Public Policy
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How Covid Changed Relations Between the UK Government and Private Providers
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government used emergency legislation to change its relationship with private providers. This risks a permanent change in government-provider relations, to the detriment of the UK's contracting out framework.
- Trade
- Covid-19
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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Relations Between the Government and Public Service Contractors
The government's response to Covid-19 risks a permanent change in government-provider relations, to the detriment of the UK's contracting out framework.
- Trade
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Policy Makers Must Pay Attention to Employers’ Perspectives
Employers’ views on new expectations under Universal Credit have been puzzlingly absent from both research and policy debates.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
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The Missing Political Science of Pensions Provision
It is time for political science to take pensions policy more seriously, even if the public probably never will. If not, millions of people will be significantly worse off in later life.
- Political Parties
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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The Waste Commons
Rubbish belongs to the poor because they have maintained customary access to it over decades as a way of sustaining themselves. Is waste as a form of urban commons?
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why Motherhood is Intensely Political
Despite decades of further social progress, motherhood has become a politics-free zone. Yet the truth is that motherhood is intensely, yet covertly, politicised.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
- USA
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The Impact and Legacy of the PFI in UK Schools
As the attraction of public-private partnerships has waned, a combination of different investment models is now favoured.
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Review: Modern Epidemics from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19, by Salvador Macip
Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemics and the survival of the human species.
- Covid-19
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“There is a Deeply Entrenched Assumption That England Doesn’t Need its Own Institutions or Voice:" Interview with Michael Kenny
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Bernard Crick Prize.
- Devolution
- Parliament
- Brexit
- Covid-19
