructural failure – sometimes dramatic – and disruption of essential care services (Lal et al., 2021; Daly, 2020). G…
Covid (in)equalities
How have differently institutionalized welfare regimes dealt with the Covid-19 crisis? In particular, how have they confronted the social and economic inequalities exposed by the virus? Taking three European countries—Germany, Sweden, and the UK, corresponding broadly to conservative-continental, social democratic, and liberal regime types—this paper tracks the virus response in the areas of income and employment protection and health and residen…
Personal and community factors as predictors of different types of community engagement
Citizen participation is an important element of local democracy because it increases residents’ influence over local community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeli participants, this paper examines, for the first time, the unique and combined contribution of personal factors (self‐esteem and mastery) and community factors (years of activity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders, community commitment, and community belonging) to the exp…
Politics, power and policy transfer
Although the extensive literature on policy transfer and learning has succeeded in raising awareness of the myriad issues associated with this complex field, the goal of developing a clear and systematic conceptual apparatus capable of explaining (at least) how policy is transferred, by whom (or through what structural mechanisms) and with what effects has so far proved elusive. This verdict is not in fact surprising because, as the literature de…
Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK
This article draws on the research of authors participating in this Special Issue, as well as a broader evidence review on how health, disability, labour market inequalities and other factors contribute to high levels of disability benefit ( DB ) claiming among certain communities. We argue that the evidence points to a complex combination of factors feeding into high levels of DB claiming in the UK and beyond, namely: geographical concentrations…
Introduction
Social Media and Local Government
This article seeks to assess and understand the role played by new forms of internet-based communication in UK local governance. Drawing on a survey of all English local authorities the article examines the utilisation of social media before going on to ask what potential these media might hold for the enhancement of local participation. Amidst contemporary debates about the nature of local governance, not least those prompted by the recent preoc…
Developing Political Conversations
This paper reports on a survey of social media use by English local authorities. The survey indicates that English local authorities currently do not engage with social media in any substantive manner. However, as the paper argues, this lack of attention to forms of communication afforded by Web 2.0 risks missing an important avenue of ‘citizen engagement’, understood neither in the relatively straightforward terms of one-way ‘e-democracy’, such …
Citizenship, space and time
This article examines changing modalities of citizenship in a fast-moving, informationalized and connected world. The argument here is that, in an increasingly globalized economic, social and cultural environment, forms and practices of citizenship inevitably - and increasingly - fragment across space and time. While this tendency for citizenship to 'shape-shift' politically and socially is not new - and indeed while the spatial fragmentation of …
Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy – By Ruth Lister
Away with the fairies?’ Disability within primary‐age children's literature
This article outlines the findings of a new study that explores the portrayal of disability within a sample of the primary‐age children's literature most readily available to UK schools. The kind of literature to which children are exposed is likely to influence their general perceptions of social life. How disability is handled by authors is therefore important from the standpoint of disability equality. Findings suggest that whilst there are so…
We nicked stuff from all over the place
This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews curren…
New Spaces of (Dis)engagement? Social Politics, Urban Technologies and the Rezoning of the City
This paper discusses the changing nature of urban space and urban technologies, using various conceptions of engagement in social politics to illuminate contemporary understandings of cultural change and social exclusion and the role of housing within this. The progressive reorganisation of urban space, which is at least partly a result of global economic changes, is producing complex forms of social politics organised around newly emerging varie…
The Transformation of Welfare States?
This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face. This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare state change, paying particular attention to cont…
Creating ‘Opportunity for All’? New Labour, New Localism and the Opportunity Society
Since coming to office, New Labour has made much of a ‘public philosophy’ that stresses the importance of equal access to opportunities. This article does not so much criticise this fairly modest understanding of social justice as ask whether the kind of social policies that New Labour has devised are capable of delivering ‘opportunity for all’. The suggestion is that, because ‘targeted’ policies – Labour's local regeneration initiatives are the …
Social Policy Review 16
Social Policy Review 16Analysis and debate in social policy, 2004
Sorting Places Out? Towards a social politics of neighbourhood informatization
This paper examines some of the possible consequences of the introduction of online Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the social politics of neighbourhoods and the public sphere more generally. Summarizing a number of recent theorizations of neighbourhood informatization, the article provides examples of online GIS in the UK and considers some of the possible implications of the use of such technologies for contemporary debates about cit…
Social Policy Review 16
Social Policy Review 14
Social Policy Review 14
Social Policy Review is an annual selection of commissioned articles focusing on developments and debates in social policy. Social Policy Review 14 reviews a varied and interesting selection of social policy developments in Britain and internationally, and sets current policy developments in a broader context of key trends and debates.
