Trade
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Business and Politics: A Relationship under Challenge. Introduction
The variety of ways in which business interacts with politics can only be understood if we recognise the heterogeneity of business. Indeed, capital vs capital conflicts are often now more important than those with traditional foes.
- Political Parties
- Trade
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Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s
The surprising departures in how the two major British parties have cultivated and regulated financial services since the 1990s – Labour leaderships have consistently sought to accommodate the City, while the Conservatives have defied it at important junctures.
- Political Parties
- Trade
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Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders
Labour leaderships have consistently sought to accommodate the City, while the Conservatives have defied it at important junctures.
- Political Parties
- Trade
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Business, Government and Policy-making Capacity: UK Energy and Net Zero Transitions
The UK is not on track to meet its next Climate Change Act targets or the goal of Net Zero by 2050. How should we view government-business relations when it comes to sustainable energy policy making?
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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UK Energy and Net Zero Transitions
Why have government-business relations and government capacity to act meant that the UK is not on track to achieve Net Zero by 2050?
- Conservative Party
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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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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Big Tech Lobbying in the EU
Investigating lobbying by US digital platforms, the so-called Big Tech, with regard to the Digital Markets Act, and analysing whether lobbying on the Digital Markets Act fits with academic analysis of the general properties of corporate lobbying in the EU.
- Trade
- Media
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Industrial Policies or Industrial Strategy: The Difficulty of Enacting Long-Term Supply-Side Reform in the UK
The government's recent ditching of Theresa May's interventionist ‘Industrial Strategy’ and its replacement with the ‘Plan for Growth’ has dismayed many. But the move exemplifies the UK's ad hoc, short-termist and ideologically driven industrial strategy.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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Regulatory Opportunities Come with Potential Costs for Post Brexit UK Services
Whilst there are opportunities to tailor regulation to the UK economy, it is important to recognise the potential costs, that diverging from the EU on regulatory reform may give rise to.
- Brexit
- Trade
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This Isn’t What a ‘National Liberation’ Should Look Like
Viewed as a national liberation, Brexit looks distinctly odd. Brexit has simply bequeathed a nation divided.
- Brexit
- Trade
