John Parkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Parkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkinson |
| SIGNATURE | PARKINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7842-7739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 277 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1906 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Relating Dispositional Mindfulness and Long-Term Mindfulness Training with Executive Functioning, Emotion Regulation, and Well-Being in Pre-adolescents
The present study examined whether both dispositional mindfulness without mindfulness training and mindfulness resulting from longer-term mindfulness training are positively associated with pre-adolescents’ well-being, via enhanced executive functioning (EF) and emotion regulation. EF was assessed in a GoNoGo task via behavioral performance and event-related potentials. Study 1 ( N = 62) investigated associations of dispositional mindfulness with…
Big Data Analysis
This chapter defines big data and sets out methodological decisions to be made in big data analysis. It offers ways of researching millions of instances of ‘everyday talk’ in the public sphere, on a scale that is impossible using other methods, and thus especially useful for deliberative systems research. The chapter discusses some of the challenges in data gathering, sources, data cleaning, and tool selection and contextualize these challenges i…
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum
Deliberative systems theorists have for some time emphasised the distributed nature of deliberative values; they therefore do not focus exclusively on ‘deliberation’ but on all sorts of communication that advance deliberative democratic values, including everyday political talk in informal settings. However, such talk has been impossible to capture inductively at scale. This article discusses an electronic approach, Structural Topic Modelling, an…
Did Australia listen to Indigenous people on constitutional recognition? A big data analysis
This paper uses novel electronic tools to identify the degree to which Australia was listening to Indigenous peoples in a ‘national conversation’ about constitutional recognition between 2015 and late 2017. The results show that while there was a superficial overlap in themes, there were important differences of framing. Recognition remained a largely formal, elite and non-Indigenous concern, with First Nations focusing on treaties, sovereignty, …
The Roles of Referendums in Deliberative Systems
This paper does not ask to what degree referendums matchdeliberative democratic criteria, because no institution can. Instead,it asks what roles referendums can play in a deliberative system. Itargues that referendums can play constructive roles not just aslegitimating tools, but also by providing focusing events thatgenerate salience for everyday narratives of collective life. It alsoargues that small-scale deliberative processes work better whe…
Mapping and Measuring Deliberation: Towards a New Deliberative Quality
Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular will is itself illusory. On the contrary, deliberative democrats have shown that people are capable of being sophisticated, creative problem solvers, given the right opportunities in…
Efficacy of the attention control training program on reducing attentional bias in obese and overweight dieters
Claims and contexts: A reply to Barnett and Stevens
The real world of democratic theory
Political public space: What It Is, Why It Is Special and Why Standard Spatial Nostrums Mislead
How legislatures work – and should work – as public space
In a democracy, legislatures are not only stages for performances by elected representatives; they are also stages for performances by other players in the public sphere. This article argues that while many legislatures are designed and built as spaces for the public to engage with politics, and while democratic norms require some degree of access, increasingly what are termed "purposive publics" are being superseded by groups who are only public…
Deliberative Systems: Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leadi…
A systemic approach to deliberative democracy
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leadi…
Democracy and public space: The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance
In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy--assemblies, public galleries, and plazas--are becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet, Democracy and Public Space argues, such views are leading us to c…
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn ‐ by Robert E. Goodin
Symbolic Representation in Public Space: Capital Cities, Presence and Memory
This article looks at some dimensions of battles over the representation of people in the capital cities of modern democracies, looking at the symbolic aspects of representation rather than its principal-agent or descriptive aspects. It starts by presenting an account of democratic public space, and an account of how public representations are constructed. It then argues that such representations matter in a democracy because they specify who bel…
Localism and Deliberative Democracy
Research Article| January 01 2007 Localism and Deliberative Democracy John Parkinson John Parkinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 23–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Parkinson; Localism and Deliberative Democracy. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (1): 23–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711247 Downloa…
