A generation apart? Youth and political participation in Britain

Conventional wisdom holds that young people in Britain are alienated from politics, with some claiming that this reflects a wider crisis of legitimacy that should be met by initiatives to increase citizenship. This article addresses these areas, presenting both panel survey and focus group data from first-time voters. It concludes that, contrary to the findings from many predominantly quantitative studies of political participation, young people are interested in political matters, and do support the democratic process. However they feel a sense of anti-climax having voted for the first time, and are critical of those who have been elected to positions of political power. If they are a generation apart, this is less to do with apathy, and more to do with their engaged scepticism about ‘formal’ politics in Britain

Public Private Partnerships in Urban Regeneration Projects: organizational form or managerial capacity

Abstract Urban Regeneration Companies (URCs) are public private entities that have begun to appear in several European nations and are set up specifically to manage and implement Urban Regeneration projects. One of the core ideas behind the establishment of these partnerships is that in order to effectively tackle the challenging process of restructuring, these organizations should function at arm’s length from the political institutions that oversee them. However, the literature on governance suggests that organizational form may be less of a factor than management capability. Using survey data obtained from individuals who are heavily involved in Dutch Urban Regeneration Partnerships, this paper shows that the organizational features of URCs (functioning at arm’s length from the government, the tightness of the organizational form) are not important to their performance, while the use of multiple management strategies is relevant to

The Comptroller and Auditor General\u27s Report on Accounts to the House of Commons

The financial stability intervention

Treasury statement on restructuring its investment in RBS to deliver further bank lending to industry and homeowners

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