Recent blog posts from around the School

Description: By the end of this month, 41 newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales will be facing the challenge of filling their diaries with appointments to help them get to grips with a role that is both new and controversial. Whatever their mandate from the electorate, their role will open up some very interesting possibilities around public involvement in policing. Blog post written by Ian Briggs.
Date:: Friday 16th November 2012

Description: You probably caught Monday's headlines: "Country's largest authority hit by £757 million equal pay bill"; "Birmingham taxpayers face massive service cuts to pay for growing compensation bill"; "Council bankrupt if Government withholds borrowing permission". Written by Chris Game.
Date:: Tuesday 13th November 2012

Description: The elections on 15th November 2012 of 41 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) for the police force areas of England and Wales (outside London) represents the start of one of the biggest experiments in democratic governance. The new office of PCC, for which there is no known precedent in policing around the world, surely represents the most significant change in at least fifty years in how the police in England and Wales are governed and held to account. Written by john RAine and Paul Keasey.
Date:: Monday 12th November 2012

Description: I noticed recently that, among the links on the right-hand side of this page, we still listed the We Love Local Government blog – which, despite its having been wound up, in characteristic style, several months ago, rather pleased me. It deserves to live on, and, should its belatedly unveiled authors, Glen Ocsko and Gareth Young, happen to see this blog, they may take it as a small personal tribute to them and their … I was going to type 'baby', but that would make them filicidists … creation. Written by Chris Game.
Date:: Wednesday 31st October 2012

Description: On 17 October 2012, the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham brought together leading experts on research communication to share experiences and lessons learned about managing knowledge and evaluating the uptake and impact of research and evidence on policy and practice.
Date:: Wednesday 24th October 2012

Description: This week, there is plenty of news about granting 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote. You may therefore be surprised to learn that another group may have their right to vote withdrawn. Okay, I am being slightly flippant here, but there is a potentially serious oversight on whether councillors should be allowed to vote at the full council budget setting meeting. By Philip Whiteman.
Date:: Monday 15th October 2012

Description: East Cambridgeshire, East Hampshire, East Northamptonshire, South Hams, South Ribble, West Devon – anything you reckon they might have in common, apart from 'compass point' names that for most of us require translation to make much sense: Ely/Newmarket, Petersfield/Alton, Rushden, Totnes, Leyland, Tavistock/Okehampton, if you were wondering. By Chris Game.
Date:: Monday 15th October 2012

Description: Jack Copley, who graduated from POLSIS in July 2012 with a first class degree in Political Science, has recently had an article published on the Irish current affairs website Politico. The article, which is based on his prize-winning undergraduate dissertation, analyses the impact of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon on a working class district of Dublin.
Date:: Friday 28th September 2012

Description: Local government could never be described as fashionable, yet today there is more talk than ever about the importance of 'the local'. However, this has converted into less, rather than more, freedom to act locally. Written by Martin Scott.
Date:: Wednesday 26th September 2012

Description: One of the minor hypotheses in Chris Game's general theory of local elections concerns the correlation between a party's rating of its own current fortunes and the accuracy of its councillor listings on its national website. In brief: the greater the optimism, the greater the accuracy. Written by Chris Game.
Date:: Wednesday 26th September 2012

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