Rob Flynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 180836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Flynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Flynn |
| SIGNATURE | FLYNN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
Substituting ‘H 2 for C’ and reducing global inequalities in health
Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable climate change arising from global warming. Substituting for fossil fuels (C), hydrogen (H2), as vector and store of energy produced from low-carbon and/or renewable sources could reduce health inequaliti…
Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system
Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation – the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new technology like the steam engine, but on the familiar water mill. The locale was less prosperous than others in its agriculture and cottage textile industry, far from the English trade hub London and diffi…
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
Calculating Political Risk ‐ by Catherine Althaus
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Tacit and encoded knowledge in the use of standardised outcome measures in multidisciplinary team decision making: A case study of in-patient neurorehabilitation
Divide and Conquer: A comparative history of medical specialization - by Weisz, G
Weisz, G. Divide and Conquer: a comparative history of medical specialization 2006 , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 359pp . £29.99 , ISBN 978 0 19 517969-9 (hbk) Users of health services, and medical sociologists, might be expected to assume that the division of medical labour corresponds broadly with biomedical categorisations of disease, or organs of the body. They might also expect that there is similarity in the number and type of ‘specia…
Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies
This edited volume brings together leading social scientists who address recent evidence and debates about public engagement and trust in experts. The chapters consider different methods of public con
The New Politics of Medicine
THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE Brian Salter Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 236 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333801121
The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice: Lack of Impact or Lack of Theory
Clinical governance and governmentality
The introduction of Clinical Governance into the National Health Service in England represents a fundamental shift in the regulatory relationship between the state and medical professionals. This paper critically examines the underlying assumptions of Clinical Governance, and discusses them in relation to Foucauldian concepts of 'governmentality'. First, official definitions of Clinical Governance are reviewed in the context of other policies to …
Paradoxes of GP fundholding: Contracting for community health services in the British National Health Service
Quasi-welfare, associationalism and the social division of citizenship
It is widely acknowledged that in many advanced capitalist societies, the role and structure of the welfare state has undergone substantial changes in recent decades. Arguments continue about the precise causes, and about the trajectory and impact of those changes. One particular strand in the debate has concerned the nature of the transformation of the welfare state in relation to the wider economy, and whether these changes reflect a ‘post‐Ford…
Local Voices in an Internal Market: The Case of Community Health Services
This paper presents findings from a study of contract specification and implementation in community health services (CHS). In this paper, we focus on one aspect of that study: the role of local people in informing the assessment of health needs and in determining the provision of community health services in the context of the NHS “internal market”. The paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in three districts within one region. Analysis of data …
Contracts and the Quasi-market in Community Health Services
In the NHS quasi-market, contracts are the crucial mechanism through which purchasers influence providers of health care. Most attention has been given to the commissioning and contracting process in acute hospital services. However, there is another important but neglected sector of health care - community health services (CHS) - in which the specification and implementation of contracts is particularly difficult. In this article, three dimensio…
Coping With Cutbacks and Managing Retrenchment in Health
This paper presents qualitative evidence about managers' perceptions of retrenchment in the National Health Service in England. It outlines the financial situation of six case-study district health authorities during the expenditure crisis of 1987/8, and presents the results of an interview survey of district general managers and directors of finance about the implementation of cutbacks. Similar policies of cost-containment and service reduction …
Land use planning and the mediation of urban change
Short reviews
Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf …
Cost-containment in Health Care: A comparison of policies in the Netherlands and England
Cost-containment in health care has become an increasingly important objective for governments in most industrialised societies, irrespective of differences in systems of finance and service-delivery. Policies for cost-containment and retrenchment in the intra-mural (hospital) sector are described and compared in two ostensibly different health care systems - the mixed social insurance model in the Netherlands, and the National Health Service in …
Political Acquiescence, Privatisation and Residualisation in British Housing Policy
This paper examines some of the social and political implications of retrenchment and privatisation in British housing policy. It reviews arguments and evidence about residualisation in the housing market, the effects of consumption sectoral cleavages, and attitudinal ambivalence to welfare, in an attempt to understand the apparent absence of discontent about inequalities in housing. It is argued that recent trends have exacerbated social fragmen…
The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy
The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional powe…
Cutback Contradictions in Dutch Housing Policy
This paper describes housing policy in the Netherlands and the current crisis over subsidies. It argues that the development of the welfare state, the housing system, and recent retrenchment contain contradictions which reflect the distinctive nature of Dutch politics and social structure. In particular, it suggests that the existence of pillarized social cleavages has been influential in the growth of a progressive welfare state, in providing a …
The Implementation of Urban and Regional Planning Policies
This article is the central section of a report written for the Department of the Environment on the theme of implementing urban and regional planning. The Department’s concern was to have a framework within which to sponsor a programme of research on this topic. Interviews were carried out with staff within the department, local authorities and other statutory bodies. The meaning of the term ‘implementation’ is first discussed and is followed by…
Urban Managers in Local Government Planning
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
Tacit and encoded knowledge in the use of standardised outcome measures in multidisciplinary team decision making: A case study of in-patient neurorehabilitation
The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice: Lack of Impact or Lack of Theory
Contracts and the Quasi-market in Community Health Services
In the NHS quasi-market, contracts are the crucial mechanism through which purchasers influence providers of health care. Most attention has been given to the commissioning and contracting process in acute hospital services. However, there is another important but neglected sector of health care - community health services (CHS) - in which the specification and implementation of contracts is particularly difficult. In this article, three dimensio…
Political Acquiescence, Privatisation and Residualisation in British Housing Policy
This paper examines some of the social and political implications of retrenchment and privatisation in British housing policy. It reviews arguments and evidence about residualisation in the housing market, the effects of consumption sectoral cleavages, and attitudinal ambivalence to welfare, in an attempt to understand the apparent absence of discontent about inequalities in housing. It is argued that recent trends have exacerbated social fragmen…
The Implementation of Urban and Regional Planning Policies
This article is the central section of a report written for the Department of the Environment on the theme of implementing urban and regional planning. The Department’s concern was to have a framework within which to sponsor a programme of research on this topic. Interviews were carried out with staff within the department, local authorities and other statutory bodies. The meaning of the term ‘implementation’ is first discussed and is followed by…
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Land use planning and the mediation of urban change
Paradoxes of GP fundholding: Contracting for community health services in the British National Health Service
Cutback Contradictions in Dutch Housing Policy
This paper describes housing policy in the Netherlands and the current crisis over subsidies. It argues that the development of the welfare state, the housing system, and recent retrenchment contain contradictions which reflect the distinctive nature of Dutch politics and social structure. In particular, it suggests that the existence of pillarized social cleavages has been influential in the growth of a progressive welfare state, in providing a …
Quasi-welfare, associationalism and the social division of citizenship
It is widely acknowledged that in many advanced capitalist societies, the role and structure of the welfare state has undergone substantial changes in recent decades. Arguments continue about the precise causes, and about the trajectory and impact of those changes. One particular strand in the debate has concerned the nature of the transformation of the welfare state in relation to the wider economy, and whether these changes reflect a ‘post‐Ford…
The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy
The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional powe…
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
Local Voices in an Internal Market: The Case of Community Health Services
This paper presents findings from a study of contract specification and implementation in community health services (CHS). In this paper, we focus on one aspect of that study: the role of local people in informing the assessment of health needs and in determining the provision of community health services in the context of the NHS “internal market”. The paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in three districts within one region. Analysis of data …
Cost-containment in Health Care: A comparison of policies in the Netherlands and England
Cost-containment in health care has become an increasingly important objective for governments in most industrialised societies, irrespective of differences in systems of finance and service-delivery. Policies for cost-containment and retrenchment in the intra-mural (hospital) sector are described and compared in two ostensibly different health care systems - the mixed social insurance model in the Netherlands, and the National Health Service in …
The Implementation of Urban and Regional Planning Policies
This article is the central section of a report written for the Department of the Environment on the theme of implementing urban and regional planning. The Department’s concern was to have a framework within which to sponsor a programme of research on this topic. Interviews were carried out with staff within the department, local authorities and other statutory bodies. The meaning of the term ‘implementation’ is first discussed and is followed by…
Urban Managers in Local Government Planning
The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy
The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional powe…
Cutback Contradictions in Dutch Housing Policy
