The Home Office and Race Relations Policy
Coordinator and Initiator
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6295966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaqi Nixon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 365-378 |
| Publication date | 1982-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-814X • E-ISSN: 1469-7815 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0143814x00002646 |
| OpenAlex | W1969389195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article attempts to analyse why, to quote a recent report from the Home Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons, ‘in the vacuum caused by the Home Office's reluctance to be seen to be interfering, ethnic minority concerns go by default’. It first examines the reasons for placing responsibility for race relations policy with the Home Office and then goes on to detail events within the Home Office in the two years following the introduction of the 1976 Race Relations Act. The article concludes by suggesting that a lack of preparedness for the implementation stage of the policy, together with a diminution of political commitment and the limitations on special funding, discouraged the Home Office from playing a more active and more effective role in coordinating and initiating within central government policies for racial disadvantage
Business · Disadvantage · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · House of Commons · Political science · Politics · Preparedness · Public relations · Race (biology · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 1989 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |