Keith Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pocket Instructor: Writing
Pocket Instructor
Bringing the Anglo-Scottish Border “Back in”
This special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies “brings the Anglo-Scottish border back in” by drawing upon six of the contributions from an ESRC Seminar Series on the nature of the cross-border relationship between Scotland and its “closest cousins,” in Northern England. The seminars, which took place in 2014–2015, involved a range of contributors including academics, policy-makers and practitioners, with the academics drawn from a range…
Northern Lights
Drawing on recent research on the Anglo-Scottish border, this article examines the social and economic impact of a more powerful Scotland on its “nearest neighbors” in the North East of England. In examining a series of competing narratives that shape how the significance of the Anglo-Scottish border and borderlands have been understood, the discussion begins by highlighting the longevity of a traditional conflictual narrative that a more powerfu…
Take us with you Scotland’? Post-Referendum and Post-Election Reflections from the North East Of England
This article examines the different reactions in North East England to the results of both the Scottish Independence Referendum in September 2014 and the General Election in May 2015. It outlines how the region's relief at the ‘No’ vote quickly gave way to traditional fears – once the Smith Commission had reported – that a more powerful Scotland would undermine economic fortunes just south of the border. To fear of a more powerful ‘neighbour’ was…
Our Friends in the North’
The increasingly contested nature of the debate on Scottish independence has served to reinforce deeply-rooted fears in the North East and Cumbria over the economic implications of a more powerful Scotland. If anything, recent fraternal overtures from the Scottish Government have tended to lead to a hardening of the attitudes of those initially opposed to independence. However, this article also captures other responses which are underpinned by a…
Managing for local resilience
The term resilience is increasingly being used to capture the challenges involved in managing in ‘hard times’. This article aims to provide one of the first empirical studies of the term’s application to local authority interventions around emergency planning and climate change: two areas in which resilience has been particularly emphasised in local policy making. Drawing upon research undertaken in the north east of England, the article consider…
Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afgh…
Introduction The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929) We live in challenging times with a heightened sense of uncer...
The Rise of the Resilient Local Authority
The term resilience is increasingly being utilised within the study of public policy to depict how individuals, communities and organisations can adapt, cope, and ‘bounce back’ when faced with external shocks such as climate change, economic recession and cuts in public expenditure. In focussing on the local dimensions of the resilience debate, this article argues that the term can provide useful insights into how the challenges facing local auth…
Developing inclusive approaches to regional governance in the post-referendum North East
Drawing upon empirical research of governance in the North East of England, this article aims to evaluate the impact of current practices of stakeholder engagement on declared aspirations of both inclusivity and democratic renewal. Using the North East Assembly (NEA) as a case study, it details the experiences and opinion of both ‘key’ and marginalized stakeholders of the NEA in its role as ‘the voice of the region’. Whilst highlighting examples …
Regional Devolution and Democratic Renewal
In this paper we aim to assess critically the relationship between devolved government and democratic renewal through a focus on the potential for stakeholder involvement within elected regional assemblies. Drawing particularly upon evidence from North East England, we will consider how the creation of elected assemblies could reinvigorate democracy, given the constraints imposed (in regions such as the North East) by the unreformed and unreprese…
Regional development agencies and physical regeneration in England
Governing a Region
Public services in the North East of England are managed and provided by the traditional institutions of government and, now, by a large number of unelected bodies. The growth of these unelected bodies has led to increasingly fragmented governance, a lack of local accountability and lack of transparency.Almost all the institutions of governance in the region, both elected and unelected, are run by, predominantly, middle-aged (or older) middle-cla…
Assessing the Performance of Urban Development Corporations
Assessing the Performance of Urban Development Corporations
As UK Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) come to the end of their expected lifetimes it is now appropriate to embark upon an independent and comprehensive assessment of their overall impact. The article will seriously question whether the present system of DoE monitoring of specific UDC output measures has allowed for the provision of full and accurate information. It will be argued that the inconsistencies and definitional problems associated…
Compulsory competition for local Government services in the UK
Recent years have witnessed a considerable extension in the defined activities covered by the CCT regime in UK local government. While the 1980s saw CCT applied to mainly manual services (such as refuse collection), the 1990s have witnessed the spread of compulsory competition into white-collar professions and services such as Housing Management. Recent accounts of CCT have tended to assess its overall impact within a framework that is mainly inf…
Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Local Government Services
This article examines the response of a sample of local authorities in the North of England to the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (Cm) following the 1988 Local Government Act. It analyses the Organizational implications of CCT and highlights how officers, councillors and trade union representatives viewed the changing nature of management within local authorities in the period following the award of the first service contracts. …
Doing Something About Those Inner Cities
Urban policy has been accorded a high priority by the post 1987 Conservative government. The document entitled 'ACTION FOR CITIES', published in March 1988 is important both for its review of government policies pursued since 1979, and its emphasis on the key policy measures that will characterise urban policy in Britain into the 1990s. This paper will outline the main assumptions lying behind the policies outlined in 'ACTION FOR CITIES' and cons…
Japan ́s Recent Anti‐Foreign Trend — Its Possible Impact on Japan and Implications for Asean
Japanese society has always been highly susceptible to changes in mood. And, at present, the mood indicates that it has reached the limits of its patience, and that the accumulation of dissatisfactions and disappointments experienced since 1960 could make a qualitative change in Japanese society all but inevitable. Perhaps a social revolution is already in the making. The necessary conditions are there. The only thing still lacking is a philosoph…
The Rise of the Resilient Local Authority
The term resilience is increasingly being utilised within the study of public policy to depict how individuals, communities and organisations can adapt, cope, and ‘bounce back’ when faced with external shocks such as climate change, economic recession and cuts in public expenditure. In focussing on the local dimensions of the resilience debate, this article argues that the term can provide useful insights into how the challenges facing local auth…
Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Local Government Services
This article examines the response of a sample of local authorities in the North of England to the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (Cm) following the 1988 Local Government Act. It analyses the Organizational implications of CCT and highlights how officers, councillors and trade union representatives viewed the changing nature of management within local authorities in the period following the award of the first service contracts. …
Managing for local resilience
The term resilience is increasingly being used to capture the challenges involved in managing in ‘hard times’. This article aims to provide one of the first empirical studies of the term’s application to local authority interventions around emergency planning and climate change: two areas in which resilience has been particularly emphasised in local policy making. Drawing upon research undertaken in the north east of England, the article consider…
Compulsory competition for local Government services in the UK
Recent years have witnessed a considerable extension in the defined activities covered by the CCT regime in UK local government. While the 1980s saw CCT applied to mainly manual services (such as refuse collection), the 1990s have witnessed the spread of compulsory competition into white-collar professions and services such as Housing Management. Recent accounts of CCT have tended to assess its overall impact within a framework that is mainly inf…
Regional Devolution and Democratic Renewal
In this paper we aim to assess critically the relationship between devolved government and democratic renewal through a focus on the potential for stakeholder involvement within elected regional assemblies. Drawing particularly upon evidence from North East England, we will consider how the creation of elected assemblies could reinvigorate democracy, given the constraints imposed (in regions such as the North East) by the unreformed and unreprese…
Japan ́s Recent Anti‐Foreign Trend — Its Possible Impact on Japan and Implications for Asean
Japanese society has always been highly susceptible to changes in mood. And, at present, the mood indicates that it has reached the limits of its patience, and that the accumulation of dissatisfactions and disappointments experienced since 1960 could make a qualitative change in Japanese society all but inevitable. Perhaps a social revolution is already in the making. The necessary conditions are there. The only thing still lacking is a philosoph…
Doing Something About Those Inner Cities
Urban policy has been accorded a high priority by the post 1987 Conservative government. The document entitled 'ACTION FOR CITIES', published in March 1988 is important both for its review of government policies pursued since 1979, and its emphasis on the key policy measures that will characterise urban policy in Britain into the 1990s. This paper will outline the main assumptions lying behind the policies outlined in 'ACTION FOR CITIES' and cons…
Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Local Government Services
This article examines the response of a sample of local authorities in the North of England to the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (Cm) following the 1988 Local Government Act. It analyses the Organizational implications of CCT and highlights how officers, councillors and trade union representatives viewed the changing nature of management within local authorities in the period following the award of the first service contracts. …
Assessing the Performance of Urban Development Corporations
Assessing the Performance of Urban Development Corporations
As UK Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) come to the end of their expected lifetimes it is now appropriate to embark upon an independent and comprehensive assessment of their overall impact. The article will seriously question whether the present system of DoE monitoring of specific UDC output measures has allowed for the provision of full and accurate information. It will be argued that the inconsistencies and definitional problems associated…
Compulsory competition for local Government services in the UK
Recent years have witnessed a considerable extension in the defined activities covered by the CCT regime in UK local government. While the 1980s saw CCT applied to mainly manual services (such as refuse collection), the 1990s have witnessed the spread of compulsory competition into white-collar professions and services such as Housing Management. Recent accounts of CCT have tended to assess its overall impact within a framework that is mainly inf…
Governing a Region
Public services in the North East of England are managed and provided by the traditional institutions of government and, now, by a large number of unelected bodies. The growth of these unelected bodies has led to increasingly fragmented governance, a lack of local accountability and lack of transparency.Almost all the institutions of governance in the region, both elected and unelected, are run by, predominantly, middle-aged (or older) middle-cla…
Regional development agencies and physical regeneration in England
Regional Devolution and Democratic Renewal
In this paper we aim to assess critically the relationship between devolved government and democratic renewal through a focus on the potential for stakeholder involvement within elected regional assemblies. Drawing particularly upon evidence from North East England, we will consider how the creation of elected assemblies could reinvigorate democracy, given the constraints imposed (in regions such as the North East) by the unreformed and unreprese…
Developing inclusive approaches to regional governance in the post-referendum North East
Drawing upon empirical research of governance in the North East of England, this article aims to evaluate the impact of current practices of stakeholder engagement on declared aspirations of both inclusivity and democratic renewal. Using the North East Assembly (NEA) as a case study, it details the experiences and opinion of both ‘key’ and marginalized stakeholders of the NEA in its role as ‘the voice of the region’. Whilst highlighting examples …
Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afgh…
Introduction The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929) We live in challenging times with a heightened sense of uncer...
The Rise of the Resilient Local Authority
The term resilience is increasingly being utilised within the study of public policy to depict how individuals, communities and organisations can adapt, cope, and ‘bounce back’ when faced with external shocks such as climate change, economic recession and cuts in public expenditure. In focussing on the local dimensions of the resilience debate, this article argues that the term can provide useful insights into how the challenges facing local auth…
Managing for local resilience
The term resilience is increasingly being used to capture the challenges involved in managing in ‘hard times’. This article aims to provide one of the first empirical studies of the term’s application to local authority interventions around emergency planning and climate change: two areas in which resilience has been particularly emphasised in local policy making. Drawing upon research undertaken in the north east of England, the article consider…
Our Friends in the North’
The increasingly contested nature of the debate on Scottish independence has served to reinforce deeply-rooted fears in the North East and Cumbria over the economic implications of a more powerful Scotland. If anything, recent fraternal overtures from the Scottish Government have tended to lead to a hardening of the attitudes of those initially opposed to independence. However, this article also captures other responses which are underpinned by a…
Take us with you Scotland’? Post-Referendum and Post-Election Reflections from the North East Of England
This article examines the different reactions in North East England to the results of both the Scottish Independence Referendum in September 2014 and the General Election in May 2015. It outlines how the region's relief at the ‘No’ vote quickly gave way to traditional fears – once the Smith Commission had reported – that a more powerful Scotland would undermine economic fortunes just south of the border. To fear of a more powerful ‘neighbour’ was…
Bringing the Anglo-Scottish Border “Back in”
This special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies “brings the Anglo-Scottish border back in” by drawing upon six of the contributions from an ESRC Seminar Series on the nature of the cross-border relationship between Scotland and its “closest cousins,” in Northern England. The seminars, which took place in 2014–2015, involved a range of contributors including academics, policy-makers and practitioners, with the academics drawn from a range…
Northern Lights
Drawing on recent research on the Anglo-Scottish border, this article examines the social and economic impact of a more powerful Scotland on its “nearest neighbors” in the North East of England. In examining a series of competing narratives that shape how the significance of the Anglo-Scottish border and borderlands have been understood, the discussion begins by highlighting the longevity of a traditional conflictual narrative that a more powerfu…
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