Nick Manning
Biographic Data
| ID | 264208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Manning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Manning |
| SIGNATURE | MANNING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3894-5144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Towards an ecological social science? On introducing ‘social affordances’ to (some) social theory
This paper discusses the concept of social affordances in relation to social theory. Our point of departure is the growing literature which posits, in one way or another, that affordances may be seen as social, or cultural or similar. Across the literature on social affordances, it is thus emphasized how perception is shaped within human econiches, how it is fundamentally social, historical, and cultural, but limited direct engagement with decade…
Affordances, mental health and psychiatry
This paper suggests that new directions in mental health and psychiatry are being driven by anomalies within epidemiology, mechanisms, and integration-based cognition. Three contrasting kinds of new work on mental disorder are critically discussed: enactive, ecological and active inference approaches, drawing from work by Varela, Gibson and Friston. These are detailed together with debates about their similarities and differences. All of these po…
Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life
How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence? In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on 'everyday life' that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which we term 'niche sociality'. First, we use Gibson's niches and affordances to enrich the post-representationalist understanding of human beings …
Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity
Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing 'mental health'. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in conditions of adversity requires us to open up the black box of 'environment', and to develop a vitalist biosocial science, informed by and in conversation with the life sciences and the neurosciences. In this paper we draw on both classical and contemporary social theory to begin this task. We …
Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union
First published in 1980, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union examines the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on what constitutes a socialist form of provision of social security, income, education, health and housing. The authors discuss the implementation of these ideas in the Soviet Union since the 1917 Revolution in the context of economic and political development, and describe the social services in the Soviet Union, assessing the ex…
Work and Welfare in the New Russia
This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is emerging in the former Soviet Union.' This book reports on the crisis through original and detailed data made possible by the changes that have taken place in Russia in the 1990s. Based on an EU and ODA funded project, it examines in depth the patterns of contemporary unemployment and poverty, the origins of Russian socia…
Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health
This paper examines the way in which sociology and biology continue to struggle to understand why urban life creates high levels of mental disorder. The movement of the world population to be majority urban in recent years adds urgency to this issue. The paper addresses ways in which sociological analysis and biological analysis might work together through the identification of mechanisms, imagined and confirmed through data, of the way in which …
Capoeira for beginners: Self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas
Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement. A beginners’ course of capoeira was provided to participants, free of charge, in an English city in the West Midlands—new capoeiristas in a new venue for capoeira. Researchers attended classes to co…
An analysis of the R esearch T eam– S ervice U ser relationship from the S ervice U ser perspective: A consideration of ‘ T he T hree R s’ (Roles, Relations, and Responsibilities) for healthcare resea…
BACKGROUND: This article debates interview data from service users who engaged with the work of a Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). The evidence base, to date, concerning the nature of CLAHRC work at the frontline (i.e. What is it actually like to do CLAHRC work?) is meagre; thus, this article represents an original contribution to that literature. Further, this article analyses service users' participatio…
Commentary: Let's Find Out More about Preemptive Blame Shifting
Fukuyama Is Right about Measuring State Quality: Now What
Much has recently been written about how to best measure governance or “state quality.” Should we evaluate government performance by looking at what government achieves (outputs) as Robert Rotberg and Craig Boardman recently suggested? Or should we focus on measuring state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy, as Francis Fukuyama concludes? This commentary argues in support of Fukuyama's approach by using a public administration lens to disaggregat…
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
The World Bank’s Approach to Public Sector Management
La stratégie de gestion du secteur public de la banque mondiale
