Simon Burge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Burge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Burge |
| SIGNATURE | BURGE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5219-6485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Access to grammar schools by socio-economic status
One of the main motivations given for the proposed new expansion of grammar schools in England is to improve social mobility. We assess the role of existing grammar schools in promoting social mobility by examining access to grammar schools, differentiating among the 85% non-poor pupils using the National Pupil Database. We find stark differences in grammar school attendance within selective areas by socio-economic status, even when comparing pup…
Tangled spaghetti
Much is made in the popular press of parents paying a premium to live within the catchment area of a desirable school. This implies most students will attend their nearest establishment: those whose parents can afford it will live close to the highest performing schools; those who cannot will live close to ‘lower-rated’ schools. However, a backdoor system of neighbourhood allocation is contra to policies of school choice. Parents can make applica…
Newcomb’s problem and its conditional evidence
Region, Local Context, and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England
There has been considerable debate in recent work on voting patterns in Great Britain regarding the importance of regional effects: are these “real” or are they simply statistical artifacts of decision‐making processes at smaller spatial scales which are aggregated up to the regional scale if not incorporated directly into any modeling? Using a multilevel model design, this article reports on analyses of survey data for the 1997 general election …
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
Extending Choice in English Health Care
Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…
Spatial Scale and the Neighbourhood Effect
Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the…
Neighbourhood Social Capital and Neighbourhood Effects
Recent research has provided very strong circumstantial evidence of the existence of neighbourhood effects in voting patterns at recent UK general elections. The usual reason adduced to account for these spatial variations is the neighbourhood effect. This hypothesises that people are influenced in their decisionmaking and behavioural patterns by their neighbours, with interpersonal conversation being the main means of transmitting such influence…
Local neighbourhood and mental health
A missing level in the analyses of British voting behaviour
England's Multiethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools
As British society has become increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, debate has grown regarding the advantages and disadvantages of ethnically segregated schools, with regard both to educational achievement and to multicultural accommodation. Compared with issues regarding the class composition of schools, however, little work has been done on the degree of ethnic segregation in schools, let alone its impact. The authors use a recently devel…
The Newcomb Problem
School Segregation in Multiethnic England
Aspects of both educational development and multicultural interrelationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multiethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this article we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explor…
Party support and the neighbourhood effect
Italy since 1989
List of Tables and Figures Preface to the 2000 Reprint List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Italian Politics in the 1990s Italy and the Ending of the Cold War (November 1989-April 1992) The General Election of April 1992 The Storm Breaks (April-September 1992) Corruption: A Rational Analysis The Close of an Era (September 1992-April 1993) Vox Populi: The Referendum of April 1993 Which Way Forward? (April-December 1993) The General El…
The New Italy and the general election of march 1994
All change
Corruption in Italian politics led to a widespread demand for reform which culminated in a referendum, a change in the electoral system, and signs of profound political realignment. Two articles by Simon Burgess explain
The Italian general election of 1992
The Six plus One
Simon Burgess, Geoffrey Edwards; The Six plus One: British policy-making and the question of European economic integration, 1955, International Affairs, Vo
Local neighbourhood and mental health
Party support and the neighbourhood effect
Spatial Scale and the Neighbourhood Effect
Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the…
School Segregation in Multiethnic England
Aspects of both educational development and multicultural interrelationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multiethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this article we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explor…
Region, Local Context, and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England
There has been considerable debate in recent work on voting patterns in Great Britain regarding the importance of regional effects: are these “real” or are they simply statistical artifacts of decision‐making processes at smaller spatial scales which are aggregated up to the regional scale if not incorporated directly into any modeling? Using a multilevel model design, this article reports on analyses of survey data for the 1997 general election …
A missing level in the analyses of British voting behaviour
Neighbourhood Social Capital and Neighbourhood Effects
Recent research has provided very strong circumstantial evidence of the existence of neighbourhood effects in voting patterns at recent UK general elections. The usual reason adduced to account for these spatial variations is the neighbourhood effect. This hypothesises that people are influenced in their decisionmaking and behavioural patterns by their neighbours, with interpersonal conversation being the main means of transmitting such influence…
Extending Choice in English Health Care
Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…
England's Multiethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools
As British society has become increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, debate has grown regarding the advantages and disadvantages of ethnically segregated schools, with regard both to educational achievement and to multicultural accommodation. Compared with issues regarding the class composition of schools, however, little work has been done on the degree of ethnic segregation in schools, let alone its impact. The authors use a recently devel…
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
Italy since 1989
List of Tables and Figures Preface to the 2000 Reprint List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Italian Politics in the 1990s Italy and the Ending of the Cold War (November 1989-April 1992) The General Election of April 1992 The Storm Breaks (April-September 1992) Corruption: A Rational Analysis The Close of an Era (September 1992-April 1993) Vox Populi: The Referendum of April 1993 Which Way Forward? (April-December 1993) The General El…
Access to grammar schools by socio-economic status
One of the main motivations given for the proposed new expansion of grammar schools in England is to improve social mobility. We assess the role of existing grammar schools in promoting social mobility by examining access to grammar schools, differentiating among the 85% non-poor pupils using the National Pupil Database. We find stark differences in grammar school attendance within selective areas by socio-economic status, even when comparing pup…
Tangled spaghetti
Much is made in the popular press of parents paying a premium to live within the catchment area of a desirable school. This implies most students will attend their nearest establishment: those whose parents can afford it will live close to the highest performing schools; those who cannot will live close to ‘lower-rated’ schools. However, a backdoor system of neighbourhood allocation is contra to policies of school choice. Parents can make applica…
The Newcomb Problem
The Six plus One
Simon Burgess, Geoffrey Edwards; The Six plus One: British policy-making and the question of European economic integration, 1955, International Affairs, Vo
The Six plus One
Simon Burgess, Geoffrey Edwards; The Six plus One: British policy-making and the question of European economic integration, 1955, International Affairs, Vo
The Italian general election of 1992
The New Italy and the general election of march 1994
All change
Corruption in Italian politics led to a widespread demand for reform which culminated in a referendum, a change in the electoral system, and signs of profound political realignment. Two articles by Simon Burgess explain
Italy since 1989
List of Tables and Figures Preface to the 2000 Reprint List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Italian Politics in the 1990s Italy and the Ending of the Cold War (November 1989-April 1992) The General Election of April 1992 The Storm Breaks (April-September 1992) Corruption: A Rational Analysis The Close of an Era (September 1992-April 1993) Vox Populi: The Referendum of April 1993 Which Way Forward? (April-December 1993) The General El…
The Newcomb Problem
School Segregation in Multiethnic England
Aspects of both educational development and multicultural interrelationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multiethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this article we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explor…
Party support and the neighbourhood effect
Spatial Scale and the Neighbourhood Effect
Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the…
Neighbourhood Social Capital and Neighbourhood Effects
Recent research has provided very strong circumstantial evidence of the existence of neighbourhood effects in voting patterns at recent UK general elections. The usual reason adduced to account for these spatial variations is the neighbourhood effect. This hypothesises that people are influenced in their decisionmaking and behavioural patterns by their neighbours, with interpersonal conversation being the main means of transmitting such influence…
Local neighbourhood and mental health
A missing level in the analyses of British voting behaviour
England's Multiethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools
As British society has become increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, debate has grown regarding the advantages and disadvantages of ethnically segregated schools, with regard both to educational achievement and to multicultural accommodation. Compared with issues regarding the class composition of schools, however, little work has been done on the degree of ethnic segregation in schools, let alone its impact. The authors use a recently devel…
Extending Choice in English Health Care
Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…
Region, Local Context, and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England
There has been considerable debate in recent work on voting patterns in Great Britain regarding the importance of regional effects: are these “real” or are they simply statistical artifacts of decision‐making processes at smaller spatial scales which are aggregated up to the regional scale if not incorporated directly into any modeling? Using a multilevel model design, this article reports on analyses of survey data for the 1997 general election …
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
Newcomb’s problem and its conditional evidence
Tangled spaghetti
Much is made in the popular press of parents paying a premium to live within the catchment area of a desirable school. This implies most students will attend their nearest establishment: those whose parents can afford it will live close to the highest performing schools; those who cannot will live close to ‘lower-rated’ schools. However, a backdoor system of neighbourhood allocation is contra to policies of school choice. Parents can make applica…
Access to grammar schools by socio-economic status
One of the main motivations given for the proposed new expansion of grammar schools in England is to improve social mobility. We assess the role of existing grammar schools in promoting social mobility by examining access to grammar schools, differentiating among the 85% non-poor pupils using the National Pupil Database. We find stark differences in grammar school attendance within selective areas by socio-economic status, even when comparing pup…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works)