Robina Goodlad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robina Goodlad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robina |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodlad |
| SIGNATURE | GOODLAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sources of city prosperity and cohesion
Responsible Participation and Housing
Tensions between individual liberty and collective social justice characterise many advanced liberal societies. These tensions are reflected in the challenges posed for representative democracy both by participatory democratic practices and by the current emphasis on (so-called) responsible participation. Based on the example of ‘community’ housing associations in Scotland, this paper explores these tensions. It is argued that the critique of res…
How Would We Know What Works
In 2002 the UK Home Office commissioned a review of research on community involvement in area-based initiatives. This found comparatively few studies that set out to measure the impact rather than the extent and nature of involvement and hence few answers to the question of what works. This article takes that finding as its starting point and sets out to develop a more robust framework for evaluating the impact of community involvement. It notes …
Social Justice and Disabled People
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with …
Social Justice and Public Policy
1 Key texts A basic introduction to political philosophy, covering social justice and related issues well is: Kymlicka, W. (2002), Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction , 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Introduction
In the 1970s and early 1980s, discussions of social justice in the social science literature focused largely on social class. The implicit assumption of much of the literature was that a more just society would be achieved through the reduction of inequalities in the distribution of economic and social resources. Since then, there has been a growing focus on plural aspects of social justice. Many writers now distinguish between distributive, cult…
Scottish Homelessness Policy
The paper is based on published sources and on a series of interviews with members of the Homelessness Task Force, which played a central role in the development of the award-winning legislation. The paper proceeds by considering the links between homelessness, social (injustice and human rights; evaluating Scottish homelessness policy against features that might be expected to characterise policy intended to contribute to social justice; and, fi…
Sacred cows, rational debates and the politics of the right to buy after devolution
The introduction of policy instruments such as the Right to Buy (RTB) led to prophecies of the demise of the welfare state in Western Europe. Yet it is increasingly apparent that a welfare state will survive, albeit in a restructured form. This paper examines the place of RTB in the restructuring of social rented housing in the UK and accounts for recent changes to it. A new politics of RTB has arisen from the restructuring of social housing. As …
Civic Culture, Community and Citizen Participation in Contrasting Neighbourhoods
This paper uses survey and qualitative evidence from four neighbourhoods in two cities to explore the hypothesis that citizen participation in urban governance is fostered by political structures and public policy as well as by a civic culture supportive of citizen involvement. The analysis shows that although the prospects for citizen participation are likely to be least propitious in poor neighbourhoods demonstrating lower educational attainmen…
Political Lobbying and the Unitary State
Citizenship in the New Welfare Market
In current debates about citizenship, three approaches to social rights can be detected. Three models of access to social rights mirror these accounts. The institutionalised rights model, based on the post-war welfare state, stresses education and information. The market efficiency model, stressing the need for consumer information, stems from contemporary neo-liberal, consumerist approaches to welfare provision. The radical model challenges the …
Rights and Security in Housing
Befriending and community care
BEFRIENDING IS A VALUED form of support for people in receipt of community care services, and offers something which is qualitatively different from the support which paid staff can give. This paper, based on recent research, explores the perspectives of users and reports on some of the problems facing befriending organisations
Housing and the Scottish New Towns
This paper examines the wind-up of the British new towns programme in Scotland, and the way in which housing tenure became a critical issue. The origins and development of the new towns are outlined, and the parts played by the main actors in the wind-up are considered. The paper is based on primary and secondary sources, and on interviews. The outcome-the transfer of a large proportion of the rented housing to local authorities—was not governmen…
The Housing Challenge in South Africa
This paper considers the housing conditions inherited by the new government in South Africa and the challenge they present. It draws on primary and secondary sources, and on interviews with some of the key actors involved in housing policy. It examines contemporary housing conditions, and the colonial and apartheid legacy which largely created them. It goes on to consider the implications of the struggle under apartheid for improvements in living…
Housing strategies in Europe 1880–1930
Tenant Participation and Tenant Power in British Council Housing
In this article we examine the relationship between tenant participation and tenants’ power. This is done by adopting an approach to power put forward by Clegg (1989) and using it to examine the findings of a study of tenant Participation based on a national survey of local authorities and detailed case studies in six local authorities in Britain. The key question addressed is whether tenant participation empowers tenants. The conclusion is that …
Conceptualising ‘enabling
The social bases of tenant organisation
From a reading of much literature emanating from the 1970s, one would get the impression that the tenants’ movement in Britain was a united force organised into ‘urban social movements’ which showed an orientation towards militant collective action. On the basis of research in six local authority areas, this paper shows that such a picture gives an inaccurate view of the tenants’ movement in Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rather the t…
