Neil Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9686-3940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 483 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Framing of the Punch-Drunk Boxer: Medicine, Medicalisation, and the Media in Interwar Britain
This article examines how the medical condition of the ‘punch-drunk’ boxer was framed by the popular press during the 1930s, highlighting more generally the transmission and nature of medical knowledge into the public domain. In particular, it analyses a series of articles published in the Daily Mirror in 1938, which criticised the boxing industry and highlighted the medical consequences for boxers. The article further argues that the nature of p…
Cycling and the British: A Modern History
Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? How have perceptions and the popularity of cycling shifted? This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling’s relationship with environmental politics and it…
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit, and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and environmental harms. Despite growing documentation of ISNs and their impacts, efforts to understand and disrupt ISNs remain insufficient due to the persistent lack of knowledge connecting a given ISN’s modus operandi and its patterns of activity in space and tim…
Missionaries and the removal, illegal export, and return of Ancestral Remains
This chapter considers the role of missionaries in the removal of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Missionaries acquired Ancestral Remains, but their involvement in this global activity has received little scholarship. The chapter provides the case study of Father Ernst Worms, a Pallottine missionary in the Kimberley region of Australia, who took remains and sent them to Germany in the mid-1930s, aware that this was an illegal act in contravention o…
Marguerite Wilson and other ‘hard-riding … feminine space eaters’: Cycling and modern femininity in interwar Britain
This article charts the growth of the sport of women’s cycling in Britain during the inter-war years. It does so with reference to contemporary media sources and specifically the popular periodical Cycling. It examines this development in the context of how emerging ideals about the new modern women jostled with traditional notions of femininity in interwar Britain. Women’s cycling both challenged and complemented ideas of femininity, although ho…
Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: A review and prospectus
Guerrero, A. M., N. J. Bennett, K. A. Wilson, N. Carter, D. Gill, M. Mills, C. D. Ives, M. J. Selinske, C. Larrosa, S. Bekessy, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, H. Travers, C. A. Wyborn, and A. Nuno. 2018. Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society 23(3):38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10232-230338
What does Brexit Mean for the UK 's Climate Change Act
This article examines the potential implications of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (so‐called ‘Brexit’) for the success and survival of the country's flagship climate policy, the Climate Change Act 2008. The impact of a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit for the main features of the Climate Change Act are assessed, building on documentary evidence and elite interviews with key policy‐makers and policy‐shapers. The article argues that t…
Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties’ climate policy preferences
This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties’ policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the preferences of parties in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom over the past two decades. It probes the data for evidence of validity through content validation and convergent/dis…
Sleep does not cause false memories on a story-based test of suggestibility
Manchester: The City Years
Writing a history of a football club is an increasingly serious business. Recent works such as Red Men: Liverpool Football Club – The Biography (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2010) by John Williams and Da
Green Parties
Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain
Within the phrase ‘cultural conflict’ in its title, this book hints at a throwback to a time when the history of leisure was bound up with notions of social control. But rather than a descent into
French Cycling: A Social and Cultural History
The Greens in the UK general election of 7 May 2015
The election in 2010 of the first Green MP, Caroline Lucas, was a significant breakthrough for the party, but during the 2015 UK general election the Greens became a serious, albeit still minor, el
Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880–1939
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Pp. xi+394, £65.00 (hb), ISBN 978-0-19-928052-0 In defiance
Professionals, Amateurs and Performance: Sports Coaching in England, 1789–1914
Coaches have played an important role in the history of sport in not only reflecting the sporting environment but also shaping its direction. Coaches have also exercised a large influence over thei
Routledge Companion to Sports History
S.W. Pope and John Nauright, , London, Routledge, 2010, xv+655 pp., notes and sources index, , £135.00, ISBN978-0-415-77339-3 This book is a statement on the coming of age of sports history and as
