Patrick Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6141-4491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The circular economy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Between 2017 and 2023, the circular economy was increasingly referenced by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) as a guide to more sustainable production and waste systems. It became an overarching idea for how to address many environmental challenges. MfE and MBIE statements refer to embedding circular principles into the economy and the role of central government in stewarding cir…
Intersections between housing affordability and meanings of home
Research into housing affordability has flourished alongside growth in house prices, just as successive governments have used a range of policy levers to curb price increases. To date, however, these policies have met with little success. One persuasive explanation for that failure is that housing policies have been developed using affordability metrics in ways that have reinforced neoliberal prescriptions for the provision of housing, and that s…
Evidence, interests and argumentation
This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the local community had expressed concern over the degradation of a river-mouth estuary caused by catchment management works built in the 1950s to support the farming sector. The estuary historically had been an important economic a…
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
Corruption scandals, scandal clusters and contemporary politics in New Zealand
While New Zealand enjoys a widely held view that it symbolises the qualities of a corruption-free democracy, over the past several years corruption scandals have increased markedly in number and intensity. It appears that corruption is becoming a part of the language of politics in New Zealand in a new way. This article explores this proposition with a particular focus on the incidence and character of corruption scandals during politically signi…
The New Latin American Left
Family Care and Social Capital
Can Social Media Predict Election Results? Evidence From New Zealand
The importance of social media for election campaigning has received a lot of attention recently. Using data from the 2011 New Zealand general election and the size of candidates' social media networks on Facebook and Twitter, we investigate whether social media is associated with election votes and probability of election success. Overall, our results suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship between the size of online socia…
The Approaches to Democracy and Human Rights
This article endeavors to deal with the theoretical framework of the approach of Southeast Asian states to democracy and human rights and to trace the contemporary developmental trajectory of liberal democracy and democracy in Southeast Asian states. It suggests that what is required is the eventual convergence of the positive values of liberal democracy (respect for rule of law and the protection of human rights) and positive Southeast Asian val…
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
The Age of Supported Independence
Agricultural Change and Social Sustainability in Rural New Zealand
Social sustainability in rural areas is a topic of considerable interest to policymakers. Changing agricultural practices and rural population decline are important issues for social sustainability. This paper investigates recent agricultural, land use, and population trends and considers how these trends are associated with change in communities in the rural Waikato region of New Zealand. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data is use…
Strategic Lessons of the 2000 Presidential Election
Labour Policy, Labour-Business Relations and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Chile's new civilian government, the centre-left Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, has been strongly praised for its efforts to strengthen the rights of labour and correct Chile's severe social inequalities. After nearly a decade of civilian rule, however, it has become increasingly clear that these efforts have not succeeded. Indeed, one of the defining features of Chile's new democracy is the profound inequality and imbalance of power…
Chile's Transformed Party System and the Future of Democratic Stability
Chile today is experiencing a new sociopolitical compromise no less significant than the so-called "compromise state" of the 1930s and 1940s. A central feature of the new arrangement has been the performance of Chile's party system. This role should be understood in terms of how it reflects, and helps to mitigate or aggravate, the tension between capital accumulation and the struggles over sociopolitical inclusion and distribution
The limits of democracy
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
Can Social Media Predict Election Results? Evidence From New Zealand
The importance of social media for election campaigning has received a lot of attention recently. Using data from the 2011 New Zealand general election and the size of candidates' social media networks on Facebook and Twitter, we investigate whether social media is associated with election votes and probability of election success. Overall, our results suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship between the size of online socia…
Labour Policy, Labour-Business Relations and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Chile's new civilian government, the centre-left Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, has been strongly praised for its efforts to strengthen the rights of labour and correct Chile's severe social inequalities. After nearly a decade of civilian rule, however, it has become increasingly clear that these efforts have not succeeded. Indeed, one of the defining features of Chile's new democracy is the profound inequality and imbalance of power…
Chile's Transformed Party System and the Future of Democratic Stability
Chile today is experiencing a new sociopolitical compromise no less significant than the so-called "compromise state" of the 1930s and 1940s. A central feature of the new arrangement has been the performance of Chile's party system. This role should be understood in terms of how it reflects, and helps to mitigate or aggravate, the tension between capital accumulation and the struggles over sociopolitical inclusion and distribution
The limits of democracy
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
The limits of democracy
Chile's Transformed Party System and the Future of Democratic Stability
Chile today is experiencing a new sociopolitical compromise no less significant than the so-called "compromise state" of the 1930s and 1940s. A central feature of the new arrangement has been the performance of Chile's party system. This role should be understood in terms of how it reflects, and helps to mitigate or aggravate, the tension between capital accumulation and the struggles over sociopolitical inclusion and distribution
Strategic Lessons of the 2000 Presidential Election
Labour Policy, Labour-Business Relations and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Chile's new civilian government, the centre-left Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, has been strongly praised for its efforts to strengthen the rights of labour and correct Chile's severe social inequalities. After nearly a decade of civilian rule, however, it has become increasingly clear that these efforts have not succeeded. Indeed, one of the defining features of Chile's new democracy is the profound inequality and imbalance of power…
The Age of Supported Independence
Agricultural Change and Social Sustainability in Rural New Zealand
Social sustainability in rural areas is a topic of considerable interest to policymakers. Changing agricultural practices and rural population decline are important issues for social sustainability. This paper investigates recent agricultural, land use, and population trends and considers how these trends are associated with change in communities in the rural Waikato region of New Zealand. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data is use…
The Approaches to Democracy and Human Rights
This article endeavors to deal with the theoretical framework of the approach of Southeast Asian states to democracy and human rights and to trace the contemporary developmental trajectory of liberal democracy and democracy in Southeast Asian states. It suggests that what is required is the eventual convergence of the positive values of liberal democracy (respect for rule of law and the protection of human rights) and positive Southeast Asian val…
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
Family Care and Social Capital
Can Social Media Predict Election Results? Evidence From New Zealand
The importance of social media for election campaigning has received a lot of attention recently. Using data from the 2011 New Zealand general election and the size of candidates' social media networks on Facebook and Twitter, we investigate whether social media is associated with election votes and probability of election success. Overall, our results suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship between the size of online socia…
The New Latin American Left
Corruption scandals, scandal clusters and contemporary politics in New Zealand
While New Zealand enjoys a widely held view that it symbolises the qualities of a corruption-free democracy, over the past several years corruption scandals have increased markedly in number and intensity. It appears that corruption is becoming a part of the language of politics in New Zealand in a new way. This article explores this proposition with a particular focus on the incidence and character of corruption scandals during politically signi…
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
Evidence, interests and argumentation
This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the local community had expressed concern over the degradation of a river-mouth estuary caused by catchment management works built in the 1950s to support the farming sector. The estuary historically had been an important economic a…
Intersections between housing affordability and meanings of home
Research into housing affordability has flourished alongside growth in house prices, just as successive governments have used a range of policy levers to curb price increases. To date, however, these policies have met with little success. One persuasive explanation for that failure is that housing policies have been developed using affordability metrics in ways that have reinforced neoliberal prescriptions for the provision of housing, and that s…
The circular economy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Between 2017 and 2023, the circular economy was increasingly referenced by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) as a guide to more sustainable production and waste systems. It became an overarching idea for how to address many environmental challenges. MfE and MBIE statements refer to embedding circular principles into the economy and the role of central government in stewarding cir…
Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works)