Paul Chaney
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284343 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Chaney |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Chaney |
| ASSINATURA | CHANEY P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2110-0436 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 260 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Civil Society Organisations’ Perspectives on the Contemporary Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh
Based on corpus analysis of submissions to the latest United Nations Universal Periodic Review, this study examines civil society organisations’ perspectives on the contemporary human rights situation of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. The analysis confirms how they are subject to discrimination, denial of land rights, exclusion from decision-making, violence and suppression of indigenous languages. We argue that the present constitutes a criti…
Examining the contemporary challenges of ‘sub‐state’ welfare development
This study explores the challenges associated with sub‐state welfare development in Wales, one of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. It examines the Welsh Government's stated aim of creating a coherent and compassionate Welsh Benefits System (WBS) based on human rights and equality. The analysis reveals a broad array of Welsh Government‐administered benefits yet argues that the current WBS is fragmented and arcane, with limited uptake…
Fatal Discrimination
This study explores civil society and state perspectives on the human rights status of persons with albinism ( PWA ), a rare genetic condition characterized by reduced or absent pigmentation of the hair, skin, and eyes. This analysis examines the “situated knowledge” in civil society organisations ( CSO s) regarding the human rights situation of PWA in six sub-Saharan African states. The dataset comes from the Universal Periodic Review ( UPR ), t…
Critical Analysis of Civil Society Organisations' Perspectives on the Contemporary Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Nepal
This study examines civil society organisations' perspectives on the contemporary human rights situation of Indigenous Peoples (IP) in Nepal. It confirms they continue to be subject to violations of all three generations of human rights laws - including discrimination, denial of land rights, inadequate social welfare provision, exclusion from decision-making, violence and suppression of indigenous languages. The violations are systemic. This poin…
Cultural genocide? Civil society perspectives on the contemporary human rights situation of indigenous people in Bolivia
Bolivia is the first country to incorporate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into domestic law, yet some have suggested that Indigenous People (IP) remain subjected to extensive rights violations that may amount to cultural genocide, or the effective destruction of a people by systemically destroying or undermining the integrity of their culture and system of values. This study examines whether there is empirical…
Civil Society Perspectives on Rights and Freedoms in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
This pan-regional analysis of non-governmental organisations’ ( NGO ) perspectives on the contemporary factors which constrain or repress civil society in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) is based on United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review ( UPR ) data. It shows that, paradoxically, whilst the majority of ASEAN states have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ) that upholds civil society’…
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States
This first pan-regional analysis of civil society organizations' perspectives on the contemporary situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Commonwealth of Independent States uses United Nations' Universal Periodic Review (UPR) data and reveals a shrinking civil space as HRDs face a raft of rights pathologies, including threats, violence and murder. Their work is curtailed by increasing state restrictions on freedom of association and exp…
Voluntary Action, Territory and Timing
This article analyses the development of the Council of Social Service for Wales during what is often called the Golden Age of the Welfare State. Recovering the neglected history of the peak organisation for voluntary social service in Wales adds to our understanding of the histories of social policy and postwar Wales. The article addresses social policy from a doubly peripheral perspective - it attends to a territorial periphery of the UK State …
Exploring civil society perspectives on the human rights situation of LGBT + people in the Caribbean Community
This study is the first pan-regional analysis of civil society organizations’ perspectives on the human rights situation of LGBT + people in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. Paradoxically, whilst UN treaties extend anti-discrimination rights to LGBT + people in most member countries, simultaneously, colonial-era legislation makes intimate same sex relations unlawful. Analysis of the corpus of civil society organizations’ (CSO) submissions…
Shrinking Civil Space? Exploring State and Civil Society Perspectives on the Contemporary Situation of Human Rights Defenders in South Asia
This study analyses state and civil society organizations’ (CSOs) perspectives on the contemporary situation of human rights defenders (HRD) in South Asia using submissions to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the United Nations five-yearly monitoring process. The governments’ UPR discourse shows how their engagement is characterized by performativity and legitimation. They appear to embrace the promotion of HRDs’ rights in a way that advances…
Civil Society Perspectives on Children’s Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