This paper describes housing policy in the Netherlands and the current crisis over subsidies. It argues that the development of the welfare state, the housing system, and recent retrenchment contain contradictions which reflect the distinctive nature of Dutch politics and social structure. In particular, it suggests that the existence of pillarized social cleavages has been influential in the growth of a progressive welfare state, in providing a …
Political Acquiescence, Privatisation and Residualisation in British Housing Policy
This paper examines some of the social and political implications of retrenchment and privatisation in British housing policy. It reviews arguments and evidence about residualisation in the housing market, the effects of consumption sectoral cleavages, and attitudinal ambivalence to welfare, in an attempt to understand the apparent absence of discontent about inequalities in housing. It is argued that recent trends have exacerbated social fragmen…
Land use planning and the mediation of urban change
Short reviews
Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf …
Cost-containment in Health Care: A comparison of policies in the Netherlands and England
Cost-containment in health care has become an increasingly important objective for governments in most industrialised societies, irrespective of differences in systems of finance and service-delivery. Policies for cost-containment and retrenchment in the intra-mural (hospital) sector are described and compared in two ostensibly different health care systems - the mixed social insurance model in the Netherlands, and the National Health Service in …
Coping With Cutbacks and Managing Retrenchment in Health
This paper presents qualitative evidence about managers' perceptions of retrenchment in the National Health Service in England. It outlines the financial situation of six case-study district health authorities during the expenditure crisis of 1987/8, and presents the results of an interview survey of district general managers and directors of finance about the implementation of cutbacks. Similar policies of cost-containment and service reduction …
Local Voices in an Internal Market: The Case of Community Health Services
This paper presents findings from a study of contract specification and implementation in community health services (CHS). In this paper, we focus on one aspect of that study: the role of local people in informing the assessment of health needs and in determining the provision of community health services in the context of the NHS “internal market”. The paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in three districts within one region. Analysis of data …
Contracts and the Quasi-market in Community Health Services
In the NHS quasi-market, contracts are the crucial mechanism through which purchasers influence providers of health care. Most attention has been given to the commissioning and contracting process in acute hospital services. However, there is another important but neglected sector of health care - community health services (CHS) - in which the specification and implementation of contracts is particularly difficult. In this article, three dimensio…
Paradoxes of GP fundholding: Contracting for community health services in the British National Health Service
Quasi-welfare, associationalism and the social division of citizenship
It is widely acknowledged that in many advanced capitalist societies, the role and structure of the welfare state has undergone substantial changes in recent decades. Arguments continue about the precise causes, and about the trajectory and impact of those changes. One particular strand in the debate has concerned the nature of the transformation of the welfare state in relation to the wider economy, and whether these changes reflect a ‘post‐Ford…
Clinical governance and governmentality
The introduction of Clinical Governance into the National Health Service in England represents a fundamental shift in the regulatory relationship between the state and medical professionals. This paper critically examines the underlying assumptions of Clinical Governance, and discusses them in relation to Foucauldian concepts of 'governmentality'. First, official definitions of Clinical Governance are reviewed in the context of other policies to …
The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice: Lack of Impact or Lack of Theory
The New Politics of Medicine
THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE Brian Salter Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 236 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333801121
Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies
This edited volume brings together leading social scientists who address recent evidence and debates about public engagement and trust in experts. The chapters consider different methods of public con
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Tacit and encoded knowledge in the use of standardised outcome measures in multidisciplinary team decision making: A case study of in-patient neurorehabilitation
Divide and Conquer: A comparative history of medical specialization - by Weisz, G
Weisz, G. Divide and Conquer: a comparative history of medical specialization 2006 , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 359pp . £29.99 , ISBN 978 0 19 517969-9 (hbk) Users of health services, and medical sociologists, might be expected to assume that the division of medical labour corresponds broadly with biomedical categorisations of disease, or organs of the body. They might also expect that there is similarity in the number and type of ‘specia…
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
Calculating Political Risk ‐ by Catherine Althaus
Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system
Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation – the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new technology like the steam engine, but on the familiar water mill. The locale was less prosperous than others in its agriculture and cottage textile industry, far from the English trade hub London and diffi…
Substituting ‘H 2 for C’ and reducing global inequalities in health
Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable climate change arising from global warming. Substituting for fossil fuels (C), hydrogen (H2), as vector and store of energy produced from low-carbon and/or renewable sources could reduce health inequaliti…
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
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