Lessons learned and study results from HIVCore, an HIV implementation science initiative

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Local government finance in Britain: a Liberal Party view of possible reforms

This paper outlines a number of possible reforms of local government finance in Britain against the philosophical background of reducing the power of government in aggregate and reasserting the independence of local authorities. The reforms suggested are for a simpler central grant, a local income tax (combined with self-assessment and year-end adjustment for present PAYE payers, with eventual noncumulative PAYE and credit income tax), a land value tax at national level to replace local nondomestic rates, charges for use of local services by industry and commerce, and a new independent revenue source for parish and community councils. These proposals are proffered as a review of one aspect of the political platform for change offered by the 'centre' political parties in Britain.

Strategic canonisation : sanctity, popular culture and the Catholic Church

In his twenty-seven year reign (1978-2005), Pope John Paul II created not only more saints than any other pope in history, but also more saints than all the other popes put together since Pope Urban VIII centralised control of saint-making in 1634. This article argues that the elevation of ‘celebrity saints’, such as Padre Pio and Mother Theresa, can be seen as an attempt on the part of the Catholic Church to strengthen its presence within the arena of popular culture. Through a sustained programme of ‘strategic canonization’, John Paul II promoted models of sanctity that conveyed very clear social and political messages. Such messages were amplified through extensive Catholic media and, where ‘celebrity saints’ were involved, through the secular media too. These processes are analysed first, in relation to the general area of sexual politics; and secondly, to the Church’s historic relationship with Nazism. Whilst John Paul’s programme may not have achieved all that it intended, it clearly demonstrated the Catholic Church’s unique capacity to reinvent very old forms of cultural policy for changing times

Revolutionary Liberalism'? The Philosophy and Politics of Ownership in the Post-War Liberal Party

Examines the thinking about the reform of capitalist oproperty rights in the post-war Liberal Party in the UK in order to cast light on (a) the ideological charcater of post-war Liberalism, (b) the range of ways in which capitalism was challenged or critiqued in post-war British politics and (c) alternative economic institutions of relevance today