Proactive and Defensive Engagement
Arguing that the nature of citizenship is changing as a result of the progressive fragmentation of the public sphere in late modern societies, this article suggests that contemporary citizenship is best understood as a series of 'temporary solidarities' contained within a social politics characterised by 'defensive' or 'proactive' forms of engagement. Beginning with a theoretical discussion which explores some of the reasons for the fragmentation…
Civic-Subjects or Civic-Agents
Beyond universalism and particularism
Current debates about the respective merits of universalist and particularist approaches to welfare suggest that contemporary welfare theory has reached an impasse. Following an examination of recent attempts to discuss the respective merits of universalist and particularist claims, this article argues that, in an increasingly pluralist social and political environment characterized by shifting identities and solidarities, we need to embrace ‘dif…
Developments in British Social Policy
This important text furnishes students with a comprehensive introduction that covers not just a sector-by-sector policy analysis but also its important theoretical underpinning and a discussion of the
Social Media and Local Government
This article seeks to assess and understand the role played by new forms of internet-based communication in UK local governance. Drawing on a survey of all English local authorities the article examines the utilisation of social media before going on to ask what potential these media might hold for the enhancement of local participation. Amidst contemporary debates about the nature of local governance, not least those prompted by the recent preoc…
Towards a New Social Politics
There is little agreement about the meaning of citizenship in the rapidly changing social, economic and political conditions of late modernity. This article examines three accounts of citizenship - state-centred, pluralist and post-structuralist - and argues that none offers an entirely convincing understanding of the idea suited to the fragmented conditions of contemporary social politics. Instead, it is important to move away from these account…
We nicked stuff from all over the place
This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews curren…
Away with the fairies?’ Disability within primary‐age children's literature
This article outlines the findings of a new study that explores the portrayal of disability within a sample of the primary‐age children's literature most readily available to UK schools. The kind of literature to which children are exposed is likely to influence their general perceptions of social life. How disability is handled by authors is therefore important from the standpoint of disability equality. Findings suggest that whilst there are so…
Beyond universalism and particularism
Current debates about the respective merits of universalist and particularist approaches to welfare suggest that contemporary welfare theory has reached an impasse. Following an examination of recent attempts to discuss the respective merits of universalist and particularist claims, this article argues that, in an increasingly pluralist social and political environment characterized by shifting identities and solidarities, we need to embrace ‘dif…
New Spaces of (Dis)engagement? Social Politics, Urban Technologies and the Rezoning of the City
This paper discusses the changing nature of urban space and urban technologies, using various conceptions of engagement in social politics to illuminate contemporary understandings of cultural change and social exclusion and the role of housing within this. The progressive reorganisation of urban space, which is at least partly a result of global economic changes, is producing complex forms of social politics organised around newly emerging varie…
Proactive and Defensive Engagement
Arguing that the nature of citizenship is changing as a result of the progressive fragmentation of the public sphere in late modern societies, this article suggests that contemporary citizenship is best understood as a series of 'temporary solidarities' contained within a social politics characterised by 'defensive' or 'proactive' forms of engagement. Beginning with a theoretical discussion which explores some of the reasons for the fragmentation…
Introduction
Creating ‘Opportunity for All’? New Labour, New Localism and the Opportunity Society
Since coming to office, New Labour has made much of a ‘public philosophy’ that stresses the importance of equal access to opportunities. This article does not so much criticise this fairly modest understanding of social justice as ask whether the kind of social policies that New Labour has devised are capable of delivering ‘opportunity for all’. The suggestion is that, because ‘targeted’ policies – Labour's local regeneration initiatives are the …
Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK
This article draws on the research of authors participating in this Special Issue, as well as a broader evidence review on how health, disability, labour market inequalities and other factors contribute to high levels of disability benefit ( DB ) claiming among certain communities. We argue that the evidence points to a complex combination of factors feeding into high levels of DB claiming in the UK and beyond, namely: geographical concentrations…
Covid (in)equalities
How have differently institutionalized welfare regimes dealt with the Covid-19 crisis? In particular, how have they confronted the social and economic inequalities exposed by the virus? Taking three European countries—Germany, Sweden, and the UK, corresponding broadly to conservative-continental, social democratic, and liberal regime types—this paper tracks the virus response in the areas of income and employment protection and health and residen…
Citizenship, space and time
This article examines changing modalities of citizenship in a fast-moving, informationalized and connected world. The argument here is that, in an increasingly globalized economic, social and cultural environment, forms and practices of citizenship inevitably - and increasingly - fragment across space and time. While this tendency for citizenship to 'shape-shift' politically and socially is not new - and indeed while the spatial fragmentation of …
Politics, power and policy transfer
Although the extensive literature on policy transfer and learning has succeeded in raising awareness of the myriad issues associated with this complex field, the goal of developing a clear and systematic conceptual apparatus capable of explaining (at least) how policy is transferred, by whom (or through what structural mechanisms) and with what effects has so far proved elusive. This verdict is not in fact surprising because, as the literature de…
Personal and community factors as predictors of different types of community engagement
Citizen participation is an important element of local democracy because it increases residents’ influence over local community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeli participants, this paper examines, for the first time, the unique and combined contribution of personal factors (self‐esteem and mastery) and community factors (years of activity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders, community commitment, and community belonging) to the exp…
Civic-Subjects or Civic-Agents
Equality, Fraternity-and Bernard Crick
Beyond the Welfare State
Towards a New Social Politics
There is little agreement about the meaning of citizenship in the rapidly changing social, economic and political conditions of late modernity. This article examines three accounts of citizenship - state-centred, pluralist and post-structuralist - and argues that none offers an entirely convincing understanding of the idea suited to the fragmented conditions of contemporary social politics. Instead, it is important to move away from these account…
Developments in British Social Policy
This important text furnishes students with a comprehensive introduction that covers not just a sector-by-sector policy analysis but also its important theoretical underpinning and a discussion of the
Beyond universalism and particularism
Current debates about the respective merits of universalist and particularist approaches to welfare suggest that contemporary welfare theory has reached an impasse. Following an examination of recent attempts to discuss the respective merits of universalist and particularist claims, this article argues that, in an increasingly pluralist social and political environment characterized by shifting identities and solidarities, we need to embrace ‘dif…
Proactive and Defensive Engagement
Arguing that the nature of citizenship is changing as a result of the progressive fragmentation of the public sphere in late modern societies, this article suggests that contemporary citizenship is best understood as a series of 'temporary solidarities' contained within a social politics characterised by 'defensive' or 'proactive' forms of engagement. Beginning with a theoretical discussion which explores some of the reasons for the fragmentation…
Civic-Subjects or Civic-Agents
Social Policy Review 14
Social Policy Review 14
Social Policy Review is an annual selection of commissioned articles focusing on developments and debates in social policy. Social Policy Review 14 reviews a varied and interesting selection of social policy developments in Britain and internationally, and sets current policy developments in a broader context of key trends and debates.
