Kevin Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 4203356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
South Africa In History’s Shadow
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Cosmopolitan Europe
A post-apartheid landscape
Illustration 1 – Limpopo province Auteur : Kevin Cox, 12 mai 2005. The settlement shown here is located some thirty or so miles north of Polokwane in Limpopo province. Under apartheid it would have been a so-called “resettlement point”. It would have then been in one of the so-called “homelands” and so one of the destinations for those South Africans whom the apartheid government aimed to “re-unite with their ethnic brothers”. Originally the hous…
An Expression of Appreciation
The Sage Handbook of Political Geography
The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualized and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is divided into six sections: - Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptu…
Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA
Cox K. and Townsend A. (2005) Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA, Regional Studies 39 , 541–553. In England, a new institutional structure for local and regional development has recently emerged involving some decentralization of responsibility. A major focus has been stimulating and mediating inward investment. The new scale division of labour resembles somewhat that which has long been apparent in the USA. Simil…
Political Geography
Using a Spreadsheet to Process and Analyse Student Marks
This paper shows the use of a spreadsheet to process and analyse student assessment marks. The ideas are illustrated with examples from data for a first year programming subject, but the processing and analysis functions apply to many other assessment situations. The functions described are data collection and control, allocating grades, checking consistency across tutorials and analysing relationships between items of assessment and grades. The …
Expert systems as extensions of the human mind
Levels of Abstraction in Locality Studies
The Sage Handbook of Political Geography
The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualized and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is divided into six sections: - Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptu…
Levels of Abstraction in Locality Studies
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA
Cox K. and Townsend A. (2005) Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA, Regional Studies 39 , 541–553. In England, a new institutional structure for local and regional development has recently emerged involving some decentralization of responsibility. A major focus has been stimulating and mediating inward investment. The new scale division of labour resembles somewhat that which has long been apparent in the USA. Simil…
Levels of Abstraction in Locality Studies
Expert systems as extensions of the human mind
Using a Spreadsheet to Process and Analyse Student Marks
This paper shows the use of a spreadsheet to process and analyse student assessment marks. The ideas are illustrated with examples from data for a first year programming subject, but the processing and analysis functions apply to many other assessment situations. The functions described are data collection and control, allocating grades, checking consistency across tutorials and analysing relationships between items of assessment and grades. The …
Political Geography
Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA
Cox K. and Townsend A. (2005) Institutions and mediating inward investment in England and the USA, Regional Studies 39 , 541–553. In England, a new institutional structure for local and regional development has recently emerged involving some decentralization of responsibility. A major focus has been stimulating and mediating inward investment. The new scale division of labour resembles somewhat that which has long been apparent in the USA. Simil…
The Sage Handbook of Political Geography
The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualized and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is divided into six sections: - Scope and Development of Political Geography - key debates; the geography of knowledge; conceptualisations of power; and conceptu…
An Expression of Appreciation
A post-apartheid landscape
Illustration 1 – Limpopo province Auteur : Kevin Cox, 12 mai 2005. The settlement shown here is located some thirty or so miles north of Polokwane in Limpopo province. Under apartheid it would have been a so-called “resettlement point”. It would have then been in one of the so-called “homelands” and so one of the destinations for those South Africans whom the apartheid government aimed to “re-unite with their ethnic brothers”. Originally the hous…
Cosmopolitan Europe
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
South Africa In History’s Shadow
Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic policy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · European union (2 works)