Richard Shaw
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3582242 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Shaw |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Shaw |
| FIRMA | SHAW R |
| AFILIACIONES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7906-6066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 328 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Bridging the Archipelago
Despite ample attention to bureaucratic politicization in the public administration literature, most research remains siloed, focusing on individual forms of politicization (formal, functional, or administrative) and limited to single-country analyses. When a comparative stance is adopted, it often concentrates on comparing countries with the same administrative tradition (e.g., Westminster countries). This paper advocates for a comprehensive com…
Coming to terms with climate change
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education…
Long Covid and financial outcomes
BACKGROUND: Long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) include muscle weakness, fatigue, breathing difficulties and sleep disturbance over weeks or months. Using UK longitudinal data, we assessed the relationship between long COVID and financial disruption. METHODS: We estimated associations between long COVID (derived using self-reported length of COVID-19 symptoms) and measures of financial disruption (subjective financial well-being, new bene…
Small stories, small acts in sites of struggle
Between 2001 and 2021, the eight iwi of Taranaki entered into Deeds of Settlement with the Crown. These settlements, which saw the Crown acknowledge and apologise for its historical breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, also served to extinguish the rights of Taranaki Māori to seek further redress from the Crown. The Treaty Settlement process over, Taranaki Māori and the many non‐Māori that have settled in the rohe (tribal territory) are left to them…
Bede, Plummer, and the Letter to Nechtan
In his Historia ecclesiastica, Bede includes a letter on the dating of Easter and the tonsure, addressed to Nechtan, king of the Picts, written in the name of Ceolfrith (died 716), abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow. A reassessment of Charles Plummer's assertion of Bede's authorship, expounding Plummer's case at greater length and in more detail, shows that his arguments continue to convince. Bede's authorship provides the best key to the text; and, given…
Racism as the fundamental cause of ethnic inequities in Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
Ethnic inequities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy have been reported in the United Kingdom (UK), and elsewhere. Explanations have mainly focused on differences in the level of concern about side effects, and in lack of trust in the development and efficacy of vaccines. Here we propose that racism is the fundamental cause of ethnic inequities in vaccine hesitancy. We introduce a theoretical framework detailing the mechanisms by which racism at the s…
The Migratory Pathways of Labourers and Legislation
This article addresses the process and consequences of colonisation by studying the migration of both legislative frameworks and one person who helped give those structures material effect in Aotearoa New Zealand. It situates the story of my great-grandfather—who migrated from Ireland in 1874, participated in te pāhua (the plunder) of Parihaka pā in 1881, and returned to Taranaki in 1893 to farmland taken from Māori—in the context of an instituti…
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme
During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes
Social contact and inequalities in depressive symptoms and loneliness among older adults
Reduced in-person social contact may increase depressive symptoms and loneliness among older adults, especially for those aged 65+ who live alone. Reliance on remote social contact seems unlikely to compensate for social inequalities
A Tale of Two Stories
On the morning of the 5 November 1881, my great-grandfather stood alongside 1588 other military men, waiting to commence the invasion of Parihaka pā, home to the great pacifist leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi and their people. Having contributed to the military campaign against the pā, he returned some years later as part of the agricultural campaign to complete the alienation of Taranaki iwi from their land in Aotearoa New Zealand. N…
From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas
The institutionalization of the role of ministerial advisers in most parliamentary democracies has transformed what was once à pas de deux between ministers and senior civil servants into a ménage à trois. This article assesses the impact of ministerial advisers on the contest of policy ideas. It makes a theoretical case for paying closer attention to this issue than has thus far been the case, and assesses civil servants’ perceptions of advisers…
Bubbling up or cascading down? Public servants, political advisers and politicization
One of the strands in the growing scholarship on political advisers in parliamentary democracies proposes that advisers can reduce the risk of civil service politicization by furnishing partisan advice to ministers, freeing civil servants to focus on the provision of expert competence. This benign narrative generates a significant hypothesis, which is that the institutionalization of the partisan role diminishes the risk of civil service politici…