The House of Lords: A Deliberative Democratic Defence
This article defends the idea of an appointed House of Lords using deliberative democratic theory. The analysis suggests that while one might well think that current appointment procedures leave much to be desired, a reformed but still appointed House of Lords would be better at maximising the deliberative democratic qualities of inclusiveness and the scrutiny of arguments than a fully elected one; indeed, that election might do actual damage. It…
Deliberating in the Real World: Problems of Legitimacy in Deliberative Democracy
Preface 1. Deliberative Democracy and Legitimacy 2. Legitimacy Reconsidered: Theoretical Solutions 3. Health Politics and Deliberative Techniques 4. Representation and Representativeness 5. Deliberation as Drama: The Effects of Publicity 6. Reason and Persuasion 7. The Institutions of a Legitimate Deliberative Democracy 8. Questions and Conclusions References
Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Democracy
It is a fairly common criticism of deliberative democratic ideals that one cannot involve thousands, let alone millions, of people in a decision-making process and still retain its deliberative character, at least not in any sense as strict as those of the classic expositions of deliberative democratic principles. Various solutions to this scale problem have been proposed, but implicit in most deliberative designs is the media solution. People ca…
Of Scale and Straw Men: A Reply to Fishkin and Luskin
I am grateful to James Fishkin and Robert Luskin for taking the time to consider and respond to my remarks on the dangers of relying on the news media to form a bridge between participants and non-participants in deliberative events. Clearly we are in agreement that there is a difference between deliberations as experienced by participants and a television audience. However, Fishkin and Luskin have misrepresented my aims and claims about that dif…
Hearing Voices: Negotiating Representation Claims in Public Deliberation
The last decade has seen a great amount of experimentation with processes which involve citizens directly in public decision making, in part justified by claims of greater representativeness. However, representation arguments are also used to make cases against direct involvement of citizens, particularly by those with power under existing representative structures like elected officials and interest group leaders. This paper explores those confl…
Why Deliberate? The Encounter Between Deliberation and New Public Managers
A number of organizations in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) have been experimenting with ‘deliberative’ techniques of citizen involvement, techniques that were designed with democratic imperatives in mind. However, political practices are moulded by their institutional settings and the goals of their proponents, so it is unlikely that they have been left ‘pure’ following their encounter with public management imperatives. This paper offe…
Restorative justice: Deliberative Democracy in Action
This paper examines the emergence of restorative justice meetings—in which victims come face to face with offenders—and asks whether they provide an example of deliberative democracy in action. The article analyses some restorative justice initiatives from the United States and Australasia and finds that they exhibit inclusiveness, and create more scope for democratic control, but are less strong on the equality criterion. Accountability has also…
Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy
The classic accounts of deliberative democracy are also accounts of legitimacy: ‘that outcomes are legitimate to the extent they receive reflective assent through participation in authentic deliberation by all those subject to the decision in question’ ( Dryzek, 2001, p. 651 ). And yet, in complex societies deliberative participation by all those affected by collective decision-making is extremely implausible. There are also legitimacy problems w…
Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy
The classic accounts of deliberative democracy are also accounts of legitimacy: ‘that outcomes are legitimate to the extent they receive reflective assent through participation in authentic deliberation by all those subject to the decision in question’ ( Dryzek, 2001, p. 651 ). And yet, in complex societies deliberative participation by all those affected by collective decision-making is extremely implausible. There are also legitimacy problems w…
Why Deliberate? The Encounter Between Deliberation and New Public Managers
A number of organizations in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) have been experimenting with ‘deliberative’ techniques of citizen involvement, techniques that were designed with democratic imperatives in mind. However, political practices are moulded by their institutional settings and the goals of their proponents, so it is unlikely that they have been left ‘pure’ following their encounter with public management imperatives. This paper offe…
Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Democracy
It is a fairly common criticism of deliberative democratic ideals that one cannot involve thousands, let alone millions, of people in a decision-making process and still retain its deliberative character, at least not in any sense as strict as those of the classic expositions of deliberative democratic principles. Various solutions to this scale problem have been proposed, but implicit in most deliberative designs is the media solution. People ca…
