J A Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8208-7896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats
This article uses a prosopographical methodology and new dataset of 1,558 CEOs from Britain’s largest public companies between 1900 and 2009 to analyze how the role, social background, and career pathways of corporate leaders changed. We have four main findings. First, the designation of CEO only prevailed in the 1990s. Second, the proportion of socially elite CEOs was highest before 1940, but they were not dominant. Third, most CEOs did not have…
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
Strategic differences: Al Qaeda's Split with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
As part of the next phase of the Global Jihad, al Qaeda has been committed to winning popular support among Muslims. Ayman al-Zawahiri and the al Qaeda inner circle recognise that a global terror movement and civil conflicts in the Middle East, brought about by the Arab revolutions, necessitate different operational methods. As such, they have disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham for their insubordination and unconstrained tactics, a m…
G reat P owers as C lient S tates in a M iddle E ast C old W ar
From Cottage Industry to International Organisation: The Evolution of Salafi-Jihadism and the Emergence of the Al Qaeda Ideology
Al Qaeda after the invasion of Afghanistan can now be understood as not only an international terror organisation but an ideology which inspires groups with similar goals of a supranational caliphate. The Al Qaeda ideology draws from long standing historical Islamic concepts that date to the time of Muhammad. The ideologues of the organisation, most notably Ayman al Zawahiri, have cleverly used these ideas and the works of other Islamists to crea…
Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory
Social security pensionable ages in OECD countries: 1949‐2035
This paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age in social security in 23 OECD countries over the years 1949‐2035. The policies for future years are those in current law, with some not being fully effective until 2035. The paper documents a pattern of decreasing pensionable ages that reversed in the 1990s, with many countries raising pensionable ages since the beginning of that decade, though generally with future effective dates. Pens…
Individual accounts: Lessons from Sweden
Increasing numbers of countries are using mandatory funded individual accounts to provide retirement. Sweden in 2000 instituted a mandatory funded individual account system that differs in a number of ways from earlier such systems. It incorporates features that reflect lessons learned from other countries; in particular, ways to reduce the system's administrative costs
Strategies to Reduce Contribution Evasion in Social Security Financing
The British Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century: From Beginning to End
Stuart Ball, The Conservative Party since 1945 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), 205 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0-7190-4012-4. John Charmley, A History of Conservative Politics, 1900–1996 (London: Macmillan, 1996), 283 pp., £16.99, ISBN 0-333-56293-3. Alan Clark, The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), 493 pp., £20.00, ISBN 0-297-81849-X. N. J. Crowson, Facing Fascism: The Conservative…
Work, Family, State and Market: Income Packaging for Older Households
We use the concept of “income packaging” to explore the economic position of older people historically and comparatively. Income packaging focuses on the evolving economic role of the State in occupational pensions, earnings and assets. By contrast, the life course perspective focuses on the relations across generations. While these approaches differ in emphasis, they also overlap and are complementary. The idea of income packaging was first deve…
Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain. Charles Townshend
Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis
Many countries are moving towards greater reliance on market insti tutions, and as part of this process they are developing and strengthen ing their private pension systems.At the same time, the aging of populations is straining social security systems.As a result of these trends, future retirees will rely increasingly on private pensions to pro vide retirement income.This book identifies important issues involved in developing and managing priva…
A Land Fit for Tories to Live In: The Political Ecology of the British Conservative Party, 1944–94
Although the industrialised West has seen since the 1970s a very marked leaning to the right both in government and in popular politics, the experience of the British Conservative Party has been unique. The party can trace a continuous existence to the reconstruction of the King's government by William Pitt the Younger in 1784, and is probably the oldest political organisation in the world: far older, indeed, than most sovereign states. In two ce…
The Politics of Imperial Defence
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.
