Mike Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism
The Territorial Imperative
We need to start building up what's called herd immunity
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, br…
Capitalism's Conscience
Justice and Democracy
This visionary book seeks to uncover the main barriers to achieving greater social justice in existing twenty-first century capitalism. Developing a comprehensive consequentialist theory of justice applied to today’s global situation, Mike Berry adopts the thesis that, in order to move towards a more just world, the weaknesses of liberal democracy must be overcome through reconstructing robust, resilient social democracies.
British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit
This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with former and current senior BBC editors and journalists. The research finds that BBC coverage in the pre-referendum period was closely tied to major eve…
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism
This international edited collection brings together the latest research in political journalism, examining the ideological, commercial and technological forces that are transforming the field and its evolving relationship with news audiences. Comprising 40 original chapters written by scholars from around the world, The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism offers fundamental insights from the disciplines of political science, media, commu…
Neoliberalism and the Media
Austerity, the media and the UK public
The 2008 Great Financial Crisis led to a sharp increase in sovereign debt as states sought to prevent a major depression becoming a slump. This chapter examines how the debates over how to respond to the crisis were covered in the British media and the impact that reporting had on public knowledge and attitudes. To do this it combines thematic content analysis of both print and broadcast coverage with the findings of audience focus groups and pub…
The UK Press and the Deficit Debate
The 2008 financial crisis initially appeared to challenge the sustainability of neoliberal finance capitalism. However, the focus of political and public debate soon shifted to state spending and the need for austerity. This research examines how this shift took place in the British press during 2009. The article begins by charting the rise of neoliberalism and its role in financializing the economy. It then examines how such developments impacte…
No alternative to austerity
This article examines how BBC News at Ten covered the emergence of the UK public deficit debate in 2009. A total of 25 days of coverage drawn from the first seven months of 2009 were subject to a source and thematic content analysis to examine how news bulletins explained the emergence, consequences and possible solutions to the rise in the public deficit. Results indicated that political and financial elites dominated coverage. The consequence w…
Rethinking balance and impartiality in journalism? How the BBC attempted and failed to change the paradigm
This article reconsiders the concepts of balance and impartiality in journalism, in the context of a quantitative content analysis of sourcing patterns in BBC news programming on radio, television and online in 2007 and 2012. Impartiality is the cornerstone of principles of public service broadcasting at the BBC and other broadcasters modelled on it. However, the article suggests that in the case of the BBC, it is principally put into practice th…
Housing Provision and Class Relations Under Capitalism
Brett Christophers and Manuel Aalbers have offered a spirited argument for developing a political economic analysis of housing in contemporary capitalist societies. More ambitiously, they claim that housing - as both use value and exchange value - occupies such a pivotal position in the capitalist economy that its exclusion or decentring impoverishes political economy as a valid scientific project. The first claim is relatively uncontroversial, s…
Neoliberalism and the City
The global financial crisis of 2008 called into question the previous 30 years of economic policy in the major western economies, especially those committed to the neoliberal project. The crisis has shattered that paradigm and opened up an opportunity for progressive debates and policies to emerge, not least in the urban arena, since it is in the city that the failures of market fundamentalism are most obvious and the case for planning, in the br…
Mike Berry’s Response
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
The Today programme and the banking crisis
This research examines how BBC Radio 4’s Today programme reported on the 2008 banking crisis. Six weeks of coverage were analysed in order to identify patterns of source access and how these impacted on the range of debate offered to listeners. Results indicated that City sources dominated coverage, particularly during the two-week period around the British bank rescue plan. The consequence of this was that listeners were offered a prescribed ran…
More Bad News From Israel
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. \n \nThe book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors foc…
Housing and Mortgage Markets in Turbulent Times
This paper presents an account of recent housing and mortgage market developments in Australia viewed from a longer-term perspective. It is argued that Australian housing drivers and outcomes are, to some extent, unique, enabling the sector to withstand the fall-out from the global financial crisis to date. However, they have resulted in increasing problems of housing stress for lower-income and younger households who are finding it increasingly …
Terrorism, Elections, and Democracy
This book examines the influence of terrorist threat in the recent elections in the US, Great Britain, and Russia to analyze the influence of post-9/11 fears on voting behaviour in comparative perspec
‘Bad News from Israel’
Exposes major media bias in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impact this has on public opinion
Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in Addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market
Australia has a significant private rental market with over a quarter of households renting their home from a private landlord. Many of these households are on low incomes and receive assistance from private rental support programs provided by each Australian state and territory. In spite of these large numbers, little is known about the effectiveness of policy initiatives to assist low-income private renters. Limited knowledge of the private ren…
Israel and Palestine
Rethinking balance and impartiality in journalism? How the BBC attempted and failed to change the paradigm
This article reconsiders the concepts of balance and impartiality in journalism, in the context of a quantitative content analysis of sourcing patterns in BBC news programming on radio, television and online in 2007 and 2012. Impartiality is the cornerstone of principles of public service broadcasting at the BBC and other broadcasters modelled on it. However, the article suggests that in the case of the BBC, it is principally put into practice th…
