Vicky Randall
Biographic Data
| ID | 272859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicky Randall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicky |
| FAMILY NAME | Randall |
| SIGNATURE | RANDALL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4923-3070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 393 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The purpose of primary physical education
This paper reports on the first phase of a longitudinal project investigating the perceived purposes that different stakeholders have for primary physical education (PE). In the study, the views of 19 teacher educators from seven countries across Europe were sought. While teacher educators may have some influence across the layers of an education system, little is known about this stakeholder group and their views about primary PE. Analysis of fo…
Enabling dialogic, democratic research
Philosophy for Children is a pedagogical approach practised worldwide.Although well known for its contribution to democratic teaching and learning its contribution to critical research is relatively unknown.In this paper we present the use of a Community of Enquiry (CoE), as conceptualised in Philosophy for Children, as a qualitative research method that foregrounds participant voice.Framed through Freirean critical pedagogy and social transforma…
The Romance of the Republic
This article repositions Thomas Arnold as a major nineteenth-century historian through an analysis of his most important work, the History of Rome (1838-42). While scholars have focused primarily on Arnold's role as headmaster of Rugby School and Liberal Anglican theologian, I examine his historical contribution in the context of the Romantic movement. Building on the work of B. G. Niebuhr and Giambattista Vico, Arnold interpreted the contest bet…
A realist case study inquiry of English primary school physical activity initiatives
Concern that children are not engaging in enough physical activity (PA) to bring about health benefits is a crisis globally. This paper aims to examine primary school-based PA initiatives from within an English context. A qualitative inquiry was adopted and underpinned by the socio-ecological model. The study was presented through a realist case study of three selected primary schools to reveal a collection of context-mechanism-outcome statements…
Women’s activism in Africa
Women’s activism in Africa: Struggles for rights and representation." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 56(1), pp. 124–125
Politics in the Developing World
"An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The first four parts explore the theoretical approaches, the changing nature and role of the state, and the major policy issues that confront all developing countries. The final parts set out a diverse range of country case studies, representing all the main geographical regions. These country case studies…
Intersecting Identities
This article discusses older women's participation in local political parties in the London area. Its analytical framework draws on intersectionality as a perspective together with feminist political science and political gerontology. Empirically, it refers to research in seven parliamentary constituencies, based primarily on semi-structured interviews, focusing on roles, activities and contribution; underlying motivation; and experiences of marg…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Studying British politics
The politics of old age
The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany
Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy
Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy: The Political Culture of Gender and Nation, by Heather Nunn." , 25(3), pp. 338–339
Political Parties and Social Structure in the Developing World
Legislative Gender Quotas and Indian Exceptionalism
In 1996 the Indian government introduced the Constitution (8 1st Amendment) Bill. This bill proposed that 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha (national parliament) and in state-level assemblies be reserved for women. In those constituencies, all contesting political parties would only run women candidates. After inconclusive debate, it was referred to a joint select committee, one-third of whose members were women MPs. The committee reported at …
Childcare Policy and Local Partnerships under Labour
This article is concerned with explaining the relatively disappointing results of the Labour government's National Childcare Strategy to date, with particular emphasis on the role of the EYDCPs (Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships). After briefly describing and assessing childcare policy under Labour, it suggests that limited outcomes partly reflect the constraining legacy of previous policy and provision, but must also be related …
Gender in Contemporary British Politics
Using and abusing the concept of the Third World
This article argues that, while the notion of a ‘Third World’ retains relevance and usefulness in the context of geopolitical analysis, generalisations about Third World politics are no longer helpful or justifiable. It begins by reviewing the historic rationales for the notion of the Third World together with criticisms made of these arguments. It then considers reasons why the term may retain some value at a geopolitical level: in signalling a …
The making of local child daycare regimes
English The government's new child daycare policy, based on local ‘partnerships’, must reckon with tremendous local diversity of provision. This article draws on case studies of six English local authorities – Barnet, Kensington and Chelsea, Leeds, Manchester, Oxfordshire and North Tyneside – first to characterise more fully this variation of local daycare regimes and second, to explore the role played in shaping and modifying these regimes by lo…