Deborah Kuller Shuger. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.Steven W. May. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts.Katherine Duncan-Jones. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.Linda Levy Peck. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner. Shakespeare: Out of Court: Dramatizations of Court Society.Christopher Pye. The Re…
The House of Commons and the Executive in the First World War
Labour and Business in Modern Britain
Union-Nonunion Differences in Pension Fund Investments and Earnings
The authors use IRS data to compare the composition, risk, and rate of return to union pension investments with those of nonunion pension funds. They find almost no differences between single-employer union and single-employer nonunion funds. Collectively bargained, multiemployer funds, however, held less risky portfolios than either union or nonunion single-employer funds. Multi-employer funds averaged a lower risk-adjusted rate of return for 19…
Man and Braverman: British Industrial Relations
State Purchase of the Liquor Trade in the First World War
In 1915 and again in 1917 the British government almost decided to buy out the whole of the licensed liquor trade in the United Kingdom. An examination of the circumstances in which this ambitious proposal was contemplated poses serious questions of interpretation for the historian of the first World War. The episode figures in the historiography of temperance as a missed opportunity to use the power of government to solve a longstanding social p…
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918 Get access J. A. TURNER J. A. TURNER Bedford CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVIII, July 1978, Pages 528–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVIII.528 Published: 01 July 1978
The Formation of Lloyd George's ‘Garden Suburb’: ‘Fabian-like Milnerite Penetration’
A little body of illuminati , whose residence is in the Prime Minister's garden, and their business to cultivate the Prime Minister's mind. These gendemen stand in no sense for a Civil Service cabinet. They are rather of the class of travelling empirics in Empire, who came in widi Lord Milner, whose spiritual home is fixed somewhere between Balliol and Heidelburg. Their function is to emerge from their huts in Downing Street, like the competitors…
The Soviet Dictatorship
Journal Article The Soviet Dictatorship Get access The Soviet Dictatorship. By Herbert McClosky and John Turner. London, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960, xiii+657 pp. Index. 625. Max Beloff Max Beloff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1960, Page 532, https://doi.org/10.2307/2610324 Published: 01 October 1960
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
State Purchase of the Liquor Trade in the First World War
In 1915 and again in 1917 the British government almost decided to buy out the whole of the licensed liquor trade in the United Kingdom. An examination of the circumstances in which this ambitious proposal was contemplated poses serious questions of interpretation for the historian of the first World War. The episode figures in the historiography of temperance as a missed opportunity to use the power of government to solve a longstanding social p…
A Land Fit for Tories to Live In: The Political Ecology of the British Conservative Party, 1944–94
Although the industrialised West has seen since the 1970s a very marked leaning to the right both in government and in popular politics, the experience of the British Conservative Party has been unique. The party can trace a continuous existence to the reconstruction of the King's government by William Pitt the Younger in 1784, and is probably the oldest political organisation in the world: far older, indeed, than most sovereign states. In two ce…
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918 Get access J. A. TURNER J. A. TURNER Bedford CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVIII, July 1978, Pages 528–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVIII.528 Published: 01 July 1978
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats
This article uses a prosopographical methodology and new dataset of 1,558 CEOs from Britain’s largest public companies between 1900 and 2009 to analyze how the role, social background, and career pathways of corporate leaders changed. We have four main findings. First, the designation of CEO only prevailed in the 1990s. Second, the proportion of socially elite CEOs was highest before 1940, but they were not dominant. Third, most CEOs did not have…
Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory
Social security pensionable ages in OECD countries: 1949‐2035
This paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age in social security in 23 OECD countries over the years 1949‐2035. The policies for future years are those in current law, with some not being fully effective until 2035. The paper documents a pattern of decreasing pensionable ages that reversed in the 1990s, with many countries raising pensionable ages since the beginning of that decade, though generally with future effective dates. Pens…
Strategies to Reduce Contribution Evasion in Social Security Financing
Strategic differences: Al Qaeda's Split with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
As part of the next phase of the Global Jihad, al Qaeda has been committed to winning popular support among Muslims. Ayman al-Zawahiri and the al Qaeda inner circle recognise that a global terror movement and civil conflicts in the Middle East, brought about by the Arab revolutions, necessitate different operational methods. As such, they have disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham for their insubordination and unconstrained tactics, a m…
G reat P owers as C lient S tates in a M iddle E ast C old W ar
The Formation of Lloyd George's ‘Garden Suburb’: ‘Fabian-like Milnerite Penetration’
A little body of illuminati , whose residence is in the Prime Minister's garden, and their business to cultivate the Prime Minister's mind. These gendemen stand in no sense for a Civil Service cabinet. They are rather of the class of travelling empirics in Empire, who came in widi Lord Milner, whose spiritual home is fixed somewhere between Balliol and Heidelburg. Their function is to emerge from their huts in Downing Street, like the competitors…
From Cottage Industry to International Organisation: The Evolution of Salafi-Jihadism and the Emergence of the Al Qaeda Ideology
Al Qaeda after the invasion of Afghanistan can now be understood as not only an international terror organisation but an ideology which inspires groups with similar goals of a supranational caliphate. The Al Qaeda ideology draws from long standing historical Islamic concepts that date to the time of Muhammad. The ideologues of the organisation, most notably Ayman al Zawahiri, have cleverly used these ideas and the works of other Islamists to crea…
Man and Braverman: British Industrial Relations
The Soviet Dictatorship
Journal Article The Soviet Dictatorship Get access The Soviet Dictatorship. By Herbert McClosky and John Turner. London, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960, xiii+657 pp. Index. 625. Max Beloff Max Beloff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1960, Page 532, https://doi.org/10.2307/2610324 Published: 01 October 1960
The Formation of Lloyd George's ‘Garden Suburb’: ‘Fabian-like Milnerite Penetration’
A little body of illuminati , whose residence is in the Prime Minister's garden, and their business to cultivate the Prime Minister's mind. These gendemen stand in no sense for a Civil Service cabinet. They are rather of the class of travelling empirics in Empire, who came in widi Lord Milner, whose spiritual home is fixed somewhere between Balliol and Heidelburg. Their function is to emerge from their huts in Downing Street, like the competitors…
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918
The British Commonwealth Union and the general election of 1918 Get access J. A. TURNER J. A. TURNER Bedford CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVIII, July 1978, Pages 528–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVIII.528 Published: 01 July 1978
State Purchase of the Liquor Trade in the First World War
In 1915 and again in 1917 the British government almost decided to buy out the whole of the licensed liquor trade in the United Kingdom. An examination of the circumstances in which this ambitious proposal was contemplated poses serious questions of interpretation for the historian of the first World War. The episode figures in the historiography of temperance as a missed opportunity to use the power of government to solve a longstanding social p…
Man and Braverman: British Industrial Relations
Union-Nonunion Differences in Pension Fund Investments and Earnings
The authors use IRS data to compare the composition, risk, and rate of return to union pension investments with those of nonunion pension funds. They find almost no differences between single-employer union and single-employer nonunion funds. Collectively bargained, multiemployer funds, however, held less risky portfolios than either union or nonunion single-employer funds. Multi-employer funds averaged a lower risk-adjusted rate of return for 19…
The House of Commons and the Executive in the First World War
Labour and Business in Modern Britain
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.
