J J Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J J Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J J |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Brexit Policy Fiasco
Campaigning for the Environment
Originally published in 1974 Campaigning for the Environment addresses the issue of the environmental lobby. Using seven case-studies from the time of publication, the book covers the important aspects of environmental campaigning, where the environment has been threatened and where pressure groups have been formed to defend it. The book discusses the political problems of protecting and improving the environment, and states that each campaign in…
Lobbying The European Union: Institutions, Actors, And Issues
It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely new volume, inspired by Mazey and Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the European Community, seeks to understand the role of interest groups in the policy process from agenda-setting to implementation. Specifically, the book is interested in observing how interest groups organise to in…
John David Lees
Information technology and economic recovery in Western Europe: The role of the British, French and West German governments
Linking Policy Areas: IT education, training and youth unemployment in the UK and West Germany
This paper is concerned with examining the extent to which governments in West Germany and the UK have attempted to achieve linkages between these adjacent policy areas. As a result of traditional labour market and educational practices, Germany enjoys comparatively low levels of youth unemployment and of IT skill shortages, and there has been no great imperative to ‘link’ these policy areas at the Federal level; a mainly ‘decentralised rationali…
The privatisation of British Telecom: A Case Study of the Extended Process of Legislation
One of the main ingredients in discourse about British politics concerns the extent to which, and under what conditions, central government can get its own way. Since 1979, the country has been ruled by a prime minister and a government placing at least rhetorical emphasis on the ‘politics of conviction’. At the same time we have a well established academic literature giving emphasis to the various hurdles in the policy‐making process which face …
New partnerships in local economic development: A case study of local entrepreneurship
1985). New partnerships in local economic development. Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 19-33
Engineering a Consensus: From the Finniston Report to the Engineering Council
It is now widely accepted that British governments find radical policy change difficult to Secure – especially where such change threatens to disturb a well‐developed interest group network. The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession (19801, chaired by Sir Monty Finniston, Engineering Our Future, was interesting because it proposed a very radical change in the way in which the engineering profession was organized and r…
Policy‐making With a Difference? The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
In this study we focus on the emergence of the technical and vocational education initiative. The formulation of the policy is found to differ from that of the conventional British policy style, in that it was announced without prior consultation with the education policy community. Further, overall responsibility for the initiative lies outside the traditional sphere of education — with the Manpower Services Commission. However, in the subsequen…
The Politics of Unemployment in Britain
Decision Making in Britain--O.U. Style
Decision Making in Britain—O.U. Style Get access J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 238–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/37.2.238 Published: 01 April 1984
Decision Making in BRITAIN—O.U. Style
DECISION MAKING IN BRITAIN—O.U. STYLE Get access J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 238–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051930 Published: 01 January 1984
The Unemployment Industry
Virtually all political issues carry with them a constellation of groups, jockeying to influence policy-makers (and implementers) and trying to influence the definition of the issue to their own advantage. The number of groups coalescing around a given issue can vary enormously. In some instances policy-makers may feel the need to consult literally hundreds of groups before going ahead with significant policy change. Such consultation may be cosm…
Overcrowded policymaking: Some British and European reflections
Policy Communities: The British and European Policy Style
It seems possible to formulate broad characterizations of the British and European policy processes in terms of the relationship between government and interest groups. There is a preferred type of machinery in Britain, reflecting normative values, which is to avoid electoral politics and public conflict in order to reach consensus or “accommodation” in the labyrinth of consultative machinery. This style is aptly labelled “bureaucratic accommodat…
Programme Evaluation in Britain and Sweden
PROGRAMME EVALUATION IN BRITAIN AND SWEDEN J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, SPRING 1982, Pages 160–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054305 Published: 01 March 1982
Tripartism and the New Technology
It is reasonable to argue that the impact of new technology could produce an important challenge to the political system’s capacity to adapt to change. The impact of the new technology may also produce new interests and alliances. Already there has been an interesting example of attempted co-operation between the CDI and the TUC, against a background of government encouragement in the context of the NEDC. Discussions between the CDI and the TUC o…