L'article introduit le thème traité dans ce numéro spécial de la revue : mise en perspective des réformes de la gestion du secteur public (Public sector management, ou PSM), définies dans un document de 2012 (la "Stratégie"), et de leur importance pour les pays en développement ; évaluation de ces réformes ; leçons à tirer dans le cas du Sierra Leone ; et préconisations pour l'avenir
The Reform of Health Policy in China – Left Behind in the Race to Industrialize
A major programme of health reform was announced in 2009. China is growing fast, and is beginning to engage with the international social policy community to discuss and review the consequences of rapid industrialization. As a specific part of social policy, health policy shares some of the characteristics of a policy area driven by the consequences of industrialization, but it also has its own particular features. This article reviews the genera…
Building States to Build Peace
How can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? And what role should international actors play in supporting the vital process? Addressing these questions, the authors of Building States to Peace explore the core challenges involved in institutionalizing postconflict states. The combination of thematic chapters and in-depth case studies covers the full range of the most vexing and diverse problems con…
Globalization and Mental Health: A Special Issue of Global Social Policy
International audience
The State and International Development Management: Commentary from International Development Management Practitioners
Contesting Psychiatry, Social Movements in Mental Health – By N. Crossley
Turkey, the EU and Social Policy
This paper considers what we might expect to be the effect on social policy of Turkish accession to the EU by reviewing the impact of EU membership on social policy in other new member and candidate countries. This effect begins long before membership is finalised, and continues long after membership has been achieved. The patterns of impact can be divided along a number of dimensions: between ‘accession’ and ‘enlargement’; state and civil societ…
The Origins and Essence of US Social Policy: On Taxonomies, Time and Transfers
Our understanding of US social policy has not been advanced by the classification of welfare states that has dominated social policy analysis in recent years. But in biology and cosmology we can find useful examples of the way in which we can develop more theoretically informed and dynamic classifications. A common feature has been the incorporation of time and developmental paths into classification. The way in which social and political develop…
DSM-IV and dangerous and severe personality disorder-an essay
Reforming Fiscal and Economic Management in Afghanistan
"Reforming Fiscal and Economic Management in Afghanistan sets out the impressive policy and institutional reforms made by the interim and transitional administrations of Afghanistan since the Bonn conference in November 2001. It explores the complexities of managing the significant amount of development assistance and donor interest while balancing the need to respond to donor priorities and to build strong public-sector institutions. The book de…
Diversity and Change in Pre-Accession Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
In 2004 eight Central and East European countries are joining the EU. This article explores the changes that have overtaken those countries since the 1989 transition from communism. It begins with a note on the alternative sources of data that might be used, and the difficulties of arriving at a summary of the nature of social policy development and the social conditions that have evolved in the countries. It then presents an analysis of the broa…
Global Social Policy Forum
Gender and social policy: Comparing welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
How are the distinctive gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union changing? What is the impact of the transition - and especially of the loss of state expenditure and state legitimacy - on women as paid workers, partners/wives, mothers, carers and citizens? Have women become more familialized as a result of transition processes? The Monee statistical database of 27 countries, and policy questionnaires to 12, show gr…
The Legacy of the New Public Management in Developing Countries
Introduction ‘New Public Management’ is now a somewhat dated label. It was always a complex and far from consistent set of ideas, and from the first spotting of the trend it was often derided as a useful model for developing countries to follow. The conflicting mix of suspicion and enthusiasm that surrounded the NPM debate in the 1980s and early 1990s (see, for example, Spann, 1981; Osborne and Gaebler 1992) gave way to a more thoughtful skeptici…
Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: Personality Disorder, Science and Professional Legitimacy
Why has there been a very rapid elaboration of the category of personality disorder within psychiatric classifications over the last 20 years? Personality disorder is the site of considerable psychiatric controversy. Its classification, diagnosis, and treatment are disputed not only within psychiatry, but also in closely related fields of forensic and psychological work. For severe cases, the Home Secretary in Britain has recently suggested that …
Diversity and Change in Pre-Accession Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