Do social support and eating family meals together play a role in promoting resilience to bullying and cyberbullying in Scottish school children
This study investigates if cyberbullying is associated with wellbeing independently of traditional bullying and if social support and eating family meals together promotes resilience by buffering adolescents against the consequences of both types of bullying. Data for 5286 eleven, thirteen and fifteen year olds participating in the cross-sectional 2018 Scottish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study were analysed. Adolescent self-report m…
Still friends? Revisiting New Zealand public servants’ perceptions of ministerial advisers
Ten years ago, political advisers – or ministerial advisers as they are known in Aotearoa New Zealand – were a relatively recent arrival on the stage of executive government. They attracted some attention but empirical insights were thin on the ground. In 2006 Political Science published the first systematic research on public servants’ perceptions of the actions, activities and impacts of their partisan counterparts. That work concluded that rel…
The Influence of Neighbourhoods and the Social Environment on Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults in Three Prospective Cohorts
Sedentary behaviour is an emerging risk factor for poor health. This study aimed to identify ecological determinants of sedentary behaviour, for which evidence is currently scarce. The study participants were community dwelling adults from, respectively, the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (n = 271, mean age 79) and the 1930s (n = 119, mean age 83) and 1950s (n = 310, mean age 64) cohorts of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study. The outcome measure, pe…
Bede's rhetorical use of dating formulas in the Historia ecclesiastica
Bede frequently used dating formulas to frame his narrative. In some cases these simply reflect the wording of his sources, whether he states that he is quoting from them or not. More often, however, the types of phrasing he uses reflect conscious construction on his part. Such formulas drew attention to key people and passages in the work and so assisted in the achievement of Bede's authorial intentions in the Historia ecclesiastica . These phra…
Visualising and quantifying ‘excess deaths’ in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe
BACKGROUND: Scotland has higher mortality rates than the rest of Western Europe (rWE), with more cardiovascular disease and cancer among older adults; and alcohol-related and drug-related deaths, suicide and violence among younger adults. METHODS: We obtained sex, age-specific and year-specific all-cause mortality rates for Scotland and other populations, and explored differences in mortality both visually and numerically. RESULTS: Scotland's age…
How Texas Politics Really Works
Politicians, political advisers and the vocabulary of public service bargains
Recent research on political advisers is characterized by an expansion beyond Westminster and clearer connections with proximate literatures. This article speaks to the second of these features by applying the Public Service Bargain ( PSB ) lens to minister/political adviser relationships in new ways. Extant PSB analyses either position political advisers as an independent variable influencing the core bargain between ministers and senior officia…
Cassiodorus’ ‘Two Peoples’
Cassiodorus’ tract De anima is among his least studied works. The only element that has attracted significant scholarly attention is his mention of ‘two peoples’. This has often been taken to refer to political conditions in his own time. Examination of the key phrase in context, however, reveals the reference is simpler and more theological, in line with the character of the rest of the work
When Did Augustine of Canterbury Die
While Bede did not know the year of Augustine's death, he possessed papal letters which provide sufficient information to deduce it with some confidence. The early epistles from popes which Bede quoted or referred to in the ‘Historia ecclesiastica’ associated journeys by delegations sent by the early Church in Kent to Rome with the request for, and collection of, the pallium for the new bishop of Canterbury. In this light the likely purpose for t…
Bede's sources for his references to 'hides' in theEcclesiastical Historyand theHistory of the Abbots
A comprehensive analysis of Bede's references to ‘hides’ provides insights into his sources. Bede's references are of two different types, revealing two different kinds of sources, which might most simply be termed ‘charter type’ and ‘tribute type’. Examining the first set reveals that in writing the Historia Ecclesiastica and especially the Historia Abbatum, Bede had access to documentary sources, some of the language of which is probably preser…
A global reference for human genetic variation
The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of individuals from multiple populations. Here we report completion of the project, having reconstructed the genomes of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations using a combination of low-coverage whole-genome sequencing, deep exome sequencing, and dense microarray genotyping. We characterized…
