D A Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 4130818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D A Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | D A |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8389-8079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1735 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: The case of the Prison Service in England and Wales
A paradox of the New Public Management reform – an influential school of thought in the management of public services in some countries – is that, despite its rhetoric of discretion for public managers, governments frequently reassert direct input controls at the expense of managerial freedoms to deliver – and be held accountable for – agreed output/outcome objectives. The existing literature explains this by highlighting elite incentive structur…
Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time
This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent decades. It offers a novel framework – ‘Hyper-Active Incrementalism’ – to conceptualise the way that public policy in this area is prone to being short-term, under-evaluated, reactive, fragmented, incremental and top-down. It applies this framework to a historical survey of spatial policy, offering a nuanced understanding of the causes of these pathologi…
Crisis what crisis?’ Understanding the recurring problems of the British state
This article seeks to explain the current crises besetting the UK state, arguing their seeds can be traced back to past failures to reform Britain’s pre-modern state arrangements. We argue the perpetuation of a political cutlure organised round the highly centralising British Political Tradition has proved increasingly incompatible with a fragmented governance landscape driven by forty years of New Public Management informed reforms. We posit thi…
Development of the Intcal Database
The IntCal family of radiocarbon ( 14 C) calibration curves is based on research spanning more than three decades. The IntCal group have collated the 14 C and calendar age data (mostly derived from primary publications with other types of data and meta-data) and, since 2010, made them available for other sorts of analysis through an open-access database. This has ensured transparency in terms of the data used in the construction of the ratified c…
The Westminster Model and the “Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite: A Convenient Myth Whose Time Is Up
This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal–agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister…
Early–middle Holocene relative sea-level oscillation events recorded in a submerged speleothem from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Geomorphological and biological archives of relative sea-level change in the western North Atlantic-Caribbean region following the Last Glacial Maximum have traditionally supported the hypothesis of a punctuated rise towards the present sea level. Such records, however, are often at insufficient resolution to discern centennial-scale changes. In caves where the water table is closely controlled by sea level, active periods of speleothem growth co…
Devolution in England, the British Political Tradition and the Absence of Consultation, Consensus and Consideration
This article explores the nature of devolution unfolding in England following on from the September 2014 Scottish Referendum. It argues that the process of devolution can best be understood as one of elite co-option. Limited attention is being paid to the interest of citizens and the nature of the process to date reveals little evidence to suggest that the existing structures of power in the British political system are being challenged. These dy…
The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on College Choice for High-Achieving, Low-Income African American Students
Ryan J. Davis, Barry Nagle, David A. R. Richards, Janet T. Awokoya, The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on College Choice for High-Achieving, Low-Income African American Students, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 82, No. 3, The Race Against Time: Preparing Black Students for the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (Guest Editors: Bryant T. Marks and Karl W. Reid) (Summer 2013), pp. 226-242
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental record from a sedimentary fill in Cucú Cave, Almería, SE Spain
Cucú cave is a small cavity, 1600 m above sea level on the southern slope of Sierra de María (Almería Province, SE Spain), where current mean annual precipitation is
A child's burial in unconsecrated ground in early modern Dorchester, Dorset
Re-examination of a child burial found during excavations in advance of the construction of new offices for Dorset County Council in the north-west quarter of Dorchester in 1937 indicates that it is of early modern, rather than of Roman date, as originally believed at the time of excavation. A possible context is explored for the burial of a child in unconsecrated ground in the 17th century
Political Memoirs and New Labour: Interpretations of Power and the ‘Club Rules’
This article uses the Westminster Model to construct a framework for interpreting the nature of power relations presented in British political memoirs, one that emphasises the role of ‘historical impact’. It then argues that the model's ethos has a culture of honourable secrecy and club regulation which conditions the memoirs of politicians and civil servants in contrasting ways. The article examines the current batch of New Labour memoirs and ob…