In 2004 eight Central and East European countries are joining the EU. This article explores the changes that have overtaken those countries since the 1989 transition from communism. It begins with a note on the alternative sources of data that might be used, and the difficulties of arriving at a summary of the nature of social policy development and the social conditions that have evolved in the countries. It then presents an analysis of the broa…
Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity
Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing 'mental health'. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in conditions of adversity requires us to open up the black box of 'environment', and to develop a vitalist biosocial science, informed by and in conversation with the life sciences and the neurosciences. In this paper we draw on both classical and contemporary social theory to begin this task. We …
Second-Generation Governance Indicators
This article summarizes progress made in a World Bank initiative funded by the UK Department for International Development to test and develop policy-relevant,politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two majorprinciples involved in the process of generating indicators that are useful for practical reforms. Political acceptability is key in developing neutral quantitative benchmarks of good governance that can be em…
Do Ministers do what they Say? Ministerial Unreliability, Collegial and Hierarchical Governments
This paper is concerned with the extent to which individual members of governments reliably implement the decisions of the governments to which they belong, a matter which is rarely discussed, if ever, and yet can be critical for the operation of national executives. After a general presentation of the problem, the paper examines the reasons why members of collegial governments are more likely to be reliable than members of hierarchical governmen…
Actor networks, policy networks and personality disorder
In this paper two disparate areas of social science theory, actor-network theory and policy networks, will be brought to bear on the problem of explaining the rapid development of an area of medical science and health policy in the UK. There has been a surge of interest in the treatment and management of personality disorder from within both the psychiatric profession and government ministries, and particularly those personality disorders deemed …
Fukuyama Is Right about Measuring State Quality: Now What
Much has recently been written about how to best measure governance or “state quality.” Should we evaluate government performance by looking at what government achieves (outputs) as Robert Rotberg and Craig Boardman recently suggested? Or should we focus on measuring state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy, as Francis Fukuyama concludes? This commentary argues in support of Fukuyama's approach by using a public administration lens to disaggregat…
Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health
This paper examines the way in which sociology and biology continue to struggle to understand why urban life creates high levels of mental disorder. The movement of the world population to be majority urban in recent years adds urgency to this issue. The paper addresses ways in which sociological analysis and biological analysis might work together through the identification of mechanisms, imagined and confirmed through data, of the way in which …
Public Management Reform: A Global Perspective
This article summarises the results of a ‘broad brush’ global survey of ‘new forms’ of public management. The survey supports the view that the spread of the new forms cannot be seen as a global ‘paradigm shift’ in public management. However the new forms are increasingly found beyond the core set of OECD countries usually given as examples of reforming countries. The survey suggests that globalisation processes are increasing the amount of ‘less…
DSM-IV and dangerous and severe personality disorder-an essay
Sociological Approaches to Health and Medicine
Social policy in the USSR and the nature of Soviet society
empirical guide to the pattern of consumption, and as a theoretical guide impirical guide to the pattern of consumotion, and as a theoretical guide to the relations of production and reproduction now developing. Several different models of the Soviet mode of production are examined against the development of social policy, in an attempt in throw some light ar current disugreements about he current situation the USSR
Mental Health and Social Order
The Transferability of Welfare Models: A Comparison of the Scandinavian and State Socialist Models in Relation to Finland and Estonia
In this paper, two examples of the close relationship between a national social welfare system, and explicit transnational influences are discussed. Both the state socialist and Scandinavian models have a recognized structure independent of the particular countries in which they have been implemented, although they are both associated with a home base, Russia and Sweden respectively. Our examples, Estonia and Finland, faced both common and specif…
Patterns of environmental movements in eastern Europe
Environmental movements played an important part in the transitions of 1989/1991. They grew steadily in the early 1980s, and rapidly by the late 1980s. Now they have shrunk considerably. They fed on a legacy of environmental damage, but the pattern of their growth across different countries has varied. There have been notable turning points: ‘phosphorite wars’ in Estonia; Baikal and Chernobyl in Russia; the Danube dam in Hungary. Yet the relative…