The determinants of receiving social care in later life in England
Demographic change and policy changes in social care provision can affect the type of social care support received by older people, whether through informal, formal state or formal paid-for sources. This paper analyses the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing data (wave 4) in order to examine the relationship between demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and the receipt of support from different sources by older people who report diffic…
Raising the Bar
Core executive studies is now the dominant lens through which the distributed arrangements characteristic of the hollow state are studied; public value has emerged as a normative prescription for citizen engagement with policy making in the context of the very institutional conditions theorised by core executive studies scholars. Yet there has been surprisingly little intellectual engagement between the two. This article assesses the consequences…
Revisiting Politicization
In recent times much has been made of the threat some argue is posed by political advisers to the impartiality of the Westminster civil service. Drawing on survey of senior New Zealand civil servants, this article examines the degree to which political advisers are perceived as a threat to civil service neutrality and describes the form taken by that threat as variously perceived. On the evidence reported, it is suggested that traditional underst…
Political Staff in Executive Government
Political advisers are attracting increasing attention in Westminster jurisdictions. Typically, scholars focus on the corrosive impact they allegedly have on elements of Westminster convention and practice. We argue that a concern with accountability detracts from other important matters, including understanding and theorising ministerial advisers' roles. In this article we address these issues using primary data from a survey of ministerial advi…
Ministerial Advisers, Politicization and the Retreat From Westminster
Political advisers are an established third element in a number of Westminster‐styled jurisdictions, as they are in New Zealand’s institution of executive government. In this paper we report the initial findings of a research project focusing on the role and accountabilities of ministerial advisers in New Zealand. We locate these findings in the context of a growing body of international and comparative research on the role and accountabilities o…
Ministerial Advisers and the Politics of Policy‐Making
The advent of ministerial advisers of the partisan variety – a third element interposing itself into Westminster's bilateral monopoly – has been acknowledged as a significant development in a number of jurisdictions. While there are commonalities across contexts, the New Zealand experience provides an opportunity to explore the extent to which the advent of ministerial advisers is consistent with rational choice accounts of relations between poli…
The determinants of receiving social care in later life in England
Demographic change and policy changes in social care provision can affect the type of social care support received by older people, whether through informal, formal state or formal paid-for sources. This paper analyses the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing data (wave 4) in order to examine the relationship between demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and the receipt of support from different sources by older people who report diffic…
Ethnic Density Effects on Birth Outcomes and Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy in the US Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set
Objectives. We investigated whether mothers from ethnic minority groups have better pregnancy outcomes when they live in counties with higher densities of people from the same ethnic group—despite such areas tending to be more socioeconomically deprived. Methods. In a population-based US study, we used multilevel logistic regression analysis to test whether same-ethnic density was associated with maternal smoking in pregnancy, low birthweight, pr…
Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study
Bubbling up or cascading down? Public servants, political advisers and politicization
One of the strands in the growing scholarship on political advisers in parliamentary democracies proposes that advisers can reduce the risk of civil service politicization by furnishing partisan advice to ministers, freeing civil servants to focus on the provision of expert competence. This benign narrative generates a significant hypothesis, which is that the institutionalization of the partisan role diminishes the risk of civil service politici…
The Health Benefits of Hispanic Communities for Non-Hispanic Mothers and Infants
Objectives. In the United States, Hispanic mothers have birth outcomes comparable to those of White mothers despite lower socioeconomic status. The contextual effects of Hispanic neighborhoods may partially explain this “Hispanic paradox.” We investigated whether this benefit extends to other ethnic groups. Methods. We used multilevel logistic regression to investigate whether the county-level percentage of Hispanic residents is associated with i…
Politicians, political advisers and the vocabulary of public service bargains
