Norman Ginsburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Ginsburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginsburg |
| SIGNATURE | GINSBURG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The privatization of council housing
Direct provision of affordable rented housing by local authorities is fast disappearing in Britain with the transfer of homes to quasi-private landlords. This article describes the process as it has unfolded since the late 1980s, and suggests that it imposes greater long-term risks on former council tenants and town hall staff, while also generating considerable costs for the taxpayer. The process also excludes the many tenants who either reject …
Globalization and the Liberal Welfare States
This chapter discusses the role of globalization in social policy developments in Britain and Ireland over the past two decades. In both countries, governments in the 1980s pursued macroeconomic and industrial policies explicitly designed to expose their economies to the forces of global economic competition. In so doing, however, they adopted contrasting approaches to social policy. In Britain the dominant neo-liberal discourse led to a restrict…
Critical Social Policy special issue: Vocabularies of citizenship and gender in Northern Europe
New government housing policies
Headache and Sensation Seeking
According to the cognitive theory of sensation seeking, headache sufferers were predicted to score lower than controls on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale. 26 subjects who experienced chronic headaches scored significantly lower than a group of 26 controls. The relationships between the Sensation Seeking Scale and a number of personality tests are described. Replication of the findings on this scale with headache patients is encouraged as well…
The Housing Act, 1988 and its policy context: A critical commentary
Racial harassment policy and practice: The denial of citizenship
Institutional racism and local authority housing
Striking back for the empire
Home ownership and socialism in Britain: A bulwark against bolshevism
This paper suggests that the British working class is roughly equally divided between tenants and home owners, and that the growth of home ownership is likely to continue, encouraged as it has been by both Labour and Conservative govern ments. Nevertheless government promotion of relatively insecure low income owner occupation in the inner city has illustrated the limits of such a strategy. Homeownership has not depoliticised the housing question…
Random Scaling: An Extension of Kraepelin's Combined Method
Kraepelin combined the constant method and the method of limits to avoid the inconvenience of the former and the response bias of the latter. The use of this approach together with Guttman scaling provides a method that requires few observations, is easy to administer and score, and can be applied to a variety of measurement situations. Examples are given of its use for point of subjective equality, aesthetic preference, and thresholds
Subjective Correlation and the Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion
It has been shown previously that a regular pattern of dots appears more numerous than a random pattern with the same physical number. Birnbaum and Veit's theory of contrast with expectancy has been suggested as a possible interpretation of this illusion. In order to test this theory, three groups (N = 102) were given prior exposure to stimuli with either a positive, negative, or zero correlation between regularity and number. The predicted inter…
Numerosity Estimation with Successive Presentation: Item Organization
Previous studies have shown that, with simultaneous presentation, highly organized patterns were overestimated in number compared with random patterns. In an exploratory attempt to apply Das et al.'s model of simultaneous and successive cognitive processes to perception, 62 Ss were asked to estimate the number of items presented visually one at a time. A rate of one item per second was used, and Ss were required to read each item aloud in order t…
The Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion: Rectangular Patterns
The overestimation of regular patterns compared with random patterns, previously reported for circular displays, was replicated with the use of rectangular displays of dots and controlling for overall area. Twelve female and four male college students with an average age of 27.3 years estimated the number of elements in 10 patterns containing from 45 to 126 dots. The results were discussed in relation to a suggestion of Frith and Frith, according…
The Political Economy of the Welfare State
Class, Capital and Social Policy
The privatization of council housing
Direct provision of affordable rented housing by local authorities is fast disappearing in Britain with the transfer of homes to quasi-private landlords. This article describes the process as it has unfolded since the late 1980s, and suggests that it imposes greater long-term risks on former council tenants and town hall staff, while also generating considerable costs for the taxpayer. The process also excludes the many tenants who either reject …
The Political Economy of the Welfare State
The Housing Act, 1988 and its policy context: A critical commentary
Institutional racism and local authority housing
Racial harassment policy and practice: The denial of citizenship
Home ownership and socialism in Britain: A bulwark against bolshevism
This paper suggests that the British working class is roughly equally divided between tenants and home owners, and that the growth of home ownership is likely to continue, encouraged as it has been by both Labour and Conservative govern ments. Nevertheless government promotion of relatively insecure low income owner occupation in the inner city has illustrated the limits of such a strategy. Homeownership has not depoliticised the housing question…
The Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion: Rectangular Patterns
The overestimation of regular patterns compared with random patterns, previously reported for circular displays, was replicated with the use of rectangular displays of dots and controlling for overall area. Twelve female and four male college students with an average age of 27.3 years estimated the number of elements in 10 patterns containing from 45 to 126 dots. The results were discussed in relation to a suggestion of Frith and Frith, according…
New government housing policies
Striking back for the empire
Subjective Correlation and the Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion
It has been shown previously that a regular pattern of dots appears more numerous than a random pattern with the same physical number. Birnbaum and Veit's theory of contrast with expectancy has been suggested as a possible interpretation of this illusion. In order to test this theory, three groups (N = 102) were given prior exposure to stimuli with either a positive, negative, or zero correlation between regularity and number. The predicted inter…
Class, Capital and Social Policy
The Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion: Rectangular Patterns
The overestimation of regular patterns compared with random patterns, previously reported for circular displays, was replicated with the use of rectangular displays of dots and controlling for overall area. Twelve female and four male college students with an average age of 27.3 years estimated the number of elements in 10 patterns containing from 45 to 126 dots. The results were discussed in relation to a suggestion of Frith and Frith, according…
The Political Economy of the Welfare State
Home ownership and socialism in Britain: A bulwark against bolshevism
This paper suggests that the British working class is roughly equally divided between tenants and home owners, and that the growth of home ownership is likely to continue, encouraged as it has been by both Labour and Conservative govern ments. Nevertheless government promotion of relatively insecure low income owner occupation in the inner city has illustrated the limits of such a strategy. Homeownership has not depoliticised the housing question…
Random Scaling: An Extension of Kraepelin's Combined Method
Kraepelin combined the constant method and the method of limits to avoid the inconvenience of the former and the response bias of the latter. The use of this approach together with Guttman scaling provides a method that requires few observations, is easy to administer and score, and can be applied to a variety of measurement situations. Examples are given of its use for point of subjective equality, aesthetic preference, and thresholds
Subjective Correlation and the Regular-Random Numerosity Illusion
It has been shown previously that a regular pattern of dots appears more numerous than a random pattern with the same physical number. Birnbaum and Veit's theory of contrast with expectancy has been suggested as a possible interpretation of this illusion. In order to test this theory, three groups (N = 102) were given prior exposure to stimuli with either a positive, negative, or zero correlation between regularity and number. The predicted inter…
Numerosity Estimation with Successive Presentation: Item Organization
Previous studies have shown that, with simultaneous presentation, highly organized patterns were overestimated in number compared with random patterns. In an exploratory attempt to apply Das et al.'s model of simultaneous and successive cognitive processes to perception, 62 Ss were asked to estimate the number of items presented visually one at a time. A rate of one item per second was used, and Ss were required to read each item aloud in order t…
Striking back for the empire
Institutional racism and local authority housing
The Housing Act, 1988 and its policy context: A critical commentary
Racial harassment policy and practice: The denial of citizenship
Headache and Sensation Seeking
According to the cognitive theory of sensation seeking, headache sufferers were predicted to score lower than controls on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale. 26 subjects who experienced chronic headaches scored significantly lower than a group of 26 controls. The relationships between the Sensation Seeking Scale and a number of personality tests are described. Replication of the findings on this scale with headache patients is encouraged as well…
New government housing policies
Critical Social Policy special issue: Vocabularies of citizenship and gender in Northern Europe
Globalization and the Liberal Welfare States
This chapter discusses the role of globalization in social policy developments in Britain and Ireland over the past two decades. In both countries, governments in the 1980s pursued macroeconomic and industrial policies explicitly designed to expose their economies to the forces of global economic competition. In so doing, however, they adopted contrasting approaches to social policy. In Britain the dominant neo-liberal discourse led to a restrict…
The privatization of council housing
Direct provision of affordable rented housing by local authorities is fast disappearing in Britain with the transfer of homes to quasi-private landlords. This article describes the process as it has unfolded since the late 1980s, and suggests that it imposes greater long-term risks on former council tenants and town hall staff, while also generating considerable costs for the taxpayer. The process also excludes the many tenants who either reject …
Political science (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)