D Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7992-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Net That Catches the Most Fish
Between 1898 and 1923, a series of disputes erupted among fishing communities in the British Gold Coast Colony (modern-day Ghana) following the introduction of larger and more productive sea fishing nets. All along the coast, fishers debated the environmental and economic consequences of adopting the nets, which debates shifted across African and colonial forums. Focusing on these disputes, this article interrogates the ways in which sites of fis…
Fishing (in) the past to inform the future
Without historical interrogation of past and present fisheries management, governors and their sponsors often fall into the trap of replicating and reproducing failed approaches. Even when aimed at community empowerment, a lack of historical awareness can lead to underappreciation of the institutional, economic, and socio-ecological contexts that resource users navigate. In this article, we explore the history of fisheries management in Lake Mala…
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries
This piece explores the parallel development of two fisheries management regimes in mid-twentieth-century Lake Malawi: one imposed by the British colonial government over the lake and the other by Senior Chief Makanjira focused on Mbenji Island. The parallel development of these regimes provides opportunity for close analysis of how fisheries management centred on different knowledge and practices led to distinctive legacies of governance legitim…
Mackillop, Human Capital and Empire
Te Āheinga pū reretahi
Wairoro is a te reo Māori term for the brain, and it is a concept grounded in Māori origins (Hīroa, n.d.). This paper is based on the lead author’s master’s research, in which he created Te Āheinga Pū Reretahi—a model developed to provide a structural and functional foundation of understanding the wairoro. Māori life expectancy is increasing (Ministry of Health, 2019), and Māori are now also experiencing the complications of wairoro illnesses tha…
Eleanor Hubbard. Englishmen at Sea
Journal Article Eleanor Hubbard. Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570–1630. Get access Eleanor Hubbard. Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570–1630. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xi, 349. Cloth $38.00. David Wilson David Wilson University of Strathclyde, Scotland Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-901X Search for other works by this au…
The impact of financial incentives on HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women in Eswatini
Introduction Incentives conditional on school attendance or on remaining free of sexually transmitted infections have produced mixed results in reducing HIV incidence. Methods HIV-negative adolescent girls and young women aged 15–22%–50% of whom were out of school—were recruited from 293 clusters in Eswatini from urban (30%) and rural areas (70%). Financial incentives conditional on education attendance were randomly allocated at the cluster leve…
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation
INTRODUCTION: With limited resources, attaining maximal average health service coverage can be at odds with maximising equity which attempts to promote greater reach among underserved populations. In this study, we examined the trade-offs in immunisation coverage levels and equity for children under 5 years of age in Pakistan across various subpopulations who can be targeted with different combinations of immunisation service modalities. METHODS:…
Orientaciones para la comunidad científica sobre el diseño, implementación y evaluación de intervenciones escolares sobre promoción de comportamientos saludables (Guidelines for the scientific communi…
Despite the benefits of adopting a healthy lifestyle, a large percentage of young people do not meet the established recommendations for these health-related behaviors. Developing multiple health behavior interventions are, therefore, required. Although school has been considered an ideal setting to promote healthy lifestyles in children and adolescents, most school-based interventions reported small or non-significant effects, diminishing over t…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 47, Issue 4
Crime, Victims and Policy
This book provides critically examines how recent international developments in victims theory and policy are experienced within specific local contexts. The chapters approach key criminological issue
Penal Policy File No. 131
Penal Policy File No. 127
Penal Policy File No. 125
Balancing revisability and robustness? A new institutionalist perspective on local government modernization
This article focuses upon one particular aspect of new institutionalist thinking – that which analyses the scope for, and constraints upon, deliberate interventions in institutional change. New institutionalist insights are used to illuminate the challenges faced by the British Labour government in its programme for modernizing local government. The focus is upon two core concepts: robustness and revisability – a pairing which highlights the pote…
Rethinking local political leadership
The changing nature of local political leadership in Britain over the past 25 years has received scant attention from political scientists. This article argues that changes in the roles and functions of local authorities have had a marked impact on the nature of local political leadership. Three phases (operational, transitional and collaborative) are identified and leadership roles are related to changes in the political context of local governm…
Introduction to forum on Byron Miller's book, Geography and Social Movements
Individual Differences in Machiavellianism as a Mix of Cooperative and Exploitative Strategies
Should we be frightened of bracken? A review of the evidence
OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk to human health of the plant bracken (Pteridium sp). DESIGN: An evaluation of studies of human and animal populations exposed to bracken, together with a review of expert reports and advice to the public. MAIN RESULTS: Bracken induced disease has been demonstrated in animals in both laboratory and field studies. Depending on the species, diseases in animals associated with the plant have included; cancers of the alim…