Introduction
2002). Introduction: The Contribution of Parties to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation. Democratization: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1-10
Party Institutionalization in New Democracies
The literature on democratisation emphasises the contribution of political parties, and in that context the importance of party institutionalization. But this concept remains relatively unexplored. Our article first considers the relationship between party institutionalization and party system institutionalization, pointing out that they are not necessarily convergent. We then review the existing literature on party institutionalization, indicati…
Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Africa
It has been assumed that African political parties should play a key role in democratic consolidation. This article first assesses their performance in terms of particular democratic functional requirements. Second, it seeks to explain apparent shortcomings in their performance by reference to the imbalance of party systems and 'weakness' of parties, especially opposition parties, and also by reference to certain underlying factors. These include…
Child day care provision
Drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, this article seeks to account for variation in the amount and forms of child day care provision amongst British local authorities. Amongst relevant local factors it notes the legacy of earlier child care provision. It considers the association between provision and indicators of need on the one hand and political motivation on the other. Finally it looks at the process of policy makin…
Introduction
Rethinking the Canon
Childcare policy in the European states
In the 1970s childcare provision and policy varied markedly between European Community member states. A number of subsequent developments including the growing numbers of working mothers and single-parent families, shifts in national welfare and labour market policy priorities, developments in European Union (EU) childcare policy and the impact of feminism might be expected to have encouraged convergence. This article uses available comparative d…
Party Institutionalization in New Democracies
The literature on democratisation emphasises the contribution of political parties, and in that context the importance of party institutionalization. But this concept remains relatively unexplored. Our article first considers the relationship between party institutionalization and party system institutionalization, pointing out that they are not necessarily convergent. We then review the existing literature on party institutionalization, indicati…
Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Africa
It has been assumed that African political parties should play a key role in democratic consolidation. This article first assesses their performance in terms of particular democratic functional requirements. Second, it seeks to explain apparent shortcomings in their performance by reference to the imbalance of party systems and 'weakness' of parties, especially opposition parties, and also by reference to certain underlying factors. These include…
Introduction
2002). Introduction: The Contribution of Parties to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation. Democratization: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1-10
Women and politics in the Third World
Journal Article Women and politics in the Third World Get access Women and politics in the Third World. Edited by Haleh Afshar. London: Routledge. 1996. 210pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 415 13853 1. Pb.: £12.99; ISBN 0 415 13861 2. Vicky Randall Vicky Randall 1Essex University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 571, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624297 Publish…
Childcare policy in the European states
In the 1970s childcare provision and policy varied markedly between European Community member states. A number of subsequent developments including the growing numbers of working mothers and single-parent families, shifts in national welfare and labour market policy priorities, developments in European Union (EU) childcare policy and the impact of feminism might be expected to have encouraged convergence. This article uses available comparative d…
Feminism and Political Analysis
Though not a united body of thought, feminism insists on the importance of women and the need to combat their oppression. This agenda has underlain feminists' attempts to identify an appropriate research method and their criticisms of traditional social science methodology. In some cases it has led to the repudiation of ‘male’ science and epistemology altogether. Feminist political scientists to date have shown less interest in methodological iss…
Legislative Gender Quotas and Indian Exceptionalism
In 1996 the Indian government introduced the Constitution (8 1st Amendment) Bill. This bill proposed that 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha (national parliament) and in state-level assemblies be reserved for women. In those constituencies, all contesting political parties would only run women candidates. After inconclusive debate, it was referred to a joint select committee, one-third of whose members were women MPs. The committee reported at …
The media and democratisation in the Third World
(1993). The media and democratisation in the Third World. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 625-646
Intersecting Identities
This article discusses older women's participation in local political parties in the London area. Its analytical framework draws on intersectionality as a perspective together with feminist political science and political gerontology. Empirically, it refers to research in seven parliamentary constituencies, based primarily on semi-structured interviews, focusing on roles, activities and contribution; underlying motivation; and experiences of marg…