The Origins and Activities of Tenants' Associations in Britain
This paper presents the results of a survey of tenants' associations in six local authority areas in Britain. The aim is to dispel the prevalent notion that there is a common reason for the formation of tenants' associations and that they travel a similar evolutionary path. Rather the paper aims to show that tenants' groups are formed for a variety of reasons and can follow a number of paths. It draws particular attention to the actions and attit…
Civic Culture, Community and Citizen Participation in Contrasting Neighbourhoods
This paper uses survey and qualitative evidence from four neighbourhoods in two cities to explore the hypothesis that citizen participation in urban governance is fostered by political structures and public policy as well as by a civic culture supportive of citizen involvement. The analysis shows that although the prospects for citizen participation are likely to be least propitious in poor neighbourhoods demonstrating lower educational attainmen…
How Would We Know What Works
In 2002 the UK Home Office commissioned a review of research on community involvement in area-based initiatives. This found comparatively few studies that set out to measure the impact rather than the extent and nature of involvement and hence few answers to the question of what works. This article takes that finding as its starting point and sets out to develop a more robust framework for evaluating the impact of community involvement. It notes …
The Housing Challenge in South Africa
This paper considers the housing conditions inherited by the new government in South Africa and the challenge they present. It draws on primary and secondary sources, and on interviews with some of the key actors involved in housing policy. It examines contemporary housing conditions, and the colonial and apartheid legacy which largely created them. It goes on to consider the implications of the struggle under apartheid for improvements in living…
Tenant Participation and Tenant Power in British Council Housing
In this article we examine the relationship between tenant participation and tenants’ power. This is done by adopting an approach to power put forward by Clegg (1989) and using it to examine the findings of a study of tenant Participation based on a national survey of local authorities and detailed case studies in six local authorities in Britain. The key question addressed is whether tenant participation empowers tenants. The conclusion is that …
Responsible Participation and Housing
Tensions between individual liberty and collective social justice characterise many advanced liberal societies. These tensions are reflected in the challenges posed for representative democracy both by participatory democratic practices and by the current emphasis on (so-called) responsible participation. Based on the example of ‘community’ housing associations in Scotland, this paper explores these tensions. It is argued that the critique of res…
Scottish Homelessness Policy
The paper is based on published sources and on a series of interviews with members of the Homelessness Task Force, which played a central role in the development of the award-winning legislation. The paper proceeds by considering the links between homelessness, social (injustice and human rights; evaluating Scottish homelessness policy against features that might be expected to characterise policy intended to contribute to social justice; and, fi…
Conceptualising ‘enabling
The Origins and Activities of Tenants' Associations in Britain
This paper presents the results of a survey of tenants' associations in six local authority areas in Britain. The aim is to dispel the prevalent notion that there is a common reason for the formation of tenants' associations and that they travel a similar evolutionary path. Rather the paper aims to show that tenants' groups are formed for a variety of reasons and can follow a number of paths. It draws particular attention to the actions and attit…
Citizenship in the New Welfare Market
In current debates about citizenship, three approaches to social rights can be detected. Three models of access to social rights mirror these accounts. The institutionalised rights model, based on the post-war welfare state, stresses education and information. The market efficiency model, stressing the need for consumer information, stems from contemporary neo-liberal, consumerist approaches to welfare provision. The radical model challenges the …
The social bases of tenant organisation
From a reading of much literature emanating from the 1970s, one would get the impression that the tenants’ movement in Britain was a united force organised into ‘urban social movements’ which showed an orientation towards militant collective action. On the basis of research in six local authority areas, this paper shows that such a picture gives an inaccurate view of the tenants’ movement in Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rather the t…
Social Justice and Disabled People
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with …
Sacred cows, rational debates and the politics of the right to buy after devolution
The introduction of policy instruments such as the Right to Buy (RTB) led to prophecies of the demise of the welfare state in Western Europe. Yet it is increasingly apparent that a welfare state will survive, albeit in a restructured form. This paper examines the place of RTB in the restructuring of social rented housing in the UK and accounts for recent changes to it. A new politics of RTB has arisen from the restructuring of social housing. As …
Social Justice and Public Policy
1 Key texts A basic introduction to political philosophy, covering social justice and related issues well is: Kymlicka, W. (2002), Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction , 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Political Lobbying and the Unitary State
The Origins and Activities of Tenants' Associations in Britain
This paper presents the results of a survey of tenants' associations in six local authority areas in Britain. The aim is to dispel the prevalent notion that there is a common reason for the formation of tenants' associations and that they travel a similar evolutionary path. Rather the paper aims to show that tenants' groups are formed for a variety of reasons and can follow a number of paths. It draws particular attention to the actions and attit…