“This study analyses civil society organisations’ ( cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ( opt ). This is a troubled context, for Israel – the ‘State Party’ to the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child ( crc ), disputes that its obligations extend to the opt . In consequence, there has been a dearth of official data and scholarly attention to the situation. Discourse analysis of cso s’ rep…
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business
This study is concerned with the substantive representation of non-human species in parliamentary business. It applies Leston-Bandeira’s legislative functions perspective (LFP) to a data set of 2500 public petitions on animal welfare, submitted over three terms of the UK parliament. The wider significance of this work lies in: (i) underlining the utility of the LFP to petitions analysis; (ii) showing that, while few directly secure policy change,…
Civil Society, Rights and Welfare
This study examines Cambodia's implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Corpus analysis of civil society organisations' submissions to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review reveals a raft of CRC violations, including sexual abuse, trafficking and child labour. This is due to political and bureaucratic failings. The wider significance of this lies in underlining how the disjuncture between state and …
India’s progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Official data tell us there are currently 27 million persons with disabilities in India.In 2008, the country was swift to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities-the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century, aiming to 'take to a new height the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as 'objects' of charity, medical treatment and social protection towards viewing persons w…
Exploring the politicisation and territorialisation of adult social care in the United Kingdom
In the face of a global demographic shift, an aging population and a ‘crisis’ in adult social care (ASC), this study analyses over 3000 pledges on ASC in political parties’ manifesto discourse following the United Kingdom’s move to a multi-level electoral politics in 1998/1999. Although often overlooked, attention to this formative phase of social policy-making reveals the discursive political antecedents of welfare interventions. The analysis sh…
Civil Society, Rights and Welfare
In response to international concerns about ongoing rights violations, this study presents a comparative analysis of state and civil society organisations' discourse on the early phase implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The findings show that PWD continue to experience rights-denial and barriers to shaping policy and accessing social welfare. …
Examining Political Parties' Record on Refugees and Asylum Seekers in UK Party Manifestos 1964-2019
This study addresses a key lacuna by analyzing political parties’ formative policy record on refugees’ and asylum seekers’ welfare in party manifestos for state-wide and meso-elections in the UK, 1964–2019. The findings confirm relational contrasts in issue-prioritization and the framing of pledges – between parties and across polities. The wider significance of this lies in underlining the need to examine the formative, electoral phase of refuge…
Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh
Against the international backdrop of rising religious tensions, this article explores contemporary civil society views on religious freedom in Bangladesh. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) submissions to the United Nations’ third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 2013-18. It provides a timely assessment of Bangladesh’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom, and shows …
An institutionally Ableist State? Exploring civil society perspectives on the implementation of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities in India
In response to international concerns about ongoing rights violations, this benchmark study analyses the situated knowledge of civil society organizations and examines their discourse on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in India. The findings show that Persons with Disabilities continue to experience rights-denial, and institutional ableism resulting in barriers to shaping polic…
Human rights and social welfare pathologies
This study uses discourse analysis of the critical views expressed in the corpus of United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) submissions by civil society organisations (CSOs), in order to explore how the UK, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland governments are responding to their international human rights treaty obligations in the formulation and delivery of social policy. Developed from Hogwood and Peters’ work on the pathology of public…
Sentience and salience – exploring the party politicization of animal welfare in multi-level electoral systems
This study explores the party politicization of animal welfare in the context of multi-level governance in the UK. It examines over 1300 pledges in party manifestos for Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections 1998–2017. It reveals the nature of party competition, including increasing salience over electoral cycles. This is complemented by examination of the party dynamics in two sub-fields: wildlife protection and farm animal welfare. The wi…
Exploring the meso-territorialization of third sector administration and welfare delivery in federal and union states
The international trend of state restructuring and the rise of decentralized welfare systems means a key challenge for social research is to systematically explore the breadth of factors shaping the territorialization of third sector welfare delivery at the meso level in federal and union states. We address this lacuna by synthesizing historical-institutionalism and critical realism with Salamon and Anheier’s classic framework on civic infrastruc…