Childcare Policy and Local Partnerships under Labour
This article is concerned with explaining the relatively disappointing results of the Labour government's National Childcare Strategy to date, with particular emphasis on the role of the EYDCPs (Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships). After briefly describing and assessing childcare policy under Labour, it suggests that limited outcomes partly reflect the constraining legacy of previous policy and provision, but must also be related …
The Irresponsible State? The Politics of Child Daycare Provision in Britain
This article seeks to shed light on the scarcity of public child daycare provision in Britain. Following a brief account of the development of policy since the Second World War, it notes the institutional and discursive fragmentation of the process through which child-care policy has been resolved. However, it concentrates on the way that process has been shaped by the intersection of two variables, the type of issue constituted by child care and…
The making of local child daycare regimes
English The government's new child daycare policy, based on local ‘partnerships’, must reckon with tremendous local diversity of provision. This article draws on case studies of six English local authorities – Barnet, Kensington and Chelsea, Leeds, Manchester, Oxfordshire and North Tyneside – first to characterise more fully this variation of local daycare regimes and second, to explore the role played in shaping and modifying these regimes by lo…
Gender in Contemporary British Politics
Using and abusing the concept of the Third World
This article argues that, while the notion of a ‘Third World’ retains relevance and usefulness in the context of geopolitical analysis, generalisations about Third World politics are no longer helpful or justifiable. It begins by reviewing the historic rationales for the notion of the Third World together with criticisms made of these arguments. It then considers reasons why the term may retain some value at a geopolitical level: in signalling a …
Feminism and Child Daycare
This article explores some of the main reasons why feminist mobilisation around the issue of child daycare in Britain has been so limited and its impact so modest. It describes this mobilisation, comparing it with experience in other countries and with mobilisation on other issues. It suggests that the modest achievement to date is largely attributable to factors other than the lack of feminist pressure. Indeed feminist reservations were partly a…
Feature reviews
Rethinking the Third World. Rosemary Galli (ed), New York: Crane Russack, 1992 Rethinking Third World Politics. James Manor (ed), London: Longman, 1991 Reducing hunger: public works not new seeds Hunger and Public Action. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 373pp. £27.50 hb New Seeds and Poor People. Michael Lipton with Richard Longhurst, London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. 473pp. £35.00 hb / £12.95 pb
The purpose of primary physical education
This paper reports on the first phase of a longitudinal project investigating the perceived purposes that different stakeholders have for primary physical education (PE). In the study, the views of 19 teacher educators from seven countries across Europe were sought. While teacher educators may have some influence across the layers of an education system, little is known about this stakeholder group and their views about primary PE. Analysis of fo…
Enabling dialogic, democratic research
Philosophy for Children is a pedagogical approach practised worldwide.Although well known for its contribution to democratic teaching and learning its contribution to critical research is relatively unknown.In this paper we present the use of a Community of Enquiry (CoE), as conceptualised in Philosophy for Children, as a qualitative research method that foregrounds participant voice.Framed through Freirean critical pedagogy and social transforma…
Introduction
Cautionary notes on democratisation
Women and the left in Western Europe
Feminism in Europe: Liberal and Socialist Strategies 1789–1919. By Maria Mies and Kumari Jaywardena. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, 1983. Pp.208. Sisters or Citizens? Woman and Socialism in France Since 1876. By Charles Sowerwine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.248. £16.40. Enquête sur les femmes et la politique en France. By Janine Mossuz‐Lavau and Mariette Sineau. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983. Pp.280. …
Teaching about Women and Politics
Women and the left in Western Europe
Feminism in Europe: Liberal and Socialist Strategies 1789–1919. By Maria Mies and Kumari Jaywardena. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, 1983. Pp.208. Sisters or Citizens? Woman and Socialism in France Since 1876. By Charles Sowerwine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.248. £16.40. Enquête sur les femmes et la politique en France. By Janine Mossuz‐Lavau and Mariette Sineau. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983. Pp.280. …
Women and Politics
Third World Politics
An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy
Women and the State
Books
Nelson Mandela, The Struggle is My Life London: IDAF Publications, 1990, 287 pp., £4.99 p.b. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics London: Pandora, 1989, 244 pp., £8.99 p.b. Commission for Racial Equality, Law, Blasphemy and the Multi‐Faith Society, Report of a Seminar London: CRE and the Inter‐Faith Network for the United Kingdom, 1989, 99 pp., £1.50 Commission for Racial Equality, Free Speech…
Feminism and Political Analysis