The Today programme and the banking crisis
This research examines how BBC Radio 4’s Today programme reported on the 2008 banking crisis. Six weeks of coverage were analysed in order to identify patterns of source access and how these impacted on the range of debate offered to listeners. Results indicated that City sources dominated coverage, particularly during the two-week period around the British bank rescue plan. The consequence of this was that listeners were offered a prescribed ran…
"Unravelling the "Australian Housing Solution
Australia has long been seen as the prime example of a ?home owning democracy?. More than 50% of the population were home owners by the turn of the 20th century. This figure climbed to 70% in the first 15 years after the Second World War. More than 90% of middle aged and older Australians alive today have owned their dwelling at some stage in their lives. However, in the 1990s there are clear signs that home ownership is on the decline. The propo…
Investment in Rental Housing in Australia
The private rental sector has always been an important part of the Australian housing system. Although declining in relation to home ownership in the two decades after the Second World War, private renting has never fallen below 20 per cent of the total housing stock, a share that it has maintained over the past 40 years. Small, scale petty landlordism has characterised this market sector, with a majority of rental stock owned by individuals. Thi…
Neoliberalism and the City
The global financial crisis of 2008 called into question the previous 30 years of economic policy in the major western economies, especially those committed to the neoliberal project. The crisis has shattered that paradigm and opened up an opportunity for progressive debates and policies to emerge, not least in the urban arena, since it is in the city that the failures of market fundamentalism are most obvious and the case for planning, in the br…
No alternative to austerity
This article examines how BBC News at Ten covered the emergence of the UK public deficit debate in 2009. A total of 25 days of coverage drawn from the first seven months of 2009 were subject to a source and thematic content analysis to examine how news bulletins explained the emergence, consequences and possible solutions to the rise in the public deficit. Results indicated that political and financial elites dominated coverage. The consequence w…
Housing Provision and Class Relations Under Capitalism
Brett Christophers and Manuel Aalbers have offered a spirited argument for developing a political economic analysis of housing in contemporary capitalist societies. More ambitiously, they claim that housing - as both use value and exchange value - occupies such a pivotal position in the capitalist economy that its exclusion or decentring impoverishes political economy as a valid scientific project. The first claim is relatively uncontroversial, s…
Housing and Mortgage Markets in Turbulent Times
This paper presents an account of recent housing and mortgage market developments in Australia viewed from a longer-term perspective. It is argued that Australian housing drivers and outcomes are, to some extent, unique, enabling the sector to withstand the fall-out from the global financial crisis to date. However, they have resulted in increasing problems of housing stress for lower-income and younger households who are finding it increasingly …
Institutional Investment in Rental Housing in Australia
Housing affordability among low-to moderate-income private tenants has been declining over the past 10 years in Australia. This trend has intensified in spite of almost a decade of strong economic growth and low inflation in the Australian economy. An important factor here has been the continuing decline in the stock of rental housing at the low-rent end of the market, especially in the large cities like Sydney and Melbourne. This, in turn, has b…
Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence
Journal Article Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence Get access Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence. By R. HUTCHINGS. (London: Chatham House, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 320. £12.00.) M. J. Berry M. J. Berry University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 929–930, …
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism
This international edited collection brings together the latest research in political journalism, examining the ideological, commercial and technological forces that are transforming the field and its evolving relationship with news audiences. Comprising 40 original chapters written by scholars from around the world, The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism offers fundamental insights from the disciplines of political science, media, commu…
British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit
This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with former and current senior BBC editors and journalists. The research finds that BBC coverage in the pre-referendum period was closely tied to major eve…
Ownership Transfer of Social Housing in the UK
Retrenchment of the public sector as a direct provider of rented accommodation has been accompanied by a growing reliance on housing associations as alternative providers of below‐market rented accommodation in the UK. The most successful vehicle to date (in terms of transferred ownership of units) for growing the not‐for‐profit sector has been so‐called “large‐scale voluntary transfer” of dwellings formerly owned by local authorities. Since the …
We need to start building up what's called herd immunity
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms were muted and partially given. Instead, br…
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence
Journal Article Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence Get access Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence. By R. HUTCHINGS. (London: Chatham House, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 320. £12.00.) M. J. Berry M. J. Berry University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 929–930, …
Perestroika and the changing nature of east-west scientific contacts
Australian Urban and Regional Research
"Unravelling the "Australian Housing Solution
Australia has long been seen as the prime example of a ?home owning democracy?. More than 50% of the population were home owners by the turn of the 20th century. This figure climbed to 70% in the first 15 years after the Second World War. More than 90% of middle aged and older Australians alive today have owned their dwelling at some stage in their lives. However, in the 1990s there are clear signs that home ownership is on the decline. The propo…
Investment in Rental Housing in Australia