Values and Practice in the Therapeutic Community
This paper considers the problem of putting ideology into practice. The radical idea of the therapeutic community within psychiatry in the 1950s never became completely translated into action. This ideal-real discrepancy is explored for a major therapeutic community established in the 1950s, Henderson Hospital, and a comparison is made between staff and patient treatment values and their evaluation of the helpfulness of actual group practice over…
Innovation in Social Policy - the Case of the Therapeutic Community
Students of social policy have studied in some depth the fate of new ideas when they came close to inclusion in new policies, and especially new legislation. Less attention has been paid to the process whereby new ideas are generated, and the impact of advocacy on the future of simultaneous but independent innovation. Here, the therapeutic community, developed during the last war in response to largely neurotic difficulties in military personnel,…
Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life
How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence? In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on 'everyday life' that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which we term 'niche sociality'. First, we use Gibson's niches and affordances to enrich the post-representationalist understanding of human beings …
La stratégie de gestion du secteur public de la banque mondiale
L'article introduit le thème traité dans ce numéro spécial de la revue : mise en perspective des réformes de la gestion du secteur public (Public sector management, ou PSM), définies dans un document de 2012 (la "Stratégie"), et de leur importance pour les pays en développement ; évaluation de ces réformes ; leçons à tirer dans le cas du Sierra Leone ; et préconisations pour l'avenir
Globalization and Mental Health: A Special Issue of Global Social Policy
International audience
The State and International Development Management: Commentary from International Development Management Practitioners
Turkey, the EU and Social Policy
This paper considers what we might expect to be the effect on social policy of Turkish accession to the EU by reviewing the impact of EU membership on social policy in other new member and candidate countries. This effect begins long before membership is finalised, and continues long after membership has been achieved. The patterns of impact can be divided along a number of dimensions: between ‘accession’ and ‘enlargement’; state and civil societ…
The Origins and Essence of US Social Policy: On Taxonomies, Time and Transfers
Our understanding of US social policy has not been advanced by the classification of welfare states that has dominated social policy analysis in recent years. But in biology and cosmology we can find useful examples of the way in which we can develop more theoretically informed and dynamic classifications. A common feature has been the incorporation of time and developmental paths into classification. The way in which social and political develop…
Rejection and reincorporation: A case study in social research utilisation
Values and Practice in the Therapeutic Community
This paper considers the problem of putting ideology into practice. The radical idea of the therapeutic community within psychiatry in the 1950s never became completely translated into action. This ideal-real discrepancy is explored for a major therapeutic community established in the 1950s, Henderson Hospital, and a comparison is made between staff and patient treatment values and their evaluation of the helpfulness of actual group practice over…
Innovation in Social Policy - the Case of the Therapeutic Community
Students of social policy have studied in some depth the fate of new ideas when they came close to inclusion in new policies, and especially new legislation. Less attention has been paid to the process whereby new ideas are generated, and the impact of advocacy on the future of simultaneous but independent innovation. Here, the therapeutic community, developed during the last war in response to largely neurotic difficulties in military personnel,…
How to Make Sorghum Molasses
Health care Policy in the Soviet Union
Social policy in the USSR and the nature of Soviet society
empirical guide to the pattern of consumption, and as a theoretical guide impirical guide to the pattern of consumotion, and as a theoretical guide to the relations of production and reproduction now developing. Several different models of the Soviet mode of production are examined against the development of social policy, in an attempt in throw some light ar current disugreements about he current situation the USSR
Sociological Approaches to Health and Medicine
Sociological Approaches to Health and Medicine
T.H. Marshall, Jurgen Habermas, citizenship and transition in Eastern Europe
Public Management Reform: A Global Perspective
This article summarises the results of a ‘broad brush’ global survey of ‘new forms’ of public management. The survey supports the view that the spread of the new forms cannot be seen as a global ‘paradigm shift’ in public management. However the new forms are increasingly found beyond the core set of OECD countries usually given as examples of reforming countries. The survey suggests that globalisation processes are increasing the amount of ‘less…
The Transferability of Welfare Models: A Comparison of the Scandinavian and State Socialist Models in Relation to Finland and Estonia
In this paper, two examples of the close relationship between a national social welfare system, and explicit transnational influences are discussed. Both the state socialist and Scandinavian models have a recognized structure independent of the particular countries in which they have been implemented, although they are both associated with a home base, Russia and Sweden respectively. Our examples, Estonia and Finland, faced both common and specif…
Patterns of environmental movements in eastern Europe
Environmental movements played an important part in the transitions of 1989/1991. They grew steadily in the early 1980s, and rapidly by the late 1980s. Now they have shrunk considerably. They fed on a legacy of environmental damage, but the pattern of their growth across different countries has varied. There have been notable turning points: ‘phosphorite wars’ in Estonia; Baikal and Chernobyl in Russia; the Danube dam in Hungary. Yet the relative…
Using an Ombudsman to Oversee Public Officials
The note addresses the role of ombudsman offices, and what ensures its effectiveness. Good administration requires much more than acting legally, which include constitutional, and human rights abuses, mismanagement, as well as illegal practices. An ombudsman's independence from other branches of government, and administration, particularly the executive branch, is a crucial factor, following the legal provisions on its appointment, dismissal, pow…
Introduction: New Risks, New Welfare: Signposts for Social Policy
Mental Health and Social Order
Gender and social policy: Comparing welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
How are the distinctive gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union changing? What is the impact of the transition - and especially of the loss of state expenditure and state legitimacy - on women as paid workers, partners/wives, mothers, carers and citizens? Have women become more familialized as a result of transition processes? The Monee statistical database of 27 countries, and policy questionnaires to 12, show gr…
Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: Personality Disorder, Science and Professional Legitimacy
Why has there been a very rapid elaboration of the category of personality disorder within psychiatric classifications over the last 20 years? Personality disorder is the site of considerable psychiatric controversy. Its classification, diagnosis, and treatment are disputed not only within psychiatry, but also in closely related fields of forensic and psychological work. For severe cases, the Home Secretary in Britain has recently suggested that …
The Legacy of the New Public Management in Developing Countries
Introduction ‘New Public Management’ is now a somewhat dated label. It was always a complex and far from consistent set of ideas, and from the first spotting of the trend it was often derided as a useful model for developing countries to follow. The conflicting mix of suspicion and enthusiasm that surrounded the NPM debate in the 1980s and early 1990s (see, for example, Spann, 1981; Osborne and Gaebler 1992) gave way to a more thoughtful skeptici…
Revue des revues
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Do Ministers do what they Say? Ministerial Unreliability, Collegial and Hierarchical Governments
This paper is concerned with the extent to which individual members of governments reliably implement the decisions of the governments to which they belong, a matter which is rarely discussed, if ever, and yet can be critical for the operation of national executives. After a general presentation of the problem, the paper examines the reasons why members of collegial governments are more likely to be reliable than members of hierarchical governmen…
Actor networks, policy networks and personality disorder
In this paper two disparate areas of social science theory, actor-network theory and policy networks, will be brought to bear on the problem of explaining the rapid development of an area of medical science and health policy in the UK. There has been a surge of interest in the treatment and management of personality disorder from within both the psychiatric profession and government ministries, and particularly those personality disorders deemed …
Global Social Policy Forum
What Have Been the Benefits of Globalization for Eastern Europe
Second-Generation Governance Indicators
This article summarizes progress made in a World Bank initiative funded by the UK Department for International Development to test and develop policy-relevant,politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two majorprinciples involved in the process of generating indicators that are useful for practical reforms. Political acceptability is key in developing neutral quantitative benchmarks of good governance that can be em…
Reforming Fiscal and Economic Management in Afghanistan
"Reforming Fiscal and Economic Management in Afghanistan sets out the impressive policy and institutional reforms made by the interim and transitional administrations of Afghanistan since the Bonn conference in November 2001. It explores the complexities of managing the significant amount of development assistance and donor interest while balancing the need to respond to donor priorities and to build strong public-sector institutions. The book de…
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