The Roles of Referendums in Deliberative Systems
This paper does not ask to what degree referendums matchdeliberative democratic criteria, because no institution can. Instead,it asks what roles referendums can play in a deliberative system. Itargues that referendums can play constructive roles not just aslegitimating tools, but also by providing focusing events thatgenerate salience for everyday narratives of collective life. It alsoargues that small-scale deliberative processes work better whe…
Symbolic Representation in Public Space: Capital Cities, Presence and Memory
This article looks at some dimensions of battles over the representation of people in the capital cities of modern democracies, looking at the symbolic aspects of representation rather than its principal-agent or descriptive aspects. It starts by presenting an account of democratic public space, and an account of how public representations are constructed. It then argues that such representations matter in a democracy because they specify who bel…
The Combined Code on Corporate Governance
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum
Deliberative systems theorists have for some time emphasised the distributed nature of deliberative values; they therefore do not focus exclusively on ‘deliberation’ but on all sorts of communication that advance deliberative democratic values, including everyday political talk in informal settings. However, such talk has been impossible to capture inductively at scale. This article discusses an electronic approach, Structural Topic Modelling, an…
Hearing Voices: Negotiating Representation Claims in Public Deliberation
The last decade has seen a great amount of experimentation with processes which involve citizens directly in public decision making, in part justified by claims of greater representativeness. However, representation arguments are also used to make cases against direct involvement of citizens, particularly by those with power under existing representative structures like elected officials and interest group leaders. This paper explores those confl…
How legislatures work – and should work – as public space
In a democracy, legislatures are not only stages for performances by elected representatives; they are also stages for performances by other players in the public sphere. This article argues that while many legislatures are designed and built as spaces for the public to engage with politics, and while democratic norms require some degree of access, increasingly what are termed "purposive publics" are being superseded by groups who are only public…
The House of Lords: A Deliberative Democratic Defence
This article defends the idea of an appointed House of Lords using deliberative democratic theory. The analysis suggests that while one might well think that current appointment procedures leave much to be desired, a reformed but still appointed House of Lords would be better at maximising the deliberative democratic qualities of inclusiveness and the scrutiny of arguments than a fully elected one; indeed, that election might do actual damage. It…
Yöruba String Figures
Efficacy of the attention control training program on reducing attentional bias in obese and overweight dieters
Restorative justice: Deliberative Democracy in Action
This paper examines the emergence of restorative justice meetings—in which victims come face to face with offenders—and asks whether they provide an example of deliberative democracy in action. The article analyses some restorative justice initiatives from the United States and Australasia and finds that they exhibit inclusiveness, and create more scope for democratic control, but are less strong on the equality criterion. Accountability has also…
Note on the Asaba People (Ibos) of the Niger
Introduction.-Thefollowing notes refer to a section of the important tribe of Ibos, who, as a whole, occupy the country from the valley of the Niger, near to and, at Asaba, westward of the Cross River.Any remarks of value which may be contained in the pages of this paper I owe to the kindness of Mr. James Watt, District Commissioner at Asaba, to whose care and attentiorn I was indebted for a very excellent interpreter, and to the Fathers of the R…
Did Australia listen to Indigenous people on constitutional recognition? A big data analysis
This paper uses novel electronic tools to identify the degree to which Australia was listening to Indigenous peoples in a ‘national conversation’ about constitutional recognition between 2015 and late 2017. The results show that while there was a superficial overlap in themes, there were important differences of framing. Recognition remained a largely formal, elite and non-Indigenous concern, with First Nations focusing on treaties, sovereignty, …
Who Knows Best? The Creation of the Citizen‐initiated Referendum in New Zealand
Among Arguments Advanced In Favour Of Direct Democracy, legitimacy pleas loom large. If the rules governing people can only be legitimate when those rules arise from and represent the will of all, then it is commonly argued that people should have the right to vote not just for representatives but on substantive issues of public policy as well. To claim otherwise is regarded as anti-democratic: for example, Bogdanor writes that ‘in the final anal…
A Tour of Russia, Siberia and the Crimea, 1792-1794
Of Scale and Straw Men: A Reply to Fishkin and Luskin