Predicting policy attitudes from general prejudice versus specific intergroup emotions
IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP
The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14 C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves…
Effective precipitation in southern Spain (∼ 266 To 46 Ka) based on a speleothem stable carbon isotope record
We present the longest-duration directly dated terrestrial palaeoclimate record from the western Mediterranean region: a flowstone speleothem from Gitana Cave, southeast Spain. The main phase of growth was 274 to 58 ka, dated by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) U-series methods. Effective precipitation, which we consider primarily responsible for flowstone calcite δ 13 C variations, measured at 300 μm resolu…
Screening for Depression in Medical Settings with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ): A Diagnostic Meta-Analysis
Central control and policy implementation in the UK: A case study of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit
The election of Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 led to a significant increase of institutionalisation in the Prime Minister's Office, but the creation of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) in 2001 has led to a degree of formal, direct control over policy implementation. This paper seeks to explain the development of this capability in the context of contradictory features of the British political system: the high level of prime mini…
NotCal04—Comparison/Calibration 14 C Records 26–50 Cal Kyr BP
The radiocarbon calibration curve IntCal04 extends back to 26 cal kyr B P. While several high-resolution records exist beyond this limit, these data sets exhibit discrepancies of up to several millennia. As a result, no calibration curve for the time range 26–50 cal kyr BP can be recommended as yet, but in this paper the IntCal04 working group compares the available data sets and offers a discussion of the information that they hold
Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric 14 C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period
A long record of atmospheric 14 C concentration, from 45 to 11 thousand years ago (ka), was obtained from a stalagmite with thermal-ionization mass-spectrometric 230 Th and accelerator mass-spectrometric 14 C measurements. This record reveals highly elevated Δ 14 C between 45 and 33 ka, portions of which may correlate with peaks in cosmogenic 36 Cl and 10 Be isotopes observed in polar ice cores. Superimposed on this broad peak of Δ 14 C are sever…
Staging the Word the Spectacle of the Text in African Literature
'The spectacle of the text' refers to the presence of writing within African literature. By this, I do not mean specific allusions to other writings or quotations from other sources, nor do I wish to try to trace the networks of influences, borrowings and citations which have contributed to the writings of the three authors I will refer to. My title alludes, not to texts as resources, but, quite simply, to texts as objects: books, papers, documen…
The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230
The public service ethos and the role of the British civil service
The last Conservative administration invested much time and effort in reforming the structure and organisation of the Civil Service. Yet it left untouched the core principles which underpinned Whitehall, often referred to as the public service ethos. In this article, we argue that this ethos has been defended by both conservative and liberal opinion as something fundamentally good. Yet, in reality, the public service ethos is a power/knowledge sy…
How Departments Change: Windows of Opportunity and Critical Junctures in Three Departments
Despite the difficulty of large-scale organisational change, it is clear that the last 18 years of Conservative government has seen some major changes in both the structures and cultures of government department. This paper examines why and how departments change when they do. Although ministers frequently have explicit intentions to change the cultures of departments, the often fail. The paper suggests that major, cultural reorientations of depa…
The man died’ in Africa95
A review of a conference, two exhibitions and a play which demonstrate the themes and arguments generated by africa95 which sought to present dynamic cultural work of a continent too often portrayed as a place of famines and tyrants. If the events of africa95 were clouded by the murder of an artist, they still had much to say about the ‘glorious productivity of African cultures’
The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics
Contributors, v Preface, ix I Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (1834) W.J. Leatherbarrow, 1 II Lermontov: A Hero of our Time (1840) D.J. Richards, 15 III Gogol: The Greatcoat (1842) R.A. Peace, 27 IV Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862) A.D.P. Briggs, 41 V Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground (1864) Malcolm V. Jones, 55 VI Tolstoy: War and Peace (1865-69) C.R.S. Cockrell and D.J. Richards, 67 VII Chekhov: The Lady with the Dog (1899) C.R.S. Cockrell, 81 R…
Becoming a dentist
IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP
The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14 C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves…
NotCal04—Comparison/Calibration 14 C Records 26–50 Cal Kyr BP