Recent research on political advisers is characterized by an expansion beyond Westminster and clearer connections with proximate literatures. This article speaks to the second of these features by applying the Public Service Bargain ( PSB ) lens to minister/political adviser relationships in new ways. Extant PSB analyses either position political advisers as an independent variable influencing the core bargain between ministers and senior officia…
The association between ethnic density and poor self-rated health among US Black and Hispanic people
Associations between ethnic density and self-rated health are inconsistent and differ by ethnicity and gender
Enemy or Ally? Senior Officials’ Perceptions of Ministerial Advisers Before and After MMP
There is now a well-established literature on the various second-order effects of the adoption of proportional representation in New Zealand. One feature of the contemporary executive landscape, however, remains substantially under-researched. This article reports on research regarding ministerial advisers in New Zealand Cabinet ministers’ offices. More specifically, it compares senior public servants’ current attitudes towards ministerial advise…
The characteristics of mobile families with young children in England and the impact of their moves on neighbourhood inequalities in maternal and child health
The present and future use of ‘land’ below ground
A Tale of Two Stories
On the morning of the 5 November 1881, my great-grandfather stood alongside 1588 other military men, waiting to commence the invasion of Parihaka pā, home to the great pacifist leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi and their people. Having contributed to the military campaign against the pā, he returned some years later as part of the agricultural campaign to complete the alienation of Taranaki iwi from their land in Aotearoa New Zealand. N…
Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the `Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm
Journal Article Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the `Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm. Get access Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the 'Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm. Edited by ARTHUR FRANCIS, JEREMY TURK and PAUL WILLMAN. (London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp. 217. £17.50.) Richard Shaw Richard Shaw University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Minding the minister? Ministerial Advisers in New Zealand Government
In recent years, political advisers have been in the spotlight in a number of Westminster nations. A surprising feature of the literature, however, is the relative lack of empirical attention paid to advisers themselves. Moreover, researchers have tended to focus on the accountability issues raised by the conduct of political staff at the expense of other significant matters, including advisers’ views of their influence on the policy process and …
Visualising and quantifying ‘excess deaths’ in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe
BACKGROUND: Scotland has higher mortality rates than the rest of Western Europe (rWE), with more cardiovascular disease and cancer among older adults; and alcohol-related and drug-related deaths, suicide and violence among younger adults. METHODS: We obtained sex, age-specific and year-specific all-cause mortality rates for Scotland and other populations, and explored differences in mortality both visually and numerically. RESULTS: Scotland's age…
Raising the Bar
Core executive studies is now the dominant lens through which the distributed arrangements characteristic of the hollow state are studied; public value has emerged as a normative prescription for citizen engagement with policy making in the context of the very institutional conditions theorised by core executive studies scholars. Yet there has been surprisingly little intellectual engagement between the two. This article assesses the consequences…
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme
During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes
Still friends? Revisiting New Zealand public servants’ perceptions of ministerial advisers
Ten years ago, political advisers – or ministerial advisers as they are known in Aotearoa New Zealand – were a relatively recent arrival on the stage of executive government. They attracted some attention but empirical insights were thin on the ground. In 2006 Political Science published the first systematic research on public servants’ perceptions of the actions, activities and impacts of their partisan counterparts. That work concluded that rel…
Differences in adiposity trajectories by birth cohort and childhood social class
BACKGROUND: Since the 1930s, the environment has become increasingly obesogenic, leading to rising rates of adiposity and socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity. Building on studies comparing body mass index (BMI) for cohorts born over a period of 20 years, we examine the social patterning of BMI and central adiposity for three cohorts born over a 40-year period. METHODS: Using data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study (n=4510), we investig…
Meaning just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’
