Roger J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identifying Key Challenges Facing Healthcare Systems In Africa And Potential Solutions
INTRODUCTION: Healthcare systems in Africa suffer from neglect and underfunding, leading to severe challenges across the six World Health Organization (WHO) pillars of healthcare delivery. We conducted this study to identify the principal challenges in the health sector in Africa and their solutions for evidence-based decisions, policy development and program prioritization. METHODS: The study was conducted as part of a recent African Epidemiolog…
Mick Moran 1946–2018: Government & Opposition editorial board member
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The elusive transformation: Science, technology, and the evolution of international politics
Journal Article The elusive transformation: science, technology, and the evolution of international politics Get access The elusive transformation: science, technology, and the evolution of international politics. By Eugene B. Skolnikoff. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for Council on Foreign Relations, New York. 1993. 322pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 691 08631 1. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Reading Search for other works b…
Technical Change: Political Options and Imperatives
By The Standards of The Solar System, Where are found the only comparable bodies of whose existence we have certain knowledge, the earth is not a large planet. For most of recorded history, on the other hand, it has certainly seemed so to its inhabitants, and only in recent decades has a different perception come to prevail, as instanced, for example, by the much-remarked Ward-Dubos book of 1972, Only One Earth — The Care and Maintenance of a Sma…
Choosing big technologies: The core issues
Introduction to the series: Science and Politics
TECHNOLOGY IS ALMOST AS OLD AS MANKIND BUT THE realisation that useful discoveries could be made systematically came only much more recently. This realisation constitutes one of history's most significant bench-marks, it may even be the most significant one. The organization on a massive scale of research and development was an inevitable result, the fruits of scientific and technological development are now ubiquitous, and the economic, social a…
Armed services and society
Journal Article Armed services and society Get access Armed services and society. By Martin Edmonds. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1988. 226pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7185 1266 9. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 327–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622097 Published: 01 April 1989
The EC's Technology Policy as an Engine for Integration
EUROPESSIMISM’, SAID THE ECONOMIST IN 1984, ‘IS A FASHION that comes and goes’. The newspaper added that ‘The idea of a technology gap, with an uncompetitive Europe on the wrong side of it, deserves a very cold eye’. But it still covered its bets with the view that, despite reservations, ‘few doubt that Europe is in real trouble’. Europe experienced a previous peak of alarm about a ‘technology gap’ in the late 1960s. Concern then focused only on …
Political Decisions Where the Technical Component is Substantial
IT IS THE BURDEN OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE AND technology to produce change at a rate, and of a scale and character, which is genuinely without precedent. Science and technology have between them made the world a smaller and inescapably interdependent place, and as catalysts and instruments of change they are far from finished yet. In fact, the introduction into industrial societies of systematic research, development and innovation, as contrasted …
Uk Science and Technology: Policy, Controversy and Advice
British space policy and international collaboration
Journal Article British space policy and international collaboration Get access British space policy and international collaboration. By James Eberleand Helen Wallace. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1987. 72pp. (Chatham House Papers 42.) Pb. £6.95. ISBN 0 7102 1365 4. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Intern…
South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences
Journal Article South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences Get access South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences. Edited by A. Hamende, M. Hassan and K. K. Phua. Singapore: World Scientific. 1986. (Distrib. in UK by Wiley, Chichester.) 507pp. £31.80. ISBN 997150106 6. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, …
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan's America
WHILE STATES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN COMPETITION, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second world War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are unprecedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major fa…
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan’s America
While States Have Always Been in Competition, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second World War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are un-precedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major f…
Public Purchasing: An Administrative Cinderella
The potential value of enlightened public sector purchasing policies (as distinct from crude‘Buy‐British policies) to stimulate industrial efficiency and technological innovation, although long recognized as of fundamental importance to the British economy, has been largely disregarded by those seeking policies for industrial revitalization. This article reviews the present government's renewed commitment to enlightened public purchasing, outlini…
Nuclear power: Futures, costs and benefits
Journal Article Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits Get access Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits. By Nigel Evans and Chris Hope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 171 pp. Index. £15.00; $29.95. ISBN 0 521 26191 0. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 4, October 1985, Page 685, https://doi.o…
British Technology Policy
FRANCIS BACON OBSERVED THAT IN THE DECLINING AGE OF A state, mechanical arts and merchandise flourish. Unfortunately, Britain's case is now almost the obverse of this. The underlying causes of Britain's present circumstances are evidently complex but a fruitful place at which to begin is with the country's technology policy and its associated research and development orientation.It is especially alarming politically that the long run decline in m…
Nuclear power struggles: Industrial competition and proliferation control
Journal Article Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control Get access Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control. By William Walkerand Måns Lönnroth. London: Allen & Unwin. 1983. 204 pp. Index. £13.95. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983…
British Scientists and the Bomb: The Decisions of 1980
THE BRITISH CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT ELECTED IN MAY 1979 had, by August 1980, taken three decisions in respect of nuclear weapons and civil defence which in portent had had few peacetime parallels. These decisions naturally had a technical as well as a political dimension yet, until at least the spring of 1981, the involvement of the British scientific community in public discussion of the underlying issues remained negligible. No similar decision…
Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations
Journal Article Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations Get access Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations. By Ernst B. Haas, Mary Pat Williams and Don Babai. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1978. 368 pp.£12.25. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis and Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities
Journal Article The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis and Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities Get access The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis. By Barry Commoner. London: Cape. 1976. 314 pp. £5.50.Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities. By John Hagel. New York: Praeger. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Martin Robertson, London.) 185 pp. £12.25. $17.50. Roger Williams Roger Willi…
Government Response to Man‐made Hazards
THE BUSINESS OF LIVING IS INESCAPABLY HAZARDOUS, EVEN IN THE advanced industrial societies, for all that life within them has now become less nasty, brutish and short. In fact, the very process of technological innovation which has made possible the unprecedented affluence of these societies has also led to quite new dangers. In consequence, securing a reasonable balance between the advantages and disadvantages of innovation has now become an imp…
International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry
Journal Article International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry Get access International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry. Edited by Mason Willrich. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press under the auspices of the American Society of International Law. 1973. 307 pp. £9.75. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue…
Technical decisions and public accountability
The paper focuses on Canadian decisions involving technical issues. The inherent difficulties associated with the application of technical advice and the need to secure public accountability for related government action are both discussed. It is suggested specifically that although there has been a significant governmental response to the problem of man‐made hazards, much remains to be achieved. The general difficulties with the concepts of ‘pub…
Hopeful travellers: A study of Asian graduates working in Britain
Uk Science and Technology: Policy, Controversy and Advice
Armed services and society
Journal Article Armed services and society Get access Armed services and society. By Martin Edmonds. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1988. 226pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7185 1266 9. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 327–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622097 Published: 01 April 1989
Technical Change: Political Options and Imperatives
By The Standards of The Solar System, Where are found the only comparable bodies of whose existence we have certain knowledge, the earth is not a large planet. For most of recorded history, on the other hand, it has certainly seemed so to its inhabitants, and only in recent decades has a different perception come to prevail, as instanced, for example, by the much-remarked Ward-Dubos book of 1972, Only One Earth — The Care and Maintenance of a Sma…
The EC's Technology Policy as an Engine for Integration
EUROPESSIMISM’, SAID THE ECONOMIST IN 1984, ‘IS A FASHION that comes and goes’. The newspaper added that ‘The idea of a technology gap, with an uncompetitive Europe on the wrong side of it, deserves a very cold eye’. But it still covered its bets with the view that, despite reservations, ‘few doubt that Europe is in real trouble’. Europe experienced a previous peak of alarm about a ‘technology gap’ in the late 1960s. Concern then focused only on …
Public Purchasing: An Administrative Cinderella
The potential value of enlightened public sector purchasing policies (as distinct from crude‘Buy‐British policies) to stimulate industrial efficiency and technological innovation, although long recognized as of fundamental importance to the British economy, has been largely disregarded by those seeking policies for industrial revitalization. This article reviews the present government's renewed commitment to enlightened public purchasing, outlini…
Mick Moran 1946–2018: Government & Opposition editorial board member
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political Decisions Where the Technical Component is Substantial
IT IS THE BURDEN OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE AND technology to produce change at a rate, and of a scale and character, which is genuinely without precedent. Science and technology have between them made the world a smaller and inescapably interdependent place, and as catalysts and instruments of change they are far from finished yet. In fact, the introduction into industrial societies of systematic research, development and innovation, as contrasted …
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan's America
WHILE STATES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN COMPETITION, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second world War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are unprecedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major fa…
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan’s America
While States Have Always Been in Competition, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second World War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are un-precedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major f…
Nuclear power: Futures, costs and benefits
Journal Article Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits Get access Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits. By Nigel Evans and Chris Hope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 171 pp. Index. £15.00; $29.95. ISBN 0 521 26191 0. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 4, October 1985, Page 685, https://doi.o…
Nuclear power struggles: Industrial competition and proliferation control
Journal Article Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control Get access Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control. By William Walkerand Måns Lönnroth. London: Allen & Unwin. 1983. 204 pp. Index. £13.95. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983…
Government Response to Man‐made Hazards
THE BUSINESS OF LIVING IS INESCAPABLY HAZARDOUS, EVEN IN THE advanced industrial societies, for all that life within them has now become less nasty, brutish and short. In fact, the very process of technological innovation which has made possible the unprecedented affluence of these societies has also led to quite new dangers. In consequence, securing a reasonable balance between the advantages and disadvantages of innovation has now become an imp…
The Select Committee on Science and Technology: The First Round
The Etiology of Alcoholism: A Working Hypothesis Involving the Interplay of Hereditary and Environmental Factors
The Human Frontier
Dietary Deficiencies in Animals in Relation to Voluntary Alcohol and Sugar Consumption
Metabolic Characteristics of Alcoholics. I. Response to Glucose Stress
Biochemical Individuality and Cellular Nutrition: Prime Factors in Alcoholism
Who is Qualified to Treat the Alcoholic? Comment on the Krystal—Moore Discussion