Problems of Controlling Public Sector Agencies: The Case of Norwegian Oil Policy
The problem of the control and accountability of public sector agencies is common in most Western democracies. Though ‘hiving off’ is seen as attractive by policy-makers, it often brings with it quite serious problems. It is important to take account of the role of the self-interest of agencies in designing control systems. This is particularly necessary where failure to control the activity of an agency can have serious consequences in other pol…
Problems of Steering and Control in Decentralized Public Programmes: Some lessons from the US Manpower Programme
As Lewis Gunn has recently pointed out, academics have hitherto been preoccupied with policy formulation, leaving the practical details of policy implementation to administrators. This situation, as he suggests, is rapidly changing. There is now a growing concern with problems of implementation and indeed with policy ‘failures’. We have gradually come to realize that there is considerable truth in the saying that he who implements, decides policy…
Managing the Political Agenda: Problem Definition and Policy Making in Britain
Journal Article MANAGING THE POLITICAL AGENDA: PROBLEM DEFINITION AND POLICY MAKING IN BRITAIN Get access Joan K. Stringer, Joan K. Stringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 23–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051831 Published: 01 Jan…
Agency Behaviour: The Case of Pollution Control in Sweden
What's Wrong With Books About What's Wrong With Modern Government
Journal Article WHAT'S WRONG WITH BOOKS ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH MODERN GOVERNMENT? Get access J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 228–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051778 Published: 01 January 1979
Concepts of Rationality and the Policy Process
Political scientists are seen as having some technical expertise in policy studies which might help policy‐makers in devising policies which “work”. Difficulties are likely to arise, however, if we do not first ask some fundamental questions. One seemingly obvious, though extremely difficult, question is “what are policies for ?” Having categorized the main objectives of policy‐making into three broad categories – namely “real” goods and services…
Policy Making and Rationality in Sweden: The Case of Transport
It is not uncommon for the case-study approach to the study of policy making to be criticized for failing to produce broad generalizations or concepts applicable to systems as a whole. For example, in discussing policy making and political culture in Sweden, Anton argues that case-studies of decision making do not offer an adequate or realistic view of the process. In doing so he suggests that we should shift our focus of concern ‘from the single…
Managing the Political Agenda: Problem Definition and Policy Making in Britain
Journal Article MANAGING THE POLITICAL AGENDA: PROBLEM DEFINITION AND POLICY MAKING IN BRITAIN Get access Joan K. Stringer, Joan K. Stringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 23–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051831 Published: 01 Jan…
Concepts of Rationality and the Policy Process
Political scientists are seen as having some technical expertise in policy studies which might help policy‐makers in devising policies which “work”. Difficulties are likely to arise, however, if we do not first ask some fundamental questions. One seemingly obvious, though extremely difficult, question is “what are policies for ?” Having categorized the main objectives of policy‐making into three broad categories – namely “real” goods and services…
Policy Communities: The British and European Policy Style
It seems possible to formulate broad characterizations of the British and European policy processes in terms of the relationship between government and interest groups. There is a preferred type of machinery in Britain, reflecting normative values, which is to avoid electoral politics and public conflict in order to reach consensus or “accommodation” in the labyrinth of consultative machinery. This style is aptly labelled “bureaucratic accommodat…
The privatisation of British Telecom: A Case Study of the Extended Process of Legislation
One of the main ingredients in discourse about British politics concerns the extent to which, and under what conditions, central government can get its own way. Since 1979, the country has been ruled by a prime minister and a government placing at least rhetorical emphasis on the ‘politics of conviction’. At the same time we have a well established academic literature giving emphasis to the various hurdles in the policy‐making process which face …
Lobbying, Administrative Reform and Policy Styles. The Case of Land Drainage
In this article we analyse the successful attempt by a group of interests concerned with water reorganization during the early 1970s to prevent a radical change in administrative arrangements concerning land drainage. Despite the apparently esoteric nature of the policy area, the ‘politics of land drainage’ was fundamentally concerned with the important matter of what has been called ‘the business concept’ of government. The case study also provi…
Overcrowded policymaking: Some British and European reflections
Policy‐making With a Difference? The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
In this study we focus on the emergence of the technical and vocational education initiative. The formulation of the policy is found to differ from that of the conventional British policy style, in that it was announced without prior consultation with the education policy community. Further, overall responsibility for the initiative lies outside the traditional sphere of education — with the Manpower Services Commission. However, in the subsequen…