Civil Society Organisations and LGBT+ Rights in Bangladesh
This article explores civil society organizations’ (CSOs) views on the contemporary situation of LGBT + people in Bangladesh. It is a lacuna requiring attention because of the country’s poor and deteriorating equality and human rights record. Here we analyse the level of attention to prevailing human rights violations and apply critical frame analysis to the corpus of CSOs’ submissions to the United Nations third cycle Universal Periodic Review (…
India at the crossroads? Civil society, human rights and religious freedom
In order to provide a timely assessment of India’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom this article explores the nature and ‘issue-salience’ of different human rights ‘pathologies’. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) submissions to the third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The findings reveal CSOs’ concerns over the weakening of rule of law institutions and restrict…
Civil Society, ‘Traditional Values’ and LGBT Resistance to Heteronormative Rights Hegemony
This study of LGBT rights in the Russian Federation uses frame analysis of civil society input into the UN Universal Periodic Review. It reveals a stark state-civil society ‘disconnect’ reflecting oppressive government practices, including Law No. 135-FZ on ‘non-traditional sexual relations’. This raises wider questions about the efficacy of the UPR system, not least because issues of performativity and legitimation can be seen to facilitate auth…
Critical Mass, Deliberation and the Substantive Representation of Women
This article provides empirical evidence to support recent assertions that the substantive representation of women depends not only on the numbers of women elected representatives in national legislatures, but also who they are. In this case study of one of the UK's devolved legislatures, analysis was undertaken of the transcripts of 327 plenary debates held during the first term of the National Assembly for Wales, where women constituted 42 perc…
Critical Actors vs. Critical Mass
Recent theory-building on the substantive representation of women (SRW) in parliamentary settings contends that in addition to traditional concerns about achieving a ‘critical mass’ of women, scholars need to question who the ‘critical actors’ are. Analysis of a range of deliberative functions of the Scottish Parliament supports the critical actor thesis—yet, while female critical actors have disproportionate policy-making influence, the present …
The post-devolution equality agenda
English Within the context of the devolution statutes introduced by the 1997 UK Parliament, the Welsh Assembly's statutory equality imperative is unique in its non-prescriptive phrasing and all-embracing scope; it requires government to promote equality of opportunity for all people in the exercise of all its functions. Written at the end of the National Assembly for Wales's first term, this article sets out the background to the duty, explores i…
Is there a Demand for Descriptive Representation? Evidence from the UK's Devolution Programme
Descriptive representation occurs when elected politicians are typical of the larger class of persons that they represent, such that blacks represent blacks, disabled people represent disabled people and so on. Research undertaken in the context of the UK government's devolution programme helps us to judge the strength of the demand for descriptive representation amongst political activists and elites. In the case of women, one grouping where pro…
Devolved Governance and the Substantive Representation of Women
The UK's devolution programme in the 1990s was, in part, predicated upon ideas of ‘inclusiveness’ and overturning the traditional male domination of politics. Whilst attention has tended to focus on the increase in the numbers of women elected representatives, comparatively less focus has been placed upon the impact of devolution on women's substantive representation-or the situation whereby women's needs and concerns are reflected in public poli…
Inclusive Governance and “Minority” Groups
Following the establishment of a national legislature in Wales in 1999 the third sector has entered into a pioneering cross-sectoral partnership with the Welsh government. This paper presents the results of a research project that has studied the new structures of devolved governance through the expectations and participation of voluntary organizations representing three marginalized or “minority” groupings: women, disabled people, and those from…
Civil Society, ‘Traditional Values’ and LGBT Resistance to Heteronormative Rights Hegemony
This study of LGBT rights in the Russian Federation uses frame analysis of civil society input into the UN Universal Periodic Review. It reveals a stark state-civil society ‘disconnect’ reflecting oppressive government practices, including Law No. 135-FZ on ‘non-traditional sexual relations’. This raises wider questions about the efficacy of the UPR system, not least because issues of performativity and legitimation can be seen to facilitate auth…
The resale of right to buy dwellings
Civil Society, Rights and Welfare
In response to international concerns about ongoing rights violations, this study presents a comparative analysis of state and civil society organisations' discourse on the early phase implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The findings show that PWD continue to experience rights-denial and barriers to shaping policy and accessing social welfare. …
Institutional Ableism, Critical Actors and the Substantive Representation of Disabled People
This study is concerned with the substantive representation of disabled people (SRDP) in legislative settings; in other words, addressing disabled people's needs and concerns in policy and lawmaking. Mixed methods analysis of post-1940 Acts of the UK Parliament, backbench MPs' use of early day motions (EDMs) and written parliamentary questions (WPQs) reveals long-standing institutional ableism. This is the situation whereby systemic practices dis…