The Select Committee on Science and Technology: The First Round
Global Politics of Nuclear Energy and Civil Nuclear Power and International Security
Journal Article Global Politics of Nuclear Energy and Civil Nuclear Power and International Security Global Politics of Nuclear Energy. By Mason WillrichNew York, Washington: Praeger; London: Pall Mall. 1971. 204 pp. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Public Affairs.) £6.25.Civil Nuclear Power and International Security. Ed. by Mason WillrichNew York, Washington: Praeger; London: Pall Mall. 1971. Published in cooperation with …
Hopeful travellers: A study of Asian graduates working in Britain
International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry
Journal Article International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry Get access International Safeguards and Nuclear Industry. Edited by Mason Willrich. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press under the auspices of the American Society of International Law. 1973. 307 pp. £9.75. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue…
Technical decisions and public accountability
The paper focuses on Canadian decisions involving technical issues. The inherent difficulties associated with the application of technical advice and the need to secure public accountability for related government action are both discussed. It is suggested specifically that although there has been a significant governmental response to the problem of man‐made hazards, much remains to be achieved. The general difficulties with the concepts of ‘pub…
The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis and Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities
Journal Article The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis and Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities Get access The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis. By Barry Commoner. London: Cape. 1976. 314 pp. £5.50.Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities. By John Hagel. New York: Praeger. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Martin Robertson, London.) 185 pp. £12.25. $17.50. Roger Williams Roger Willi…
Government Response to Man‐made Hazards
THE BUSINESS OF LIVING IS INESCAPABLY HAZARDOUS, EVEN IN THE advanced industrial societies, for all that life within them has now become less nasty, brutish and short. In fact, the very process of technological innovation which has made possible the unprecedented affluence of these societies has also led to quite new dangers. In consequence, securing a reasonable balance between the advantages and disadvantages of innovation has now become an imp…
Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations
Journal Article Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations Get access Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations. By Ernst B. Haas, Mary Pat Williams and Don Babai. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1978. 368 pp.£12.25. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
British Scientists and the Bomb: The Decisions of 1980
THE BRITISH CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT ELECTED IN MAY 1979 had, by August 1980, taken three decisions in respect of nuclear weapons and civil defence which in portent had had few peacetime parallels. These decisions naturally had a technical as well as a political dimension yet, until at least the spring of 1981, the involvement of the British scientific community in public discussion of the underlying issues remained negligible. No similar decision…
Nuclear power struggles: Industrial competition and proliferation control
Journal Article Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control Get access Nuclear power struggles: industrial competition and proliferation control. By William Walkerand Måns Lönnroth. London: Allen & Unwin. 1983. 204 pp. Index. £13.95. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983…
British Technology Policy
FRANCIS BACON OBSERVED THAT IN THE DECLINING AGE OF A state, mechanical arts and merchandise flourish. Unfortunately, Britain's case is now almost the obverse of this. The underlying causes of Britain's present circumstances are evidently complex but a fruitful place at which to begin is with the country's technology policy and its associated research and development orientation.It is especially alarming politically that the long run decline in m…
Public Purchasing: An Administrative Cinderella
The potential value of enlightened public sector purchasing policies (as distinct from crude‘Buy‐British policies) to stimulate industrial efficiency and technological innovation, although long recognized as of fundamental importance to the British economy, has been largely disregarded by those seeking policies for industrial revitalization. This article reviews the present government's renewed commitment to enlightened public purchasing, outlini…
Nuclear power: Futures, costs and benefits
Journal Article Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits Get access Nuclear power: futures, costs and benefits. By Nigel Evans and Chris Hope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 171 pp. Index. £15.00; $29.95. ISBN 0 521 26191 0. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 4, October 1985, Page 685, https://doi.o…
South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences
Journal Article South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences Get access South-South and South-North cooperation in sciences. Edited by A. Hamende, M. Hassan and K. K. Phua. Singapore: World Scientific. 1986. (Distrib. in UK by Wiley, Chichester.) 507pp. £31.80. ISBN 997150106 6. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, …
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan's America
WHILE STATES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN COMPETITION, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second world War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are unprecedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major fa…
The Scientific Ethos of Reagan’s America
While States Have Always Been in Competition, modern states are in competition in an historically unique way. Only since the Second World War has it become generally appreciated that the mastery of technical change is vital to economic success, to such military security as is available, and, in short, to political achievement in a world in which expectations are un-precedentedly high. Since the political system of a state is inescapably a major f…
Uk Science and Technology: Policy, Controversy and Advice
British space policy and international collaboration
Journal Article British space policy and international collaboration Get access British space policy and international collaboration. By James Eberleand Helen Wallace. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1987. 72pp. (Chatham House Papers 42.) Pb. £6.95. ISBN 0 7102 1365 4. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Intern…
Armed services and society
Journal Article Armed services and society Get access Armed services and society. By Martin Edmonds. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1988. 226pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7185 1266 9. Roger Williams Roger Williams 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 327–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622097 Published: 01 April 1989
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