I am grateful to James Fishkin and Robert Luskin for taking the time to consider and respond to my remarks on the dangers of relying on the news media to form a bridge between participants and non-participants in deliberative events. Clearly we are in agreement that there is a difference between deliberations as experienced by participants and a television audience. However, Fishkin and Luskin have misrepresented my aims and claims about that dif…
The East African Trough in the Neighbourhood of the Soda Lakes
Political public space: What It Is, Why It Is Special and Why Standard Spatial Nostrums Mislead
A Note on the Taita Hills, Kenya Colony
FOR nearly seventeen months in 1940-41, the writer made extensive traverses across that part of Kenya lying east of Kilima Njaro and north of the Voi-Taveta branch railway. The water supply of the region is of much economic importance because of the rapid desiccation, which has now reached a stage recalling the semi-desert of the Northern Frontier Province of Kenya (Geogr..J. 94(1939)162). The central part of the district is drained by the Tsavo …
Notes on the Northern Frontier Province, Kenya
The Stone Cairns of Northern Kenya
"Notes on the Efik Belief in "Bush Soul
Note on the Asaba People (Ibos) of the Niger
Introduction.-Thefollowing notes refer to a section of the important tribe of Ibos, who, as a whole, occupy the country from the valley of the Niger, near to and, at Asaba, westward of the Cross River.Any remarks of value which may be contained in the pages of this paper I owe to the kindness of Mr. James Watt, District Commissioner at Asaba, to whose care and attentiorn I was indebted for a very excellent interpreter, and to the Fathers of the R…
"Notes on the Efik Belief in "Bush Soul
Yöruba String Figures
The Legend of Oro
A Note on the Efik and Ekoi Tribes of the Eastern Province of Southern Nigeria, W.C.A
John Parkinson, A Note on the Efik and Ekoi Tribes of the Eastern Province of Southern Nigeria, W.C.A., The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 37 (Jul. - Dec., 1907), pp. 261-267
The Structure of Southern Nigeria
Yoruba Folk-Lore
Journal Article YORUBA FOLK-LORE Get access JOHN PARKINSON, M.A., F.G.S. JOHN PARKINSON, M.A., F.G.S. Formerly Principal Mineral Survey of Southern Nigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume VIII, Issue XXX, January 1909, Pages 165–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098993 Published: 01 January 1909
The Land of the Ekoi, Southern Nigeria: Discussion
A Note on the Social Organisation of the Peoples of the Western Gold Coast
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Geology and Geography of Nigeria
The Geological Structure of West Africa
Journal Article THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF WEST AFRICA Get access JOHN PARKINSON JOHN PARKINSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XIII, Issue XLIX, October 1913, Pages 14–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a099255 Published: 01 October 1913
The East African Trough in the Neighbourhood of the Soda Lakes: Discussion
The East African Trough in the Neighbourhood of the Soda Lakes
Portuguese East Africa between the Zambezi River and the Sabi River: A Consideration of the Relation of Its Tectonic and Physiographic Features: Discussion
Problems of Geology in British East Africa (“Kenya Colony)
DURING the first few months of his tour, the geologist in Kenya Colony is probably more struck by the simplicity than by the complexity of the problems awaiting his solution. He sees raised coral reefs and the Coastal Belt of sediments, shales and sandstones of familiar and somewhat unprepossessing appearance; next, a plain composed of rocks rather resembling granites in aspect, with here and there hills, rising abruptly, built of the same rock t…
A Note on the Volcanic History of South and East Africa
The North-Western Extension of the Jubaland Plain and the Drainage of the Upper Nile
Notes on Jubaland
An Obsolete Official1
Journal Article AN OBSOLETE OFFICIAL Get access JOHN PARKINSON, D.Sc., F.R.G.S. JOHN PARKINSON, D.Sc., F.R.G.S. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXII, Issue CXXIX, October 1933, Pages 362–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100810 Published: 01 October 1933
The End of a War
Journal Article THE END OF A WAR Get access JOHN PARKINSON, D.Sc. JOHN PARKINSON, D.Sc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXIV, Issue CXXXIV, January 1935, Pages 72–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100900 Published: 01 January 1935
The Stone Cairns of Northern Kenya
Customs in Western British Somaliland
Journal Article CUSTOMS IN WESTERN BRITISH SOMALILAND Get access JOHN PARKINSON, Sc.D., F.G.S. JOHN PARKINSON, Sc.D., F.G.S. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXV, Issue CXL, July 1936, Pages 241–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101506 Published: 01 July 1936
Notes on the Northern Frontier Province, Kenya
A Note on the Taita Hills, Kenya Colony
FOR nearly seventeen months in 1940-41, the writer made extensive traverses across that part of Kenya lying east of Kilima Njaro and north of the Voi-Taveta branch railway. The water supply of the region is of much economic importance because of the rapid desiccation, which has now reached a stage recalling the semi-desert of the Northern Frontier Province of Kenya (Geogr..J. 94(1939)162). The central part of the district is drained by the Tsavo …
A Tour of Russia, Siberia and the Crimea, 1792-1794
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