Party Politicisation and the Formative Phase of Environmental Policy-Making in Multi-level Systems
Despite sustained public demand for parties to act, the environment has been subject to limited issue salience in UK state-wide elections. This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore party politicisation of the environment in regional elections 1998–2011. Contrary to earlier suggestions, the present findings indicate that multi-level systems may facilitate increasing environmental issue salience at the meso level. In part th…
Public Policy for Non-humans
This study uses mixed methods to explore the issue salience and policy framing of animal welfare in UK state-wide parties' Westminster election manifestos and parliamentary Early Day Motions. Over the past three decades there has been a gradual increase in salience, accompanied by a Left–Right cleavage. The latter is a function of contrasting framing practices and levels of political prioritisation. The Left exhibits a greater general propensity …
Equality and territorial (in-)justice? Exploring the impact of devolution on social welfare for older people in the UK
This paper examines the impact of devolution on social welfare for older people and the associated administration of age equality. Analysis of policy discourse, rights and stakeholders’ views reveals divergent practice in the constituent nations of the UK. In normative terms this is shown to present a tension between universal welfare rights and entitlements – and regional differentiation. It is argued that this presents a dilemma in terms of ter…
Civil Society Organisations and LGBT+ Rights in Bangladesh
This article explores civil society organizations’ (CSOs) views on the contemporary situation of LGBT + people in Bangladesh. It is a lacuna requiring attention because of the country’s poor and deteriorating equality and human rights record. Here we analyse the level of attention to prevailing human rights violations and apply critical frame analysis to the corpus of CSOs’ submissions to the United Nations third cycle Universal Periodic Review (…
India at the crossroads? Civil society, human rights and religious freedom
In order to provide a timely assessment of India’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom this article explores the nature and ‘issue-salience’ of different human rights ‘pathologies’. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) submissions to the third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The findings reveal CSOs’ concerns over the weakening of rule of law institutions and restrict…
Civil Society and Gender Mainstreaming
Using critical discourse analysis, this twelve-country study addresses a key lacuna by examining civil society perspectives on the implementation of the Participative Democratic Model (PDM) of gender mainstreaming in post-conflict states. The findings reveal specific data, transitional justice, and governance challenges in war-affected states as policy actors press for heightened attention to issues such as the effects on women of war-induced pov…
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business
This study is concerned with the substantive representation of non-human species in parliamentary business. It applies Leston-Bandeira’s legislative functions perspective (LFP) to a data set of 2500 public petitions on animal welfare, submitted over three terms of the UK parliament. The wider significance of this work lies in: (i) underlining the utility of the LFP to petitions analysis; (ii) showing that, while few directly secure policy change,…
Exploring political parties’ manifesto discourse on tourism
Manifesto Discourse and the Substantive Representation of Ethnic Minorities
Using mixed methods this paper explores issue salience and the policy framing associated with the substantive representation of ethnic minorities. Its focus is party programmes in Westminster (1964–2010) and Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections (1998–2011). The analysis reveals a significant increase in issue salience driven by parties of the Left. This applies to both state-wide and meso-elections, thereby providing evidence of political…
Exploring the Pathologies of One-Party-Dominance on Third Sector Public Policy Engagement in Liberal Democracies
In liberal systems governing-party-turnover and third sector organisations’ engagement in public policy-making are seen as key factors maintaining the health of democracy. However, a significant lacuna in current understanding is the effect on engagement when governing-party-turnover is absent. Accordingly, drawing on qualitative interview data, this study examines the effects of one-party-dominance (OPD) in Wales; a regional polity in the UK whe…
Unfulfilled Mandate? Exploring the Electoral Discourse of International Development Aid in UK Westminster Elections 1945–2010
Education, equality and human rights
Foremost amongst social policy interventions, state education has a singular and foundational role in the promotion of equality and human rights. This paper explores the way that such matters are addressed in the policy and law making programmes of the UK’s devolved administrations. It is argued that this is an appropriate locus of enquiry for the constitutional law establishing the devolved legislatures contains clauses empowering government to …
A Case of Institutional Decoupling
This article develops an institutionalist perspective, and draws upon original research and the findings of two evaluation reports in order to critically assess the approach to equalities in Welsh public policy following electeddevolution in 1999. The key aim here is to determine whether the Welsh Assembly Government's stated aim of mainstreaming equality is being realised. Accordingly, attention is focussed on: the legal and institutional contex…