The radiocarbon calibration curve IntCal04 extends back to 26 cal kyr B P. While several high-resolution records exist beyond this limit, these data sets exhibit discrepancies of up to several millennia. As a result, no calibration curve for the time range 26–50 cal kyr BP can be recommended as yet, but in this paper the IntCal04 working group compares the available data sets and offers a discussion of the information that they hold
The Westminster Model and the “Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite: A Convenient Myth Whose Time Is Up
This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal–agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister…
Predicting policy attitudes from general prejudice versus specific intergroup emotions
Devolution in England, the British Political Tradition and the Absence of Consultation, Consensus and Consideration
This article explores the nature of devolution unfolding in England following on from the September 2014 Scottish Referendum. It argues that the process of devolution can best be understood as one of elite co-option. Limited attention is being paid to the interest of citizens and the nature of the process to date reveals little evidence to suggest that the existing structures of power in the British political system are being challenged. These dy…
The public service ethos and the role of the British civil service
The last Conservative administration invested much time and effort in reforming the structure and organisation of the Civil Service. Yet it left untouched the core principles which underpinned Whitehall, often referred to as the public service ethos. In this article, we argue that this ethos has been defended by both conservative and liberal opinion as something fundamentally good. Yet, in reality, the public service ethos is a power/knowledge sy…
Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time
This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent decades. It offers a novel framework – ‘Hyper-Active Incrementalism’ – to conceptualise the way that public policy in this area is prone to being short-term, under-evaluated, reactive, fragmented, incremental and top-down. It applies this framework to a historical survey of spatial policy, offering a nuanced understanding of the causes of these pathologi…
Political Memoirs and New Labour: Interpretations of Power and the ‘Club Rules’
This article uses the Westminster Model to construct a framework for interpreting the nature of power relations presented in British political memoirs, one that emphasises the role of ‘historical impact’. It then argues that the model's ethos has a culture of honourable secrecy and club regulation which conditions the memoirs of politicians and civil servants in contrasting ways. The article examines the current batch of New Labour memoirs and ob…
Central control and policy implementation in the UK: A case study of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit
The election of Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 led to a significant increase of institutionalisation in the Prime Minister's Office, but the creation of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) in 2001 has led to a degree of formal, direct control over policy implementation. This paper seeks to explain the development of this capability in the context of contradictory features of the British political system: the high level of prime mini…
Crisis what crisis?’ Understanding the recurring problems of the British state
This article seeks to explain the current crises besetting the UK state, arguing their seeds can be traced back to past failures to reform Britain’s pre-modern state arrangements. We argue the perpetuation of a political cutlure organised round the highly centralising British Political Tradition has proved increasingly incompatible with a fragmented governance landscape driven by forty years of New Public Management informed reforms. We posit thi…
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: The case of the Prison Service in England and Wales
A paradox of the New Public Management reform – an influential school of thought in the management of public services in some countries – is that, despite its rhetoric of discretion for public managers, governments frequently reassert direct input controls at the expense of managerial freedoms to deliver – and be held accountable for – agreed output/outcome objectives. The existing literature explains this by highlighting elite incentive structur…
Development of the Intcal Database
The IntCal family of radiocarbon ( 14 C) calibration curves is based on research spanning more than three decades. The IntCal group have collated the 14 C and calendar age data (mostly derived from primary publications with other types of data and meta-data) and, since 2010, made them available for other sorts of analysis through an open-access database. This has ensured transparency in terms of the data used in the construction of the ratified c…
A child's burial in unconsecrated ground in early modern Dorchester, Dorset
Re-examination of a child burial found during excavations in advance of the construction of new offices for Dorset County Council in the north-west quarter of Dorchester in 1937 indicates that it is of early modern, rather than of Roman date, as originally believed at the time of excavation. A possible context is explored for the burial of a child in unconsecrated ground in the 17th century
How Departments Change: Windows of Opportunity and Critical Junctures in Three Departments
Despite the difficulty of large-scale organisational change, it is clear that the last 18 years of Conservative government has seen some major changes in both the structures and cultures of government department. This paper examines why and how departments change when they do. Although ministers frequently have explicit intentions to change the cultures of departments, the often fail. The paper suggests that major, cultural reorientations of depa…
Becoming a dentist
The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics
Contributors, v Preface, ix I Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (1834) W.J. Leatherbarrow, 1 II Lermontov: A Hero of our Time (1840) D.J. Richards, 15 III Gogol: The Greatcoat (1842) R.A. Peace, 27 IV Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862) A.D.P. Briggs, 41 V Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground (1864) Malcolm V. Jones, 55 VI Tolstoy: War and Peace (1865-69) C.R.S. Cockrell and D.J. Richards, 67 VII Chekhov: The Lady with the Dog (1899) C.R.S. Cockrell, 81 R…
The man died’ in Africa95
A review of a conference, two exhibitions and a play which demonstrate the themes and arguments generated by africa95 which sought to present dynamic cultural work of a continent too often portrayed as a place of famines and tyrants. If the events of africa95 were clouded by the murder of an artist, they still had much to say about the ‘glorious productivity of African cultures’
How Departments Change: Windows of Opportunity and Critical Junctures in Three Departments
Despite the difficulty of large-scale organisational change, it is clear that the last 18 years of Conservative government has seen some major changes in both the structures and cultures of government department. This paper examines why and how departments change when they do. Although ministers frequently have explicit intentions to change the cultures of departments, the often fail. The paper suggests that major, cultural reorientations of depa…
The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230
The public service ethos and the role of the British civil service
The last Conservative administration invested much time and effort in reforming the structure and organisation of the Civil Service. Yet it left untouched the core principles which underpinned Whitehall, often referred to as the public service ethos. In this article, we argue that this ethos has been defended by both conservative and liberal opinion as something fundamentally good. Yet, in reality, the public service ethos is a power/knowledge sy…
Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric 14 C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period
A long record of atmospheric 14 C concentration, from 45 to 11 thousand years ago (ka), was obtained from a stalagmite with thermal-ionization mass-spectrometric 230 Th and accelerator mass-spectrometric 14 C measurements. This record reveals highly elevated Δ 14 C between 45 and 33 ka, portions of which may correlate with peaks in cosmogenic 36 Cl and 10 Be isotopes observed in polar ice cores. Superimposed on this broad peak of Δ 14 C are sever…
Staging the Word the Spectacle of the Text in African Literature
'The spectacle of the text' refers to the presence of writing within African literature. By this, I do not mean specific allusions to other writings or quotations from other sources, nor do I wish to try to trace the networks of influences, borrowings and citations which have contributed to the writings of the three authors I will refer to. My title alludes, not to texts as resources, but, quite simply, to texts as objects: books, papers, documen…
NotCal04—Comparison/Calibration 14 C Records 26–50 Cal Kyr BP
The radiocarbon calibration curve IntCal04 extends back to 26 cal kyr B P. While several high-resolution records exist beyond this limit, these data sets exhibit discrepancies of up to several millennia. As a result, no calibration curve for the time range 26–50 cal kyr BP can be recommended as yet, but in this paper the IntCal04 working group compares the available data sets and offers a discussion of the information that they hold
Central control and policy implementation in the UK: A case study of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit
The election of Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 led to a significant increase of institutionalisation in the Prime Minister's Office, but the creation of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) in 2001 has led to a degree of formal, direct control over policy implementation. This paper seeks to explain the development of this capability in the context of contradictory features of the British political system: the high level of prime mini…
Screening for Depression in Medical Settings with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ): A Diagnostic Meta-Analysis
Effective precipitation in southern Spain (∼ 266 To 46 Ka) based on a speleothem stable carbon isotope record
We present the longest-duration directly dated terrestrial palaeoclimate record from the western Mediterranean region: a flowstone speleothem from Gitana Cave, southeast Spain. The main phase of growth was 274 to 58 ka, dated by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) U-series methods. Effective precipitation, which we consider primarily responsible for flowstone calcite δ 13 C variations, measured at 300 μm resolu…
Predicting policy attitudes from general prejudice versus specific intergroup emotions
IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP
The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14 C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves…
Political Memoirs and New Labour: Interpretations of Power and the ‘Club Rules’
This article uses the Westminster Model to construct a framework for interpreting the nature of power relations presented in British political memoirs, one that emphasises the role of ‘historical impact’. It then argues that the model's ethos has a culture of honourable secrecy and club regulation which conditions the memoirs of politicians and civil servants in contrasting ways. The article examines the current batch of New Labour memoirs and ob…
A child's burial in unconsecrated ground in early modern Dorchester, Dorset
Re-examination of a child burial found during excavations in advance of the construction of new offices for Dorset County Council in the north-west quarter of Dorchester in 1937 indicates that it is of early modern, rather than of Roman date, as originally believed at the time of excavation. A possible context is explored for the burial of a child in unconsecrated ground in the 17th century
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental record from a sedimentary fill in Cucú Cave, Almería, SE Spain
Cucú cave is a small cavity, 1600 m above sea level on the southern slope of Sierra de María (Almería Province, SE Spain), where current mean annual precipitation is
The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on College Choice for High-Achieving, Low-Income African American Students
Ryan J. Davis, Barry Nagle, David A. R. Richards, Janet T. Awokoya, The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on College Choice for High-Achieving, Low-Income African American Students, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 82, No. 3, The Race Against Time: Preparing Black Students for the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (Guest Editors: Bryant T. Marks and Karl W. Reid) (Summer 2013), pp. 226-242
Early–middle Holocene relative sea-level oscillation events recorded in a submerged speleothem from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Geomorphological and biological archives of relative sea-level change in the western North Atlantic-Caribbean region following the Last Glacial Maximum have traditionally supported the hypothesis of a punctuated rise towards the present sea level. Such records, however, are often at insufficient resolution to discern centennial-scale changes. In caves where the water table is closely controlled by sea level, active periods of speleothem growth co…
Devolution in England, the British Political Tradition and the Absence of Consultation, Consensus and Consideration
This article explores the nature of devolution unfolding in England following on from the September 2014 Scottish Referendum. It argues that the process of devolution can best be understood as one of elite co-option. Limited attention is being paid to the interest of citizens and the nature of the process to date reveals little evidence to suggest that the existing structures of power in the British political system are being challenged. These dy…
The Westminster Model and the “Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite: A Convenient Myth Whose Time Is Up
This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal–agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister…
Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time
This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent decades. It offers a novel framework – ‘Hyper-Active Incrementalism’ – to conceptualise the way that public policy in this area is prone to being short-term, under-evaluated, reactive, fragmented, incremental and top-down. It applies this framework to a historical survey of spatial policy, offering a nuanced understanding of the causes of these pathologi…
Crisis what crisis?’ Understanding the recurring problems of the British state
This article seeks to explain the current crises besetting the UK state, arguing their seeds can be traced back to past failures to reform Britain’s pre-modern state arrangements. We argue the perpetuation of a political cutlure organised round the highly centralising British Political Tradition has proved increasingly incompatible with a fragmented governance landscape driven by forty years of New Public Management informed reforms. We posit thi…
Development of the Intcal Database
The IntCal family of radiocarbon ( 14 C) calibration curves is based on research spanning more than three decades. The IntCal group have collated the 14 C and calendar age data (mostly derived from primary publications with other types of data and meta-data) and, since 2010, made them available for other sorts of analysis through an open-access database. This has ensured transparency in terms of the data used in the construction of the ratified c…
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: The case of the Prison Service in England and Wales
A paradox of the New Public Management reform – an influential school of thought in the management of public services in some countries – is that, despite its rhetoric of discretion for public managers, governments frequently reassert direct input controls at the expense of managerial freedoms to deliver – and be held accountable for – agreed output/outcome objectives. The existing literature explains this by highlighting elite incentive structur…
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