Stewart Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5913298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Explaining One Nation Labour
Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden
In this third of three chapters on the distinctive policy dynamics of particular areas of social provision, Wood looks at labour market regimes in Germany, Britain, and Sweden. The theoretical starting point of the chapter is an examination of path dependence, perhaps the most popular contemporary approach to explaining the persistence of institutions and policies over time. In principle, this offers an enticing explanation of the resilience of n…
New Labour’s Economic Policy
During the 1990s, the authority of social democratic groupings reincarnated across Western Europe. Despite the constructive implications of this ‘rebirth’, there were notable changes in ideologies and policymaking processes involved in various conventional aspects of social democracy. Because of this, government officials along with professionals and other concerned citizens form clusters assessed the significance and applicability of the proposi…
Business, Government, and Patterns of Labor Market Policy in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany
Explores the connection between the political economy and the public policies that governments produce, using the cases of labour market policy in the 1980s in West Germany and the UK. Governments will favour policies that reinforce the comparative institutional advantage of their economic institutions, because policy options are constrained by the different organizational capacities of employers in CMEs and LMEs. It examines the constitutional a…
Economic Policy under New Labour
Chapter 9
Building a Governance Structure for Training?
The Political Economy of Neoliberalism
If ever a scholarly claim for Anglo-American exceptionalism received empirical support, it was during the ascendant New Right administrations of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. During the 1980s, these governments embarked on a systematic and comprehensive project of fiscal retrenchment, financial and labor market deregulation, and erosion of the Keynesian assumptions that had underpinned postwar economic and social policy. The ideological ba…
Special Issues in Reforming Middle Level Schools
In this article, some of the particular issues relevant to changing middle level schools were examined. Recent research has increasingly examined the educational needs of early adolescent students, and school reforms frequently have been called for Often, these calls for reform have not been accompanied by careful consideration of the many factors, some particular to middle level schools, that can inhibit meaningful, lasting change. Described is …
Recent Work in Game Theory and Coalition Theory
Economic Policy under New Labour
Explaining One Nation Labour
Special Issues in Reforming Middle Level Schools
In this article, some of the particular issues relevant to changing middle level schools were examined. Recent research has increasingly examined the educational needs of early adolescent students, and school reforms frequently have been called for Often, these calls for reform have not been accompanied by careful consideration of the many factors, some particular to middle level schools, that can inhibit meaningful, lasting change. Described is …
Special Issues in Reforming Middle Level Schools
In this article, some of the particular issues relevant to changing middle level schools were examined. Recent research has increasingly examined the educational needs of early adolescent students, and school reforms frequently have been called for Often, these calls for reform have not been accompanied by careful consideration of the many factors, some particular to middle level schools, that can inhibit meaningful, lasting change. Described is …
Recent Work in Game Theory and Coalition Theory
Chapter 9
Building a Governance Structure for Training?
The Political Economy of Neoliberalism
If ever a scholarly claim for Anglo-American exceptionalism received empirical support, it was during the ascendant New Right administrations of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. During the 1980s, these governments embarked on a systematic and comprehensive project of fiscal retrenchment, financial and labor market deregulation, and erosion of the Keynesian assumptions that had underpinned postwar economic and social policy. The ideological ba…
Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden
In this third of three chapters on the distinctive policy dynamics of particular areas of social provision, Wood looks at labour market regimes in Germany, Britain, and Sweden. The theoretical starting point of the chapter is an examination of path dependence, perhaps the most popular contemporary approach to explaining the persistence of institutions and policies over time. In principle, this offers an enticing explanation of the resilience of n…
New Labour’s Economic Policy
During the 1990s, the authority of social democratic groupings reincarnated across Western Europe. Despite the constructive implications of this ‘rebirth’, there were notable changes in ideologies and policymaking processes involved in various conventional aspects of social democracy. Because of this, government officials along with professionals and other concerned citizens form clusters assessed the significance and applicability of the proposi…
Business, Government, and Patterns of Labor Market Policy in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany
Explores the connection between the political economy and the public policies that governments produce, using the cases of labour market policy in the 1980s in West Germany and the UK. Governments will favour policies that reinforce the comparative institutional advantage of their economic institutions, because policy options are constrained by the different organizational capacities of employers in CMEs and LMEs. It examines the constitutional a…
Economic Policy under New Labour
Explaining One Nation Labour
Political science (8 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Government (linguistics) (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)