Explaining Radical Policy Change: The Case of Climate Change and Energy Policy Under the British Labour Government 2006–10
An innovative framework combining the ‘multiple streams’ ( MS ) and ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ( PE ) models of agenda‐setting is used to explain the transformation of UK climate change and energy policy under the Labour Government between 2006 and 2010. The coupling of the problem, politics and policy streams by policy entrepreneurs ( MS ), and changes in policy image and institutional venues ( PE ), were critical in opening a policy window, disru…
Still saving the earth? The European Parliament's environmental record
The European Parliament has been heralded as a champion of environmental policy within the European Union. However, there have been few recent studies of the European Parliament's treatment of environmental legislation, despite the many changes that have taken place within the EU. To correct this oversight all European Parliament amendments to environmental co-decision legislation between 1999 and 2009 have been classified according to their envi…
The Olympics, amateurism and Britain's coaching heritage
Although an increase in the quality and availability of sports coaching is one of the ‘soft’ legacy targets for the organisers of London 2012, little is actually known about the ongoing relationships between the Olympic Games and Britain’s coaching traditions, social practices which form an important part of the nation’s intangible cultural heritage. Using newspaper reports and organisational archives, this paper explores how the London Games in …
Greening the mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment
If the environment becomes the subject of party competition so that mainstream parties compete to be the ‘greenest’ party and move closer to Green party positions that may produce more environmental policy measures and better environmental outcomes. A comparative analysis of the impact of the environmental dimension on contemporary party politics employs the 2010 Chapel Hill Expert Survey and the Manifesto Project empirical data to analyse party …
A Global Racecourse: Work, Culture and Horse Sports
Chris McConville (ed.), A Global Racecourse: Work, Culture and Horse Sports (ASSH Studies No. 23) (Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History, 2008). Pp. Xii+164, AUS$25.00 (pb), ISBN 978-0-9
A genuinely emotional week’: Learning disability, sport and television – notes on the Special Olympics GB National Summer Games 2009
In July 2009, the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games for athletes with learning disabilities were held in Leicester. Uniquely the Games achieved considerable television news coverage. This article offers a preliminary analysis of television representations of the Games. National TV coverage of the Paralympics is now established, but Special Olympics – and sport for people with learning disabilities in general – receives little m…
Enlargement and the Environment: The Changing Behaviour of the European Parliament
It was widely anticipated before European Union enlargement that the accession states would have a negative impact on EU environmental governance. By extension, the European Parliament's (EP) reputation as an environmental champion might be threatened by the influx of MEPs from accession states. An analysis of all EP amendments to environmental legislation between 1999 and 2009 reveals that post‐enlargement the EP was more successful at securing …
Introduction: Coaching Cultures
I think probably the worst thing that could have happened to us, and maybe people'll disagree, is winning the World Cup in '66 because suddenly, out of the closet, every man and his dog became a co
Explaining Radical Policy Change: The Case of Climate Change and Energy Policy Under the British Labour Government 2006–10
An innovative framework combining the ‘multiple streams’ ( MS ) and ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ( PE ) models of agenda‐setting is used to explain the transformation of UK climate change and energy policy under the Labour Government between 2006 and 2010. The coupling of the problem, politics and policy streams by policy entrepreneurs ( MS ), and changes in policy image and institutional venues ( PE ), were critical in opening a policy window, disru…
Party Politicization Of The Environment In Britain
The impact of the environment on established political parties, especially in polities without an electorally successful green party, is surprisingly under-researched. This article provides a theoretically informed and empirically comprehensive analysis of the party politicization of the environment in Britain. Four hypotheses are developed, drawn from the party competition and ‘new politics’ perspectives, which predict the response of the three …
Greening the mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment
If the environment becomes the subject of party competition so that mainstream parties compete to be the ‘greenest’ party and move closer to Green party positions that may produce more environmental policy measures and better environmental outcomes. A comparative analysis of the impact of the environmental dimension on contemporary party politics employs the 2010 Chapel Hill Expert Survey and the Manifesto Project empirical data to analyse party …
Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties’ climate policy preferences
This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties’ policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the preferences of parties in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom over the past two decades. It probes the data for evidence of validity through content validation and convergent/dis…
Interpreting the precautionary principle
Journal Article Interpreting the precautionary principle Get access Interpreting the precautionary principle. Edited by Timothy O'Riordanand James Cameron. London: Earthscan. 1994. 315pp. Index. Pb.: £15.95. ISBN 1 85383 200 6. Neil Carter Neil Carter 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 625–626, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624891 Publ…
Performance Indicators: Backseat Driving’ or ‘Hands Off’ Control
The present Conservative administration has attempted to improve economy, efficiency and effectiveness in government by decentralising the delivery of public services. In order to overcome the familiar organisational paradox, that to decentralise it is necessary to centralise, the government has encouraged the development of performance indicators as a ‘hands off’ instrument of control over service delivery. This article analyses various problems…
Is Co-Decision Good for the Environment? an Analysis of the European Parliament's Green Credentials
The European Parliament (EP) has long been regarded as a positive force for environmental change in the EU, but there has been little detailed empirical scrutiny to determine whether its reputation as a green champion is deserved. Nor has there been any evaluation of the environmental impact of the increase in EP powers under co-decision. These oversights are rectified by an evaluation of the EP's amendments to environmental legislation using typ…
Learning to Measure Performance: The Use of Indicators in Organizations
Performance indicators (PIS) are central to the Thatcher Administration's strategy for reforming the management of government. This paper reports on research into the development and use of PIS in government departments, public agencies and private businesses in the 1980s. This comparative approach shows that the problems of performance assessment and the methods adopted for the design of PI systems, cut across the public/private divide but are r…
A Very Tory Coup: The Ousting of MRS Thatcher
Enlargement and the Environment: The Changing Behaviour of the European Parliament
It was widely anticipated before European Union enlargement that the accession states would have a negative impact on EU environmental governance. By extension, the European Parliament's (EP) reputation as an environmental champion might be threatened by the influx of MEPs from accession states. An analysis of all EP amendments to environmental legislation between 1999 and 2009 reveals that post‐enlargement the EP was more successful at securing …
The Greens in Brussels: Shaping or shaped
The challenge for contemporary Green parties in government is to demonstrate both that they have not been completely de‐radicalised, and that their presence in government can make a difference. Green party involvement in the European Union (EU) adds distinctive elements to this challenge. Does engagement in supranational decision making provide new opportunities for Green parties to exercise influence beyond borders? Or does it simply further exa…
Political Participation and the Workplace: The Spillover Thesis Revisited
Current concern about declining public participation has ignored the potential of workplace democracy to encourage citizen involvement in political activities. Yet, Carole Pateman, in one of the classic texts of participatory democratic theory, outlines the ‘spillover thesis’, which posits a direct link between workplace participation, political efficacy and public participation. The lack of strong empirical evidence supporting this causal relati…
Ecological Citizenship and Ethical Investment
There has been very little debate about the practical forms that ecological citizenship might take. Ethical investment, which seeks to influence companies to adopt responsible policies that benefit society and the environment, has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in the UK. Dobson has identified four defining characteristics that are used in this article to assess whether ethical investment is an example of ecological citizenship. The …
Vote Blue, Go Green? Cameron's Conservatives and the Environment
How genuine is the Conservative party's rediscovery of the environment? Would a Conservative government led by David Cameron implement a wide‐ranging and progressive environmental policy? This article explores why Cameron has embraced the environment so enthusiastically when Conservative governments have had a poor record of environmental protection and the Conservative party has traditionally shown little interest in the issue. It assesses the i…
Combating Climate Change in the UK: Challenges and Obstacles 1
There is a curious disjunction between the Labour Government's international actions and its domestic policy. Although Tony Blair did much to promote the climate change agenda on the international stage, domestically, with carbon emissions rising again, the Government will fail to meet its target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. This article examines the weaknesses in the Labour Government's domestic record a…
Still saving the earth? The European Parliament's environmental record
The European Parliament has been heralded as a champion of environmental policy within the European Union. However, there have been few recent studies of the European Parliament's treatment of environmental legislation, despite the many changes that have taken place within the EU. To correct this oversight all European Parliament amendments to environmental co-decision legislation between 1999 and 2009 have been classified according to their envi…
What does Brexit Mean for the UK 's Climate Change Act
This article examines the potential implications of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (so‐called ‘Brexit’) for the success and survival of the country's flagship climate policy, the Climate Change Act 2008. The impact of a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit for the main features of the Climate Change Act are assessed, building on documentary evidence and elite interviews with key policy‐makers and policy‐shapers. The article argues that t…
Evaluating Agencies: Next Steps and Performance Indicators
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit, and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and environmental harms. Despite growing documentation of ISNs and their impacts, efforts to understand and disrupt ISNs remain insufficient due to the persistent lack of knowledge connecting a given ISN’s modus operandi and its patterns of activity in space and tim…
The Greens in the 2009 European parliament election
The European Green Party can be satisfied with its performance in the 2009 European Parliament (EP) election. The number of Green Members of the European Parliament (MEP) elected increased from 35
The Rise and Fall of the Magic Sponge: Medicine and the Transformation of the Football Trainer
Sports medicine has been largely neglected by historians. This article examines the development of the role of the football trainer from 1885 to 1992, placing it in the wider context of the shifting relationship between orthodox and unorthodox medicine. It is underpinned by two interdependent arguments. First, it can be argued that the origins of football trainers can be traced to unorthodox alternative medicine; their role developed largely outs…
The Logistics of Ministerial Reshuffles
Ministerial reshuffles are complex exercises requiring careful handling. A frequent occurrence in British government, their significance is usually seen in political terms. Prime Ministers attach great importance to maximizing the political advantages to be gained from them. This factor is the chief determinant of their logistics, the principal characteristics of which are secrecy in advance and the speed with which ministerial changes are execut…
Measuring Government Performance
Take blue, add yellow, get green? The environment in the UK general election of 6 May 2010
When the Labour Party came to power in 1997, it promised to put the environment ‘at the centre of government’. Its record during the next 13 years was mixed. During its first two terms in office, i
The Greens in the UK general election of 7 May 2015
The election in 2010 of the first Green MP, Caroline Lucas, was a significant breakthrough for the party, but during the 2015 UK general election the Greens became a serious, albeit still minor, el
Co‐operatives—The State of Play
Measuring Government Performance
Performance Indicators: Backseat Driving’ or ‘Hands Off’ Control
The present Conservative administration has attempted to improve economy, efficiency and effectiveness in government by decentralising the delivery of public services. In order to overcome the familiar organisational paradox, that to decentralise it is necessary to centralise, the government has encouraged the development of performance indicators as a ‘hands off’ instrument of control over service delivery. This article analyses various problems…
Learning to Measure Performance: The Use of Indicators in Organizations
Performance indicators (PIS) are central to the Thatcher Administration's strategy for reforming the management of government. This paper reports on research into the development and use of PIS in government departments, public agencies and private businesses in the 1980s. This comparative approach shows that the problems of performance assessment and the methods adopted for the design of PI systems, cut across the public/private divide but are r…
A Very Tory Coup: The Ousting of MRS Thatcher
The Logistics of Ministerial Reshuffles
Ministerial reshuffles are complex exercises requiring careful handling. A frequent occurrence in British government, their significance is usually seen in political terms. Prime Ministers attach great importance to maximizing the political advantages to be gained from them. This factor is the chief determinant of their logistics, the principal characteristics of which are secrecy in advance and the speed with which ministerial changes are execut…
Whatever happened to the environment? The British general election of 1992
Evaluating Agencies: Next Steps and Performance Indicators
Book notes