The Unemployment Industry
Virtually all political issues carry with them a constellation of groups, jockeying to influence policy-makers (and implementers) and trying to influence the definition of the issue to their own advantage. The number of groups coalescing around a given issue can vary enormously. In some instances policy-makers may feel the need to consult literally hundreds of groups before going ahead with significant policy change. Such consultation may be cosm…
Policy Making and Rationality in Sweden: The Case of Transport
It is not uncommon for the case-study approach to the study of policy making to be criticized for failing to produce broad generalizations or concepts applicable to systems as a whole. For example, in discussing policy making and political culture in Sweden, Anton argues that case-studies of decision making do not offer an adequate or realistic view of the process. In doing so he suggests that we should shift our focus of concern ‘from the single…
The Growth of the Environment as a Political Issue in Britain
Various commentators have expressed their subjective impressions that ‘the environment’ emerged suddenly as a political issue. That the number of groups, journals and books relating to ‘the environment’ has dramatically increased is indisputable. What is not clear, however, is whether the increase has been in the awareness of relationships between problems which could then be subsumed under the general heading ‘the environment’ or whether increas…
New partnerships in local economic development: A case study of local entrepreneurship
1985). New partnerships in local economic development. Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 19-33
The Politics of Unemployment in Britain
The Origins of the Water Act of 1973 1
Tripartism and the New Technology
It is reasonable to argue that the impact of new technology could produce an important challenge to the political system’s capacity to adapt to change. The impact of the new technology may also produce new interests and alliances. Already there has been an interesting example of attempted co-operation between the CDI and the TUC, against a background of government encouragement in the context of the NEDC. Discussions between the CDI and the TUC o…
The Environmental Lobby in Britain
Parliamentary Questions and the Allocation of Departmental Responsibilities
Journal Article PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS AND THE ALLOCATION OF DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES Get access Richard Kimber, Richard Kimber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. J. Richardson, J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. K. Brookes, S. K. Brookes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. G. Jordan A. G. Jordan Search …
Linking Policy Areas: IT education, training and youth unemployment in the UK and West Germany
This paper is concerned with examining the extent to which governments in West Germany and the UK have attempted to achieve linkages between these adjacent policy areas. As a result of traditional labour market and educational practices, Germany enjoys comparatively low levels of youth unemployment and of IT skill shortages, and there has been no great imperative to ‘link’ these policy areas at the Federal level; a mainly ‘decentralised rationali…
Engineering a Consensus: From the Finniston Report to the Engineering Council
It is now widely accepted that British governments find radical policy change difficult to Secure – especially where such change threatens to disturb a well‐developed interest group network. The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession (19801, chaired by Sir Monty Finniston, Engineering Our Future, was interesting because it proposed a very radical change in the way in which the engineering profession was organized and r…
Problems of Controlling Public Sector Agencies: The Case of Norwegian Oil Policy
The problem of the control and accountability of public sector agencies is common in most Western democracies. Though ‘hiving off’ is seen as attractive by policy-makers, it often brings with it quite serious problems. It is important to take account of the role of the self-interest of agencies in designing control systems. This is particularly necessary where failure to control the activity of an agency can have serious consequences in other pol…
The integration of groups in the policy process: A case study
Participation and conservation: The chester conservation area advisory committee∗
Specialization and Parliamentary Standing Committees
The Transport Holding Company and the Transport White Paper
Specialization and Parliamentary Standing Committees
The Administration of Denationalization: The Case of Road Haulage
The British Waterways Board: A Neglected Asset
British Government and the Transport Reform Movement
Parliamentary Questions and the Allocation of Departmental Responsibilities
Journal Article PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS AND THE ALLOCATION OF DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES Get access Richard Kimber, Richard Kimber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. J. Richardson, J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. K. Brookes, S. K. Brookes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. G. Jordan A. G. Jordan Search …
Case-Studies in British Government
The Environmental Lobby in Britain
Participation and conservation: The chester conservation area advisory committee∗
The Growth of the Environment as a Political Issue in Britain