The Local Government Commission
This article shows how a complex configuration of interests has shaped the work of the Local Government Commission for England ( lgc ). The article focuses upon the consultative processes associated with the work of the commission in Leicestershire and makes a dual contribution to our understanding of the emerging structure of English non‐metropolitan local government. First, it provides a detailed insight into the consultative exercises carried …
Differences in self reported health status between ever-smokers and never-smokers
Book notes
The Politics of Decentralization: Revitalising Local Democracy by Danny Burns, Robin Hambleton and Paul Hoggett. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp.283; bibliograpy; index. £35 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 52163 3 and 52164 1 Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain by David Denver. Second Edition. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. Pp.179; bibliography; index. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7450 1602 2 Democracy in Z…
Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit
1994). Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit’. Local Government Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-201
Turning a Drama into a Crisis
Predictions about the end of local government are not new. In 1966 William Robson wrote Local Government in Crisis which pointed to the possible demise of elected local government- and this was an update of texts written in 1947 and 1926! Writing in 1985 in a similar vein George Jones and John Stewart observed
HIV/Aids/STD in Africa
The 8th International AIDS Conference/3rd World STD Congress underscored the need to control sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as a means of preventing AIDS. Over the course of the AIDS pandemic severely affected countries have gained much insight into how to prevent HIV transmission. This knowledge however comes too late for many countries to usefully employ. Other countries still have time to take concerted action against the spread of HIV. …
Balancing revisability and robustness? A new institutionalist perspective on local government modernization
This article focuses upon one particular aspect of new institutionalist thinking – that which analyses the scope for, and constraints upon, deliberate interventions in institutional change. New institutionalist insights are used to illuminate the challenges faced by the British Labour government in its programme for modernizing local government. The focus is upon two core concepts: robustness and revisability – a pairing which highlights the pote…
Rethinking local political leadership
The changing nature of local political leadership in Britain over the past 25 years has received scant attention from political scientists. This article argues that changes in the roles and functions of local authorities have had a marked impact on the nature of local political leadership. Three phases (operational, transitional and collaborative) are identified and leadership roles are related to changes in the political context of local governm…
Intra‐organizational Politics in Local Authorities
Much of the recent literature on local government has emphasized the impact of non‐local factors on local authority decision‐making. This article argues that the administrative processes, power structures and conflicts of interest inside local authorities can often affect policy processes by mediating external influences and providing an internal dynamic of their own. We suggest that most of the current literature concentrates too narrowly on off…
Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit
1994). Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit’. Local Government Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-201
Constituency Party Autonomy and Central Control
The Local Government Commission
This article shows how a complex configuration of interests has shaped the work of the Local Government Commission for England ( lgc ). The article focuses upon the consultative processes associated with the work of the commission in Leicestershire and makes a dual contribution to our understanding of the emerging structure of English non‐metropolitan local government. First, it provides a detailed insight into the consultative exercises carried …
The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union
Party Bureaucracy in Britain
In recent years the discipline of political science has focused much of its attention on political parties. In 1967 Professor L. D. Epstein noted ‘Writing about Political Parties in Western democracies is not a novel enterprise. It is several decades since political scientists, once preoccupied with constitutional forms, ceased to neglect parties’. In Britain, however, there remains much uncharted territory which requires detailed exploration by …
Party Bureaucracy in Britain
In recent years the discipline of political science has focused much of its attention on political parties. In 1967 Professor L. D. Epstein noted ‘Writing about Political Parties in Western democracies is not a novel enterprise. It is several decades since political scientists, once preoccupied with constitutional forms, ceased to neglect parties’. In Britain, however, there remains much uncharted territory which requires detailed exploration by …
Constituency Party Autonomy and Central Control
The Phenomenon of the Great Fear
Georges Lefebvre wrote his historical study of the Great Fear during the French Revolution in 1932, and its publication in English is belated but welcome. Its subject was a problem which Lefebvre felt had never been explained; yet he regarded it as one of ‘the most important episodes
Conservative City Machines
Local Conservative associations have traditionally run their affairs independently and have successfully resisted interference from Central Office. Far from constituting a ‘centralized machine’ (as authors such as McKenzie, Beer and Crossman have maintained) the main feature of Conservative organization has been its decentralized, voluntary character. Nowhere has resistance to control by the party headquarters been more determined than in the maj…