Deborah Kuller Shuger. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.Steven W. May. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts.Katherine Duncan-Jones. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.Linda Levy Peck. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner. Shakespeare: Out of Court: Dramatizations of Court Society.Christopher Pye. The Re…
The Politics of Imperial Defence
A Land Fit for Tories to Live In: The Political Ecology of the British Conservative Party, 1944–94
Although the industrialised West has seen since the 1970s a very marked leaning to the right both in government and in popular politics, the experience of the British Conservative Party has been unique. The party can trace a continuous existence to the reconstruction of the King's government by William Pitt the Younger in 1784, and is probably the oldest political organisation in the world: far older, indeed, than most sovereign states. In two ce…
Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain. Charles Townshend
Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis
Many countries are moving towards greater reliance on market insti tutions, and as part of this process they are developing and strengthen ing their private pension systems.At the same time, the aging of populations is straining social security systems.As a result of these trends, future retirees will rely increasingly on private pensions to pro vide retirement income.This book identifies important issues involved in developing and managing priva…
The British Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century: From Beginning to End
Stuart Ball, The Conservative Party since 1945 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), 205 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0-7190-4012-4. John Charmley, A History of Conservative Politics, 1900–1996 (London: Macmillan, 1996), 283 pp., £16.99, ISBN 0-333-56293-3. Alan Clark, The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), 493 pp., £20.00, ISBN 0-297-81849-X. N. J. Crowson, Facing Fascism: The Conservative…
Work, Family, State and Market: Income Packaging for Older Households
We use the concept of “income packaging” to explore the economic position of older people historically and comparatively. Income packaging focuses on the evolving economic role of the State in occupational pensions, earnings and assets. By contrast, the life course perspective focuses on the relations across generations. While these approaches differ in emphasis, they also overlap and are complementary. The idea of income packaging was first deve…
Strategies to Reduce Contribution Evasion in Social Security Financing
Individual accounts: Lessons from Sweden
Increasing numbers of countries are using mandatory funded individual accounts to provide retirement. Sweden in 2000 instituted a mandatory funded individual account system that differs in a number of ways from earlier such systems. It incorporates features that reflect lessons learned from other countries; in particular, ways to reduce the system's administrative costs
Social security pensionable ages in OECD countries: 1949‐2035
This paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age in social security in 23 OECD countries over the years 1949‐2035. The policies for future years are those in current law, with some not being fully effective until 2035. The paper documents a pattern of decreasing pensionable ages that reversed in the 1990s, with many countries raising pensionable ages since the beginning of that decade, though generally with future effective dates. Pens…
Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory
From Cottage Industry to International Organisation: The Evolution of Salafi-Jihadism and the Emergence of the Al Qaeda Ideology
Al Qaeda after the invasion of Afghanistan can now be understood as not only an international terror organisation but an ideology which inspires groups with similar goals of a supranational caliphate. The Al Qaeda ideology draws from long standing historical Islamic concepts that date to the time of Muhammad. The ideologues of the organisation, most notably Ayman al Zawahiri, have cleverly used these ideas and the works of other Islamists to crea…
G reat P owers as C lient S tates in a M iddle E ast C old W ar
Strategic differences: Al Qaeda's Split with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
As part of the next phase of the Global Jihad, al Qaeda has been committed to winning popular support among Muslims. Ayman al-Zawahiri and the al Qaeda inner circle recognise that a global terror movement and civil conflicts in the Middle East, brought about by the Arab revolutions, necessitate different operational methods. As such, they have disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham for their insubordination and unconstrained tactics, a m…
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand
Innovation platforms (IPs) that support agricultural innovation to enable transition processes towards more sustainable agriculture provide a space where conflicts of interest among actors in the existing agricultural system (the so called incumbent regime) may play out. Sometimes these conflicts over how actors will benefit from an action are not revealed until actors are brought together. However, a barrier to change occurs when IP actors use t…
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats
This article uses a prosopographical methodology and new dataset of 1,558 CEOs from Britain’s largest public companies between 1900 and 2009 to analyze how the role, social background, and career pathways of corporate leaders changed. We have four main findings. First, the designation of CEO only prevailed in the 1990s. Second, the proportion of socially elite CEOs was highest before 1940, but they were not dominant. Third, most CEOs did not have…
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