The social bases of tenant organisation
From a reading of much literature emanating from the 1970s, one would get the impression that the tenants’ movement in Britain was a united force organised into ‘urban social movements’ which showed an orientation towards militant collective action. On the basis of research in six local authority areas, this paper shows that such a picture gives an inaccurate view of the tenants’ movement in Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rather the t…
Tenant Participation and Tenant Power in British Council Housing
In this article we examine the relationship between tenant participation and tenants’ power. This is done by adopting an approach to power put forward by Clegg (1989) and using it to examine the findings of a study of tenant Participation based on a national survey of local authorities and detailed case studies in six local authorities in Britain. The key question addressed is whether tenant participation empowers tenants. The conclusion is that …
Conceptualising ‘enabling
Housing strategies in Europe 1880–1930
Housing and the Scottish New Towns
This paper examines the wind-up of the British new towns programme in Scotland, and the way in which housing tenure became a critical issue. The origins and development of the new towns are outlined, and the parts played by the main actors in the wind-up are considered. The paper is based on primary and secondary sources, and on interviews. The outcome-the transfer of a large proportion of the rented housing to local authorities—was not governmen…
The Housing Challenge in South Africa
This paper considers the housing conditions inherited by the new government in South Africa and the challenge they present. It draws on primary and secondary sources, and on interviews with some of the key actors involved in housing policy. It examines contemporary housing conditions, and the colonial and apartheid legacy which largely created them. It goes on to consider the implications of the struggle under apartheid for improvements in living…
Befriending and community care
BEFRIENDING IS A VALUED form of support for people in receipt of community care services, and offers something which is qualitatively different from the support which paid staff can give. This paper, based on recent research, explores the perspectives of users and reports on some of the problems facing befriending organisations
Rights and Security in Housing
Political Lobbying and the Unitary State
Citizenship in the New Welfare Market
In current debates about citizenship, three approaches to social rights can be detected. Three models of access to social rights mirror these accounts. The institutionalised rights model, based on the post-war welfare state, stresses education and information. The market efficiency model, stressing the need for consumer information, stems from contemporary neo-liberal, consumerist approaches to welfare provision. The radical model challenges the …
Civic Culture, Community and Citizen Participation in Contrasting Neighbourhoods
This paper uses survey and qualitative evidence from four neighbourhoods in two cities to explore the hypothesis that citizen participation in urban governance is fostered by political structures and public policy as well as by a civic culture supportive of citizen involvement. The analysis shows that although the prospects for citizen participation are likely to be least propitious in poor neighbourhoods demonstrating lower educational attainmen…
Sacred cows, rational debates and the politics of the right to buy after devolution
The introduction of policy instruments such as the Right to Buy (RTB) led to prophecies of the demise of the welfare state in Western Europe. Yet it is increasingly apparent that a welfare state will survive, albeit in a restructured form. This paper examines the place of RTB in the restructuring of social rented housing in the UK and accounts for recent changes to it. A new politics of RTB has arisen from the restructuring of social housing. As …
Social Justice and Disabled People
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with …
Social Justice and Public Policy
1 Key texts A basic introduction to political philosophy, covering social justice and related issues well is: Kymlicka, W. (2002), Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction , 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Introduction
In the 1970s and early 1980s, discussions of social justice in the social science literature focused largely on social class. The implicit assumption of much of the literature was that a more just society would be achieved through the reduction of inequalities in the distribution of economic and social resources. Since then, there has been a growing focus on plural aspects of social justice. Many writers now distinguish between distributive, cult…
Scottish Homelessness Policy
The paper is based on published sources and on a series of interviews with members of the Homelessness Task Force, which played a central role in the development of the award-winning legislation. The paper proceeds by considering the links between homelessness, social (injustice and human rights; evaluating Scottish homelessness policy against features that might be expected to characterise policy intended to contribute to social justice; and, fi…
How Would We Know What Works
In 2002 the UK Home Office commissioned a review of research on community involvement in area-based initiatives. This found comparatively few studies that set out to measure the impact rather than the extent and nature of involvement and hence few answers to the question of what works. This article takes that finding as its starting point and sets out to develop a more robust framework for evaluating the impact of community involvement. It notes …
Responsible Participation and Housing
Tensions between individual liberty and collective social justice characterise many advanced liberal societies. These tensions are reflected in the challenges posed for representative democracy both by participatory democratic practices and by the current emphasis on (so-called) responsible participation. Based on the example of ‘community’ housing associations in Scotland, this paper explores these tensions. It is argued that the critique of res…
Sources of city prosperity and cohesion
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Economics (7 works)