Emma Clarence
Biographic Data
| ID | 289101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Clarence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarence |
| SIGNATURE | CLARENCE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ministerial responsibility and the Scottish Qualifications Agency
The Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) is charged with the task of overseeing school–based qualifications in Scotland. However, for the 2000 exam diet the SQA failed to produce either timely or accurate exam results. The events surrounding this failure, accompanied by the responsible minister’s explanation of his own actions and inactions, brought to the fore issues of responsibility and accountability. The unresolved nature of accountability a…
Technocracy Reinvented
UK Local Action Zones and Changing Urban Governance
This article deals with UK Education and Health Action Zones, area-based partnership programmes, taking account of New Labour's 'modernising government' agenda and the academic partnership literature. Formative zone experiences again highlight major obstacles to effective local partnership working, exacerbated by the essentially top-down nature of the initiatives, albeit accommodating realities on the ground. Despite at one level prioritising cha…
Citizenship and Identity
National identity plays an important role in identifying who we are as individuals. However, we are not born with a sense of national identity, it has to be inculcated. What it means to belong to a particular nation, to have a sense of that identity, is constructed by a diverse range of forces, including governments, the media and the community lived in. This chapter sets out to explore how the federal government of Australia sought to construct …
Public Services under New Labour
A by-product of the fragmentation of services that occurred at local government level under the Conservative Government was the emergence of networks and other forms of joint working. These became formalised particularly through various economic and urban regeneration schemes. But elsewhere they were often an ad hoc response to the changing local governance structures. The election of the Labour Government in 1997 has, this article contends, seen…
The implications of globalization in the construction of the Australian ‘nation
Technocracy Reinvented
UK Local Action Zones and Changing Urban Governance
This article deals with UK Education and Health Action Zones, area-based partnership programmes, taking account of New Labour's 'modernising government' agenda and the academic partnership literature. Formative zone experiences again highlight major obstacles to effective local partnership working, exacerbated by the essentially top-down nature of the initiatives, albeit accommodating realities on the ground. Despite at one level prioritising cha…
Public Services under New Labour
A by-product of the fragmentation of services that occurred at local government level under the Conservative Government was the emergence of networks and other forms of joint working. These became formalised particularly through various economic and urban regeneration schemes. But elsewhere they were often an ad hoc response to the changing local governance structures. The election of the Labour Government in 1997 has, this article contends, seen…
Ministerial responsibility and the Scottish Qualifications Agency
The Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) is charged with the task of overseeing school–based qualifications in Scotland. However, for the 2000 exam diet the SQA failed to produce either timely or accurate exam results. The events surrounding this failure, accompanied by the responsible minister’s explanation of his own actions and inactions, brought to the fore issues of responsibility and accountability. The unresolved nature of accountability a…
The implications of globalization in the construction of the Australian ‘nation
Public Services under New Labour
A by-product of the fragmentation of services that occurred at local government level under the Conservative Government was the emergence of networks and other forms of joint working. These became formalised particularly through various economic and urban regeneration schemes. But elsewhere they were often an ad hoc response to the changing local governance structures. The election of the Labour Government in 1997 has, this article contends, seen…
The implications of globalization in the construction of the Australian ‘nation
Citizenship and Identity
National identity plays an important role in identifying who we are as individuals. However, we are not born with a sense of national identity, it has to be inculcated. What it means to belong to a particular nation, to have a sense of that identity, is constructed by a diverse range of forces, including governments, the media and the community lived in. This chapter sets out to explore how the federal government of Australia sought to construct …
UK Local Action Zones and Changing Urban Governance
This article deals with UK Education and Health Action Zones, area-based partnership programmes, taking account of New Labour's 'modernising government' agenda and the academic partnership literature. Formative zone experiences again highlight major obstacles to effective local partnership working, exacerbated by the essentially top-down nature of the initiatives, albeit accommodating realities on the ground. Despite at one level prioritising cha…
Ministerial responsibility and the Scottish Qualifications Agency
The Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) is charged with the task of overseeing school–based qualifications in Scotland. However, for the 2000 exam diet the SQA failed to produce either timely or accurate exam results. The events surrounding this failure, accompanied by the responsible minister’s explanation of his own actions and inactions, brought to the fore issues of responsibility and accountability. The unresolved nature of accountability a…
Technocracy Reinvented
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · General partnership (2 works)