French Renaissance Scientific Poetry
Local Government Studies
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES: THEMES ANCIENT AND MODERN Get access David J. Wilson David J. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXX, Issue 3, Summer 1977, Pages 346–350, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054388 Published: 01 July 1977
Continuity and Change in Studying Local Politics
Journal Article CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN STUDYING LOCAL POLITICS Get access David J. Wilson David J. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 112–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051765 Published: 01 January 1979
British Public Administration
British Public Administration: A Variety of Riches? Get access David J. Wilson David J. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 240–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/33.2.240 Published: 01 April 1980
Monitoring Sub-National Government
Journal Article MONITORING SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Get access David J. Wilson David J. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 125–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051870 Published: 01 January 1983
The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union
Intra‐organizational Politics in Local Authorities
Much of the recent literature on local government has emphasized the impact of non‐local factors on local authority decision‐making. This article argues that the administrative processes, power structures and conflicts of interest inside local authorities can often affect policy processes by mediating external influences and providing an internal dynamic of their own. We suggest that most of the current literature concentrates too narrowly on off…
African contributions on Aids/HIV
Sex worker, client sex behaviour and condom use in Harare, Zimbabwe
One-hundred sex workers and 100 clients were interviewed at a bar/disco complex in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1989. Sociodemographic characteristics of sex workers and clients were examined. Almost a third of sex workers and nearly 90% of clients had engaged in commercial sex over 5 or more years. Sex workers reported that they worked an average of 4.6 nights a week, averaged 2.2 clients a night and charged a mean of Z$8.7 per session and Z$19.8 per nig…
Vision and naïveté in Scève's and du Bartas' accounts of creation
HIV/Aids in Africa
Exhibition catalogue created for the 'Print Matters', a group of three exhibitions on artists' publications which was held at the University of Southampton from 24 January to 26th March 2011
Aids in Africa
Works on epidemiological, and social and behavioral science aspects of AIDS prevention and support in Africa are reviewed from the 7th Conference on AIDS. Participants were especially concerned with why AIDS spreads at disparate rates in different countries and regions of the world. Research on the casual factors of the spread of HIV generally focused upon patterns of sex behavior, the presence of other STDs, and the effect of circumcision. The r…
HIV/Aids/STD in Africa
The 8th International AIDS Conference/3rd World STD Congress underscored the need to control sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as a means of preventing AIDS. Over the course of the AIDS pandemic severely affected countries have gained much insight into how to prevent HIV transmission. This knowledge however comes too late for many countries to usefully employ. Other countries still have time to take concerted action against the spread of HIV. …
Local Government Centre Stage
Journal Article LOCAL GOVERNMENT CENTRE STAGE Get access David J. Wilson David J. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 447–450, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052375 Published: 01 July 1992
Turning a Drama into a Crisis
Predictions about the end of local government are not new. In 1966 William Robson wrote Local Government in Crisis which pointed to the possible demise of elected local government- and this was an update of texts written in 1947 and 1926! Writing in 1985 in a similar vein George Jones and John Stewart observed
Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit
1994). Facing up to the ‘democratic deficit’. Local Government Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-201
Differences in self reported health status between ever-smokers and never-smokers
Book notes
The Politics of Decentralization: Revitalising Local Democracy by Danny Burns, Robin Hambleton and Paul Hoggett. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp.283; bibliograpy; index. £35 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 52163 3 and 52164 1 Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain by David Denver. Second Edition. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. Pp.179; bibliography; index. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7450 1602 2 Democracy in Z…
The Local Government Commission
This article shows how a complex configuration of interests has shaped the work of the Local Government Commission for England ( lgc ). The article focuses upon the consultative processes associated with the work of the commission in Leicestershire and makes a dual contribution to our understanding of the emerging structure of English non‐metropolitan local government. First, it provides a detailed insight into the consultative exercises carried …
Individual Differences in Machiavellianism as a Mix of Cooperative and Exploitative Strategies
Should we be frightened of bracken? A review of the evidence
OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk to human health of the plant bracken (Pteridium sp). DESIGN: An evaluation of studies of human and animal populations exposed to bracken, together with a review of expert reports and advice to the public. MAIN RESULTS: Bracken induced disease has been demonstrated in animals in both laboratory and field studies. Depending on the species, diseases in animals associated with the plant have included; cancers of the alim…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)