The Way: An Ecological World View by Edward Goldsmith. London: Rider, 1992. Pp.xxii + 442; appendices. £12.99. ISBN 0 7126 4663 9. Green Development by W.M. Adams. London and New York Routledge, 1992. Pp. xiv + 246; index. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 08050 9. Common Property Resources: Ecology and Community‐Based Sustainable Development edited by Fikret Berkes. London: Belhaven Press, 1992 (first published 1989), in association with the Intern…
Environmental Politics and Administrative Reform
Resource politics: Freshwater and regional relations
Journal Article Resource politics: freshwater and regional relations Get access Resource politics: freshwater and regional relations. Edited by Caroline Thomasand Darryl Howlett. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. 1993. 213pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 335 15775 0. Neil Carter Neil Carter 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 1994, Page 791, h…
The greens in the 1994 European parliamentary elections
Interpreting the precautionary principle
Journal Article Interpreting the precautionary principle Get access Interpreting the precautionary principle. Edited by Timothy O'Riordanand James Cameron. London: Earthscan. 1994. 315pp. Index. Pb.: £15.95. ISBN 1 85383 200 6. Neil Carter Neil Carter 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 625–626, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624891 Publ…
Halting degradation of natural resources: Is there a role for rural communities
Journal Article Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities? Get access Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities?By Jean-Marie Balandand Jean-Philippe Platteau. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. 424pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 198 28921 9. Neil Carter Neil Carter 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Af…
Prospects: The Parties and The Environment in the UK
The environment in world politics: Exploring the limits
Journal Article The environment in world politics: exploring the limits Get access The environment in world politics: exploring the limits. By Ian Bellany. Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar. 1997. 256pp. Index. £39.95.ISBN0 858 98348 7. Neil Carter Neil Carter 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 1997, Page 797, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624498 …
The 1997 British general election
The Greens in the 1999 European parliamentary elections
The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy
The rising profile of the environment in politics reflects growing public concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. This unique textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to ideas, activism and policy. Part One explores environmental philosophy and green political thought, assessing the relationship between 'green ideas' and other political doctrines. Part Two cons…
Mixed Fortunes: The Greens in the 2004 European Parliament Election
Ecological Citizenship and Ethical Investment
There has been very little debate about the practical forms that ecological citizenship might take. Ethical investment, which seeks to influence companies to adopt responsible policies that benefit society and the environment, has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in the UK. Dobson has identified four defining characteristics that are used in this article to assess whether ethical investment is an example of ecological citizenship. The …
The Football Manager: A History
1. The Origins of Football Management 2. The Pioneers, 1880-1914 3. 'Organising Victory': Herbert Chapman and Football Management Modernity 4. The Emergence of the Football Manager, 1918-1939 5. The Modernisation of Football Management, 1945-1970 6. Managers in the Television Age, 1970-1992 7. The 'Postmodern' Football Manager? 8. What Difference Does a Football Manager Make? Conclusion. Appendix. Index
Political Participation and the Workplace: The Spillover Thesis Revisited
Current concern about declining public participation has ignored the potential of workplace democracy to encourage citizen involvement in political activities. Yet, Carole Pateman, in one of the classic texts of participatory democratic theory, outlines the ‘spillover thesis’, which posits a direct link between workplace participation, political efficacy and public participation. The lack of strong empirical evidence supporting this causal relati…
Party Politicization Of The Environment In Britain
The impact of the environment on established political parties, especially in polities without an electorally successful green party, is surprisingly under-researched. This article provides a theoretically informed and empirically comprehensive analysis of the party politicization of the environment in Britain. Four hypotheses are developed, drawn from the party competition and ‘new politics’ perspectives, which predict the response of the three …
The Greens in Brussels: Shaping or shaped
The challenge for contemporary Green parties in government is to demonstrate both that they have not been completely de‐radicalised, and that their presence in government can make a difference. Green party involvement in the European Union (EU) adds distinctive elements to this challenge. Does engagement in supranational decision making provide new opportunities for Green parties to exercise influence beyond borders? Or does it simply further exa…
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