Social Capital and the Participation of Marginalized Groups in Government
This paper outlines the initial impact that recent constitutional reform has had in reframing governance and changing the role of the third sector in Wales. In the wake of devolution it shows a civil society in transition. It examines two democratic innovations; a new and singular statutory partnership between national Welsh government and the voluntary sector, and a unique legal duty requiring that government promote equality of opportunity for …
Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh
Against the international backdrop of rising religious tensions, this article explores contemporary civil society views on religious freedom in Bangladesh. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) submissions to the United Nations’ third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 2013-18. It provides a timely assessment of Bangladesh’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom, and shows …
The resale of right to buy dwellings
Inclusive Governance and “Minority” Groups
Following the establishment of a national legislature in Wales in 1999 the third sector has entered into a pioneering cross-sectoral partnership with the Welsh government. This paper presents the results of a research project that has studied the new structures of devolved governance through the expectations and participation of voluntary organizations representing three marginalized or “minority” groupings: women, disabled people, and those from…
Is there a Demand for Descriptive Representation? Evidence from the UK's Devolution Programme
Descriptive representation occurs when elected politicians are typical of the larger class of persons that they represent, such that blacks represent blacks, disabled people represent disabled people and so on. Research undertaken in the context of the UK government's devolution programme helps us to judge the strength of the demand for descriptive representation amongst political activists and elites. In the case of women, one grouping where pro…
Social Capital and the Participation of Marginalized Groups in Government
This paper outlines the initial impact that recent constitutional reform has had in reframing governance and changing the role of the third sector in Wales. In the wake of devolution it shows a civil society in transition. It examines two democratic innovations; a new and singular statutory partnership between national Welsh government and the voluntary sector, and a unique legal duty requiring that government promote equality of opportunity for …
The primacy of ideology
This chapter emphasises how the Welsh Assembly lacks both tax-varying and primary legislative powers. It is argued that this ‘social policy body’ has the ability for policy innovation and divergence. The chapter shows that certain events in Scotland and Wales during the first terms of the devolved administrations support the claim that as the devolution process evolves, it becomes necessary to speak of the national health services of the UK inste…
Women and constitutional change in Wales
This article explores the relationship between women and constitutional change in Wales. It focuses on how women entered political debates and influenced the process of devolution, as well as the impact of the post-1999 structures, institutions and practices on women and women's political roles. The findings presented here show that recent constitutional reform has begun a process of rapid change. The role of women in national Welsh politics has …
The post-devolution equality agenda
English Within the context of the devolution statutes introduced by the 1997 UK Parliament, the Welsh Assembly's statutory equality imperative is unique in its non-prescriptive phrasing and all-embracing scope; it requires government to promote equality of opportunity for all people in the exercise of all its functions. Written at the end of the National Assembly for Wales's first term, this article sets out the background to the duty, explores i…
A Case of Institutional Decoupling
This article develops an institutionalist perspective, and draws upon original research and the findings of two evaluation reports in order to critically assess the approach to equalities in Welsh public policy following electeddevolution in 1999. The key aim here is to determine whether the Welsh Assembly Government's stated aim of mainstreaming equality is being realised. Accordingly, attention is focussed on: the legal and institutional contex…
Critical Mass, Deliberation and the Substantive Representation of Women
This article provides empirical evidence to support recent assertions that the substantive representation of women depends not only on the numbers of women elected representatives in national legislatures, but also who they are. In this case study of one of the UK's devolved legislatures, analysis was undertaken of the transcripts of 327 plenary debates held during the first term of the National Assembly for Wales, where women constituted 42 perc…
Gender, electoral competition and political behaviour
Comparative international studies illustrate how the process of constitutional reform presents opportunities for more gender-equal modes of national politics. Interrelated to issues of representati
Devolved Governance and the Substantive Representation of Women
The UK's devolution programme in the 1990s was, in part, predicated upon ideas of ‘inclusiveness’ and overturning the traditional male domination of politics. Whilst attention has tended to focus on the increase in the numbers of women elected representatives, comparatively less focus has been placed upon the impact of devolution on women's substantive representation-or the situation whereby women's needs and concerns are reflected in public poli…
Multilevel Governance, Equality and Human Rights
The creation of a ‘regional’ legislature for Wales in 1999 presents the opportunity to evaluate the promotion of equality and human rights in the context of multi-level governance in the UK. A decade on, positive aspects include the political reprioritisation of equalities in policy and law and new forms of representative and discursive politics. However, significant shortcomings are also evident. Overall, the Wales case study suggests that sub-u…
Critical Actors vs. Critical Mass
Recent theory-building on the substantive representation of women (SRW) in parliamentary settings contends that in addition to traditional concerns about achieving a ‘critical mass’ of women, scholars need to question who the ‘critical actors’ are. Analysis of a range of deliberative functions of the Scottish Parliament supports the critical actor thesis—yet, while female critical actors have disproportionate policy-making influence, the present …
Education, equality and human rights
Foremost amongst social policy interventions, state education has a singular and foundational role in the promotion of equality and human rights. This paper explores the way that such matters are addressed in the policy and law making programmes of the UK’s devolved administrations. It is argued that this is an appropriate locus of enquiry for the constitutional law establishing the devolved legislatures contains clauses empowering government to …
The Social Commerce Handbook
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An electoral discourse approach to state decentralisation
Electoral Competition, Issue Salience and Public Policy for Older People
Ageing societies and cohort-based differential turnout present challenges and opportunities in political parties' pursuit of electoral support. This article explores their response with reference to the issue salience of public policy for older people in the manifestos for Westminster and regional elections in the UK, 1945–2011. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of party programmes reveals: (1) a significant increase in issue salience and ele…
Unfulfilled Mandate? Exploring the Electoral Discourse of International Development Aid in UK Westminster Elections 1945–2010
Electoral Discourse Analysis of Civil Conflict Resolution
This paper focuses on the principal parties' manifestos in UK statewide elections 1970–2010. It makes an original contribution by using a mixed methodology to examine the electoral discourse, issue-salience and policy framing associated with civil conflict resolution (CCR) proposals for Northern Ireland. Mandate and accountability theory suggest that party programmes may play an important role in understanding CCR. Accordingly, a series of hypoth…
New legislative settings and the application of the participative-democratic model of mainstreaming equality in public policy making
Studies of established parliamentary contexts highlight institutional barriers to mainstreaming equality of opportunity in public policy-making. In contrast, this paper uses an actor-centred institutionalist perspective to explore the case of the new devolved legislatures in the UK purposively designed with mechanisms to broaden engagement in the policy process. It assesses progress in applying the participative-democratic model of mainstreaming …
Quasi-Federalism and the Administration of Equality and Human Rights
Following the UK's move to quasi-federalism in the 1990s, the Parliament and Assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland gained powers over the promotion of equality of opportunity in the exercise of devolved functions. Constitutional law also placed human rights obligations on the regional administrations. Analysis reveals that the first years of devolution have seen a rapid growth and territorialization of regulatory bodies, such as comm…
Electoral discourse and formative structural narratives of welfare divergence in multi-level systems
Over recent decades there has been an international shift towards multi-level governance. Against this backdrop, many comparative welfare studies take government policy outputs as the starting point for their analysis. However, the associated pluralization of electoral systems in unitary states means that welfare choices are no longer exclusively informed by single state-wide ballots. Accordingly, this study makes an original contribution by expl…
The Substantive Representation of Women—Does Issue-Salience Matter? Party Politicization and UK Westminster Elections 1945–2010
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Responds to recent calls for a more holistic approach to studying the substantive representation of women (SRW). Specifically, it explores the nexus between the SRW and issue-salience. A theoretically-informed review of the literature and analysis of party manifestos in UK elections 1945–2010 both confirm that this matters to contemporary understanding of the SRW. Extends existing understanding of the…
Multi-level Systems and the Electoral Politics of Welfare Pluralism
Electoral politics constitute a formative, agenda-setting phase in the development of mixed-economy approaches to social welfare. This study examines issue-salience and policy framing related to the welfare role of the third sector in party manifestos in UK Westminster and regional elections 1945–2011. The findings reveal a pronounced increase in salience over recent decades. Welfare pluralism, whereby voluntary organisations complement state and…
Equality and territorial (in-)justice? Exploring the impact of devolution on social welfare for older people in the UK
This paper examines the impact of devolution on social welfare for older people and the associated administration of age equality. Analysis of policy discourse, rights and stakeholders’ views reveals divergent practice in the constituent nations of the UK. In normative terms this is shown to present a tension between universal welfare rights and entitlements – and regional differentiation. It is argued that this presents a dilemma in terms of ter…
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