Social Policy Review 16
Social Policy Review 16Analysis and debate in social policy, 2004
Sorting Places Out? Towards a social politics of neighbourhood informatization
This paper examines some of the possible consequences of the introduction of online Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the social politics of neighbourhoods and the public sphere more generally. Summarizing a number of recent theorizations of neighbourhood informatization, the article provides examples of online GIS in the UK and considers some of the possible implications of the use of such technologies for contemporary debates about cit…
Social Policy Review 16
The Transformation of Welfare States?
This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face. This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare state change, paying particular attention to cont…
Creating ‘Opportunity for All’? New Labour, New Localism and the Opportunity Society
Since coming to office, New Labour has made much of a ‘public philosophy’ that stresses the importance of equal access to opportunities. This article does not so much criticise this fairly modest understanding of social justice as ask whether the kind of social policies that New Labour has devised are capable of delivering ‘opportunity for all’. The suggestion is that, because ‘targeted’ policies – Labour's local regeneration initiatives are the …
New Spaces of (Dis)engagement? Social Politics, Urban Technologies and the Rezoning of the City
This paper discusses the changing nature of urban space and urban technologies, using various conceptions of engagement in social politics to illuminate contemporary understandings of cultural change and social exclusion and the role of housing within this. The progressive reorganisation of urban space, which is at least partly a result of global economic changes, is producing complex forms of social politics organised around newly emerging varie…
We nicked stuff from all over the place
This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews curren…
Away with the fairies?’ Disability within primary‐age children's literature
This article outlines the findings of a new study that explores the portrayal of disability within a sample of the primary‐age children's literature most readily available to UK schools. The kind of literature to which children are exposed is likely to influence their general perceptions of social life. How disability is handled by authors is therefore important from the standpoint of disability equality. Findings suggest that whilst there are so…
Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy – By Ruth Lister
Developing Political Conversations
This paper reports on a survey of social media use by English local authorities. The survey indicates that English local authorities currently do not engage with social media in any substantive manner. However, as the paper argues, this lack of attention to forms of communication afforded by Web 2.0 risks missing an important avenue of ‘citizen engagement’, understood neither in the relatively straightforward terms of one-way ‘e-democracy’, such …
Citizenship, space and time
This article examines changing modalities of citizenship in a fast-moving, informationalized and connected world. The argument here is that, in an increasingly globalized economic, social and cultural environment, forms and practices of citizenship inevitably - and increasingly - fragment across space and time. While this tendency for citizenship to 'shape-shift' politically and socially is not new - and indeed while the spatial fragmentation of …
Social Media and Local Government
This article seeks to assess and understand the role played by new forms of internet-based communication in UK local governance. Drawing on a survey of all English local authorities the article examines the utilisation of social media before going on to ask what potential these media might hold for the enhancement of local participation. Amidst contemporary debates about the nature of local governance, not least those prompted by the recent preoc…
Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK
This article draws on the research of authors participating in this Special Issue, as well as a broader evidence review on how health, disability, labour market inequalities and other factors contribute to high levels of disability benefit ( DB ) claiming among certain communities. We argue that the evidence points to a complex combination of factors feeding into high levels of DB claiming in the UK and beyond, namely: geographical concentrations…
Introduction
Politics, power and policy transfer
Although the extensive literature on policy transfer and learning has succeeded in raising awareness of the myriad issues associated with this complex field, the goal of developing a clear and systematic conceptual apparatus capable of explaining (at least) how policy is transferred, by whom (or through what structural mechanisms) and with what effects has so far proved elusive. This verdict is not in fact surprising because, as the literature de…
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