We are not ‘all in this together’: British democracy is suffering from the disconnect between politicians and the wider public

Recent failures of British democracy lead voters to feel that being ignored by Government is the most likely consequence of casting a vote and participating in democracy, writes Mary Evans

Revisiting a Historic Manuscript: Vere Huddleston’s Report on East Place (3CL21) Excavations

Vere L. Huddleston was one of several amateur archaeologists who excavated Caddo sites in Clark County, Arkansas, during the 1930s and 1940s. Huddleston took better notes about the sites and contexts of his finds than many of his contemporaries. His large collection of artifacts is now part of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection in Arkadelphia. A manuscript on his excavations at the East Place – the largest Caddo mound group in Clark County – is presented here with new vessel documentation and grave lot information. Since many of these artifacts have appeared in previous publications with little description, this work provides context for interpreting the site and its placement in the Caddo Indian history of this region

Trump’s election represents the popular rejection of an unreachable American Dream

Last night Donald Trump won the US presidential election in a shock upset, defying both the political establishment and the pollsters. Here, Mary Evans of the LSE Gender Institute looks at how Trump voters feel excluded from joining the middle class and disillusioned with the American Dream

A message to Jon Cruddas and Labour: challenge, construct and connect

The Labour Party needs to do a better job in future of challenging their opponents’ narrative rather than working from within its frame, says Mary Evans. From there, it would be possible and beneficial to set out new ways of thinking about politics and the political without resorting to the binaries of ‘left’ and ‘right’. And finally, the party must connect, not just with focus groups or the powerful, but with campaigners and those with real professional experience outside the Westminster bubble

Women and the politics of austerity: new forms of respectability

The relationship of women to conditions of material austerity is often characterised as having two main themes: women as recipients of charity and the question of which women are entitled to various forms of charitable and state assistance. This paper discusses the ways in which discourses about women and charity are highly moralised, assuming both that women are unlikely to ‘ask for more’ and that women have to be ‘good’ and ‘respectable’ in order to deserve public assistance. In the concluding section, the paper considers the ways in which women’s ‘respectability’ has become associated with participation in the labour market, and the various ways in which this constitutes a new form of the ‘deserving’ female poor

Afterword

The distinctions between the public and the private have long been a way of organising the material world, and those distinctions are shifting. This article traces a brief history of the increasingly insecure privacy – both deliberate and not – that is a defining characteristic of our age.

Assessing the State of Tennessee’s Environment

This 2007 volume of An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee is the thirty-first in a series of annual reports compiled in response to requests by state government officials for assistance in achieving greater interdepartmental consistency in planning and budgeting efforts sensitive to the overall economic environment. Both short-term, or business cycle-sensitive forecasts, and longer-term, or trend forecasts, are provided in this report

Changing attitudes toward science and women in science: assessing the impact of a role model intervention on ninth grade students

This dissertation describes the results of a three-day role model intervention. The intervention utilized female scientists and engineers to change the attitudes of ninth grade students toward science and math and toward the role of females in technical careers. A general introduction and literature review describe factors influencing the attitudes and behaviors of adolescent girls toward science and technology. Three papers report the results of the study;In the first paper, we explain the development and testing of an instrument designed to measure ninth grade students\u27 attitudes toward science and math and the role of females in technical careers. The questionnaire was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the role model intervention. Mean student responses to eleven pre-test items relating to the role of females in technical careers were skewed, indicating that gender stereotyping was not pronounced: A factor analysis indicated that seven factors defined students\u27 attitudes toward science and math;The second article describes the design, administration and results of the pre-test. Mean factor scores revealed that participating ninth grade girls and boys like math more than science, that girls and boys like math equally well, and that boys like science more than girls. Differences appear to be school specific;The third article evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention. The intervention was developed to inform students about the importance of science and math courses to many careers; to encourage them to stay in science and math so as to not limit their options; and to emphasize that these careers are appropriate for both girls and boys. The differences between the students\u27 mean pre- and post-test scores on six factors found to be associated with students\u27 interest in and attitudes toward science and math and technical careers were analyzed to determine which of five experimental groups responded most positively to the intervention. Higher difference scores indicated that the attitudes of girls and boys who participated in the intervention improved more than the attitudes of girls and boys in the control groups