The private rental sector has always been an important part of the Australian housing system. Although declining in relation to home ownership in the two decades after the Second World War, private renting has never fallen below 20 per cent of the total housing stock, a share that it has maintained over the past 40 years. Small, scale petty landlordism has characterised this market sector, with a majority of rental stock owned by individuals. Thi…
Melbourne—Is there Life after Florida?1
In his widely read book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida argues that dynamic fast-growing city-regions are those that manage to attract and keep creative workers and entrepreneurs. In this view, the conventional drivers of regional development—efficient economic infrastructure, a large, skill-differentiated, well educated, fed and housed workforce and an existing accumulation of capital assets—are still necessary conditions for ra…
Institutional Investment in Rental Housing in Australia
Housing affordability among low-to moderate-income private tenants has been declining over the past 10 years in Australia. This trend has intensified in spite of almost a decade of strong economic growth and low inflation in the Australian economy. An important factor here has been the continuing decline in the stock of rental housing at the low-rent end of the market, especially in the large cities like Sydney and Melbourne. This, in turn, has b…
Israel and Palestine
Manufacturing Consent? The Israeli Media and the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Ownership Transfer of Social Housing in the UK
Retrenchment of the public sector as a direct provider of rented accommodation has been accompanied by a growing reliance on housing associations as alternative providers of below‐market rented accommodation in the UK. The most successful vehicle to date (in terms of transferred ownership of units) for growing the not‐for‐profit sector has been so‐called “large‐scale voluntary transfer” of dwellings formerly owned by local authorities. Since the …
Making Housing Assistance More Efficient
Housing affordability has declined in a number of countries over the past 20 years. Governments are under increasing pressure to maximise the reach and effectiveness of housing assistance policies to deal with the resulting problems of increasing housing stress. This paper presents a model, based on Monte Carlo simulation, that estimates the expected subsidy costs required for a range of housing assistance policy approaches, assuming that an affo…
Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in Addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market
Australia has a significant private rental market with over a quarter of households renting their home from a private landlord. Many of these households are on low incomes and receive assistance from private rental support programs provided by each Australian state and territory. In spite of these large numbers, little is known about the effectiveness of policy initiatives to assist low-income private renters. Limited knowledge of the private ren…
‘Bad News from Israel’
Exposes major media bias in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impact this has on public opinion
Terrorism, Elections, and Democracy
This book examines the influence of terrorist threat in the recent elections in the US, Great Britain, and Russia to analyze the influence of post-9/11 fears on voting behaviour in comparative perspec
More Bad News From Israel
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. \n \nThe book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors foc…
Housing and Mortgage Markets in Turbulent Times
This paper presents an account of recent housing and mortgage market developments in Australia viewed from a longer-term perspective. It is argued that Australian housing drivers and outcomes are, to some extent, unique, enabling the sector to withstand the fall-out from the global financial crisis to date. However, they have resulted in increasing problems of housing stress for lower-income and younger households who are finding it increasingly …
Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children
This research examines how the media report on sentences given to those who commit serious crimes against children and how this impacts on public knowledge and attitudes. Three months of press and television coverage were analysed in order to establish the editorial lines that are taken in different sections of the media and how they are promoted by selective reporting of sentencing. Results indicate that a small number of very high profile crime…
The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
The Today programme and the banking crisis
This research examines how BBC Radio 4’s Today programme reported on the 2008 banking crisis. Six weeks of coverage were analysed in order to identify patterns of source access and how these impacted on the range of debate offered to listeners. Results indicated that City sources dominated coverage, particularly during the two-week period around the British bank rescue plan. The consequence of this was that listeners were offered a prescribed ran…
Neoliberalism and the City
The global financial crisis of 2008 called into question the previous 30 years of economic policy in the major western economies, especially those committed to the neoliberal project. The crisis has shattered that paradigm and opened up an opportunity for progressive debates and policies to emerge, not least in the urban arena, since it is in the city that the failures of market fundamentalism are most obvious and the case for planning, in the br…
Mike Berry’s Response
Housing Provision and Class Relations Under Capitalism
Brett Christophers and Manuel Aalbers have offered a spirited argument for developing a political economic analysis of housing in contemporary capitalist societies. More ambitiously, they claim that housing - as both use value and exchange value - occupies such a pivotal position in the capitalist economy that its exclusion or decentring impoverishes political economy as a valid scientific project. The first claim is relatively uncontroversial, s…
The UK Press and the Deficit Debate
The 2008 financial crisis initially appeared to challenge the sustainability of neoliberal finance capitalism. However, the focus of political and public debate soon shifted to state spending and the need for austerity. This research examines how this shift took place in the British press during 2009. The article begins by charting the rise of neoliberalism and its role in financializing the economy. It then examines how such developments impacte…
No alternative to austerity
This article examines how BBC News at Ten covered the emergence of the UK public deficit debate in 2009. A total of 25 days of coverage drawn from the first seven months of 2009 were subject to a source and thematic content analysis to examine how news bulletins explained the emergence, consequences and possible solutions to the rise in the public deficit. Results indicated that political and financial elites dominated coverage. The consequence w…
Political science (30 works) · Economics (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Market economy (9 works)