Various commentators have expressed their subjective impressions that ‘the environment’ emerged suddenly as a political issue. That the number of groups, journals and books relating to ‘the environment’ has dramatically increased is indisputable. What is not clear, however, is whether the increase has been in the awareness of relationships between problems which could then be subsumed under the general heading ‘the environment’ or whether increas…
The Origins of the Water Act of 1973 1
The integration of groups in the policy process: A case study
Lobbying, Administrative Reform and Policy Styles. The Case of Land Drainage
In this article we analyse the successful attempt by a group of interests concerned with water reorganization during the early 1970s to prevent a radical change in administrative arrangements concerning land drainage. Despite the apparently esoteric nature of the policy area, the ‘politics of land drainage’ was fundamentally concerned with the important matter of what has been called ‘the business concept’ of government. The case study also provi…
Agency Behaviour: The Case of Pollution Control in Sweden
What's Wrong With Books About What's Wrong With Modern Government
Journal Article WHAT'S WRONG WITH BOOKS ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH MODERN GOVERNMENT? Get access J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 228–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051778 Published: 01 January 1979
Concepts of Rationality and the Policy Process
Political scientists are seen as having some technical expertise in policy studies which might help policy‐makers in devising policies which “work”. Difficulties are likely to arise, however, if we do not first ask some fundamental questions. One seemingly obvious, though extremely difficult, question is “what are policies for ?” Having categorized the main objectives of policy‐making into three broad categories – namely “real” goods and services…
Policy Making and Rationality in Sweden: The Case of Transport
It is not uncommon for the case-study approach to the study of policy making to be criticized for failing to produce broad generalizations or concepts applicable to systems as a whole. For example, in discussing policy making and political culture in Sweden, Anton argues that case-studies of decision making do not offer an adequate or realistic view of the process. In doing so he suggests that we should shift our focus of concern ‘from the single…
Managing the Political Agenda: Problem Definition and Policy Making in Britain
Journal Article MANAGING THE POLITICAL AGENDA: PROBLEM DEFINITION AND POLICY MAKING IN BRITAIN Get access Joan K. Stringer, Joan K. Stringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 23–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051831 Published: 01 Jan…
Problems of Controlling Public Sector Agencies: The Case of Norwegian Oil Policy
The problem of the control and accountability of public sector agencies is common in most Western democracies. Though ‘hiving off’ is seen as attractive by policy-makers, it often brings with it quite serious problems. It is important to take account of the role of the self-interest of agencies in designing control systems. This is particularly necessary where failure to control the activity of an agency can have serious consequences in other pol…
Problems of Steering and Control in Decentralized Public Programmes: Some lessons from the US Manpower Programme
As Lewis Gunn has recently pointed out, academics have hitherto been preoccupied with policy formulation, leaving the practical details of policy implementation to administrators. This situation, as he suggests, is rapidly changing. There is now a growing concern with problems of implementation and indeed with policy ‘failures’. We have gradually come to realize that there is considerable truth in the saying that he who implements, decides policy…
Programme Evaluation in Britain and Sweden
PROGRAMME EVALUATION IN BRITAIN AND SWEDEN J. J. Richardson J. J. Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, SPRING 1982, Pages 160–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054305 Published: 01 March 1982
Tripartism and the New Technology
It is reasonable to argue that the impact of new technology could produce an important challenge to the political system’s capacity to adapt to change. The impact of the new technology may also produce new interests and alliances. Already there has been an interesting example of attempted co-operation between the CDI and the TUC, against a background of government encouragement in the context of the NEDC. Discussions between the CDI and the TUC o…
Overcrowded policymaking: Some British and European reflections
Policy Communities: The British and European Policy Style
It seems possible to formulate broad characterizations of the British and European policy processes in terms of the relationship between government and interest groups. There is a preferred type of machinery in Britain, reflecting normative values, which is to avoid electoral politics and public conflict in order to reach consensus or “accommodation” in the labyrinth of consultative machinery. This style is aptly labelled “bureaucratic accommodat…
Engineering a Consensus: From the Finniston Report to the Engineering Council
It is now widely accepted that British governments find radical policy change difficult to Secure – especially where such change threatens to disturb a well‐developed interest group network. The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession (19801, chaired by Sir Monty Finniston, Engineering Our Future, was interesting because it proposed a very radical change in the way in which the engineering profession was organized and r…
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