Though not a united body of thought, feminism insists on the importance of women and the need to combat their oppression. This agenda has underlain feminists' attempts to identify an appropriate research method and their criticisms of traditional social science methodology. In some cases it has led to the repudiation of ‘male’ science and epistemology altogether. Feminist political scientists to date have shown less interest in methodological iss…
Feature reviews
Rethinking the Third World. Rosemary Galli (ed), New York: Crane Russack, 1992 Rethinking Third World Politics. James Manor (ed), London: Longman, 1991 Reducing hunger: public works not new seeds Hunger and Public Action. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 373pp. £27.50 hb New Seeds and Poor People. Michael Lipton with Richard Longhurst, London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. 473pp. £35.00 hb / £12.95 pb
The media and democratisation in the Third World
(1993). The media and democratisation in the Third World. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 625-646
Cooking under the Volcanoes
The Irresponsible State? The Politics of Child Daycare Provision in Britain
This article seeks to shed light on the scarcity of public child daycare provision in Britain. Following a brief account of the development of policy since the Second World War, it notes the institutional and discursive fragmentation of the process through which child-care policy has been resolved. However, it concentrates on the way that process has been shaped by the intersection of two variables, the type of issue constituted by child care and…
Cautionary notes on democratisation
Book notes
Human Rights and the Making of Constitutions: Malawi, Kenya, Uganda edited by Joanna Lewis, Peggy Owens and Louise Pirouet. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, African Studies Centre, 1995. Pp.135. £4.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 90293 31 3 On the Shores of Politics by Jacques Rancière. Translated by Liz Heron. London: Verso, 1995, Pp.vii + 107. £34.95 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 86091 467 4 and 637 5 Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements a…
Feminism and Child Daycare
This article explores some of the main reasons why feminist mobilisation around the issue of child daycare in Britain has been so limited and its impact so modest. It describes this mobilisation, comparing it with experience in other countries and with mobilisation on other issues. It suggests that the modest achievement to date is largely attributable to factors other than the lack of feminist pressure. Indeed feminist reservations were partly a…
Women and politics in the Third World
Journal Article Women and politics in the Third World Get access Women and politics in the Third World. Edited by Haleh Afshar. London: Routledge. 1996. 210pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 415 13853 1. Pb.: £12.99; ISBN 0 415 13861 2. Vicky Randall Vicky Randall 1Essex University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 571, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624297 Publish…
Concluding comments
Rethinking the Canon
Childcare policy in the European states
In the 1970s childcare provision and policy varied markedly between European Community member states. A number of subsequent developments including the growing numbers of working mothers and single-parent families, shifts in national welfare and labour market policy priorities, developments in European Union (EU) childcare policy and the impact of feminism might be expected to have encouraged convergence. This article uses available comparative d…
Child day care provision
Drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, this article seeks to account for variation in the amount and forms of child day care provision amongst British local authorities. Amongst relevant local factors it notes the legacy of earlier child care provision. It considers the association between provision and indicators of need on the one hand and political motivation on the other. Finally it looks at the process of policy makin…
Introduction
Introduction
2002). Introduction: The Contribution of Parties to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation. Democratization: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1-10
Party Institutionalization in New Democracies
The literature on democratisation emphasises the contribution of political parties, and in that context the importance of party institutionalization. But this concept remains relatively unexplored. Our article first considers the relationship between party institutionalization and party system institutionalization, pointing out that they are not necessarily convergent. We then review the existing literature on party institutionalization, indicati…
Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Africa
It has been assumed that African political parties should play a key role in democratic consolidation. This article first assesses their performance in terms of particular democratic functional requirements. Second, it seeks to explain apparent shortcomings in their performance by reference to the imbalance of party systems and 'weakness' of parties, especially opposition parties, and also by reference to certain underlying factors. These include…
Gender in Contemporary British Politics
Using and abusing the concept of the Third World
This article argues that, while the notion of a ‘Third World’ retains relevance and usefulness in the context of geopolitical analysis, generalisations about Third World politics are no longer helpful or justifiable. It begins by reviewing the historic rationales for the notion of the Third World together with criticisms made of these arguments. It then considers reasons why the term may retain some value at a geopolitical level: in signalling a …
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