In recent years, governance has become perhaps the dominant heuristic through which the structuring and exercise of political power is made sense of in political science and its subfields. Only rarely, however, do scholars pause to interrogate either the meaning of the term or the epistemological purposes for which it is deployed. In that context, this article reflects on the state of political science research on governance in Aotearoa New Zeala…
The Economics of Industries and Firms
Journal Article The Economics of Industries and Firms Get access The Economics of Industries and Firms. By Malcolm C. SAWYER. (London: Croom Helm, 1981. Pp. 287. £14.95 hardback, £6.95 paperback.) Richard Shaw Richard Shaw University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 365, 1 March 1982, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232277 Published: 01 March 1982
Coming to terms with climate change
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education…
Forecasting air traffic
The Economics of Industries and Firms
Journal Article The Economics of Industries and Firms Get access The Economics of Industries and Firms. By Malcolm C. SAWYER. (London: Croom Helm, 1981. Pp. 287. £14.95 hardback, £6.95 paperback.) Richard Shaw Richard Shaw University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 365, 1 March 1982, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232277 Published: 01 March 1982
Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the `Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm
Journal Article Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the `Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm. Get access Power, Efficiency and Institutions. A Critical Appraisal of the 'Markets and Hierarchies' Paradigm. Edited by ARTHUR FRANCIS, JEREMY TURK and PAUL WILLMAN. (London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp. 217. £17.50.) Richard Shaw Richard Shaw University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Srisailam
L'auteur de cet article presente la montagne sainte de Srisailam qui surplombe la riviere Krishna et au sommet de laquelle se trouvent le temple de Mallikarjuna et sa petite ville de pelerinage. L'auteur s'attache tout particulierement au prakara du temple, mur crenele constitue de pres de 4000 blocs de pierre finement sculptes. Cette muraille, datee approximativement du regne de Ballala II (1172-1220), est ornee de nombreux siddhas, saints homme…
State Sector Reform and MMP
(1998). State Sector Reform and MMP: At the Interface. Political Science: Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 173-197
Rules or Discretion? Officials and Government Formation Under MMP
Relatively little academic attention has thus far been paid to the experiences of the public service under New Zealand’s new proportional representation electoral system. This article focuses on the role of officials during periods of caretaker government, and in particular, on the contributions made by public servants to the formation of governments under MMP. The article reviews the history behind and operation of the arrangements which governe…
Don’t panic
Argues that there are real misunderstandings about survivors’ reactions and their abilities to act rationally and altruistically immediately in the aftermath of a disaster. Illustrates, with case histories from the Thorpe Park fire, a BA jumbo incident, the Paddington rail crash and others. People can and do act rationally, fearlessly and selflessly after major incidents, often reducing loss of life, introducing some sense of order and beginning …
Defenses in School Age Children
Shaping bureaucratic reform down-under
This article tests the capacity of Dunleavy's bureau-shaping model to explain a specific set of reforms in the New Zealand public service. It finds that the model accounts for certain features of the changes, including the motives of some senior bureaucrats and the structural reforms made to several government departments. However, it fails to explain the diverse motives of officials and the influence of ministers. The article concludes that the …
Enemy or Ally? Senior Officials’ Perceptions of Ministerial Advisers Before and After MMP
There is now a well-established literature on the various second-order effects of the adoption of proportional representation in New Zealand. One feature of the contemporary executive landscape, however, remains substantially under-researched. This article reports on research regarding ministerial advisers in New Zealand Cabinet ministers’ offices. More specifically, it compares senior public servants’ current attitudes towards ministerial advise…
Minding the minister? Ministerial Advisers in New Zealand Government
In recent years, political advisers have been in the spotlight in a number of Westminster nations. A surprising feature of the literature, however, is the relative lack of empirical attention paid to advisers themselves. Moreover, researchers have tended to focus on the accountability issues raised by the conduct of political staff at the expense of other significant matters, including advisers’ views of their influence on the policy process and …
Ministerial Advisers and the Politics of Policy‐Making
The advent of ministerial advisers of the partisan variety – a third element interposing itself into Westminster's bilateral monopoly – has been acknowledged as a significant development in a number of jurisdictions. While there are commonalities across contexts, the New Zealand experience provides an opportunity to explore the extent to which the advent of ministerial advisers is consistent with rational choice accounts of relations between poli…
Ministerial Advisers, Politicization and the Retreat From Westminster
Political advisers are an established third element in a number of Westminster‐styled jurisdictions, as they are in New Zealand’s institution of executive government. In this paper we report the initial findings of a research project focusing on the role and accountabilities of ministerial advisers in New Zealand. We locate these findings in the context of a growing body of international and comparative research on the role and accountabilities o…
Revisiting Politicization
In recent times much has been made of the threat some argue is posed by political advisers to the impartiality of the Westminster civil service. Drawing on survey of senior New Zealand civil servants, this article examines the degree to which political advisers are perceived as a threat to civil service neutrality and describes the form taken by that threat as variously perceived. On the evidence reported, it is suggested that traditional underst…
The present and future use of ‘land’ below ground
Politics and the Internet
The new wave of information communication technologies is transforming politics around the world. A growing international literature notwithstanding, however, scholarship on the relationship between politics and the internet in New Zealand remains scant. The purposes of this article are to review the published academic literature regarding the impact of the internet on politics in New Zealand and to sketch a future research agenda which will addr…
Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study
Another Hispanic paradox? The health benefits of Hispanic communities for non-Hispanic mothers and infant
Background and Objectives In the US, Hispanic mothers have rates of infant mortality and low birthweight that are comparable to non-Hispanic White mothers despite being more likely to live in socio-economically deprived areas. This well known phenomenon is termed the Hispanic paradox. Recent research suggests that this phenomenon may be partly explained by the areas in which Hispanic people live. Hispanic mothers living in counties with a high pr…
Ethnic Density Effects on Birth Outcomes and Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy in the US Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set
Objectives. We investigated whether mothers from ethnic minority groups have better pregnancy outcomes when they live in counties with higher densities of people from the same ethnic group—despite such areas tending to be more socioeconomically deprived. Methods. In a population-based US study, we used multilevel logistic regression analysis to test whether same-ethnic density was associated with maternal smoking in pregnancy, low birthweight, pr…
The association between ethnic density and poor self-rated health among US Black and Hispanic people
Associations between ethnic density and self-rated health are inconsistent and differ by ethnicity and gender
Political Staff in Executive Government
Political advisers are attracting increasing attention in Westminster jurisdictions. Typically, scholars focus on the corrosive impact they allegedly have on elements of Westminster convention and practice. We argue that a concern with accountability detracts from other important matters, including understanding and theorising ministerial advisers' roles. In this article we address these issues using primary data from a survey of ministerial advi…
Ethnic Density Effects on Physical Morbidity, Mortality, and Health Behaviors
It has been suggested that people in racial/ethnic minority groups are healthier when they live in areas with a higher concentration of people from their own ethnic group, a so-called ethnic density effect. Ethnic density effects are still contested, and the pathways by which ethnic density operates are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature examining the ethnic density effect on physical health, mort…
The characteristics of mobile families with young children in England and the impact of their moves on neighbourhood inequalities in maternal and child health
OP62 How do Adiposity Trajectories Vary by Birth Cohort and Parental Social Class? Evidence from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study
Background Over the last 80 years the association between social class and obesity has changed. In the 1930s obesity rates were low and wealthy people tended to have a higher risk of obesity than poor people. However, rising affluence and industrialisation has lead to both rising rates of obesity and an obesogenic environment in which socioeconomically disadvantaged people have the highest risk of obesity. This study investigates the magnitude of…
The Health Benefits of Hispanic Communities for Non-Hispanic Mothers and Infants
Objectives. In the United States, Hispanic mothers have birth outcomes comparable to those of White mothers despite lower socioeconomic status. The contextual effects of Hispanic neighborhoods may partially explain this “Hispanic paradox.” We investigated whether this benefit extends to other ethnic groups. Methods. We used multilevel logistic regression to investigate whether the county-level percentage of Hispanic residents is associated with i…
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