Patterns and Processes of Change in the Spatial Distribution of Foreign-Controlled Manufacturing Employment in the United Kingdom, 1963 to 1975

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1405-1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Dicken ◽  
P E Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Level ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Employment Change ◽  
Manufacturing Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Patterns And Processes

Considerable changes occurred between 1963 and 1975 in the absolute and relative importance of foreign-controlled manufacturing employment both nationally and regionally. Its spatial distribution became rather more even, but there were substantial spatial and temporal variations in the rate and direction of foreign-controlled employment change. Such changes were brought about by the interaction of several components of which only one—new foreign openings—has been monitored at the national level. Case studies of the foreign sector in two large metropolitan areas, however, show that similar aggregate changes may be produced by quite different combinations of components. The in situ expansion of foreign branch plants explained most of the increase in the size of the foreign sector in Merseyside. By contrast, acquisition of United Kingdom enterprises explained most of the change in Manchester. Such differences raise a number of policy-related issues.

THE CONFRONTATION OF THE PARTIES TO THE SEPARATIST CONFLICT BY MEANS OF «SOFT POWER» (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CATALONIA AND SCOTLAND)

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
E.A. TYURIN ◽  
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E.N. SAVINOVA ◽  
О.V. PEREVERZEVA ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
National Level ◽  
Power Characteristic ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Grounds

The article attempts to apply the concept of «soft power», characteristic of international relations, to analyze the struggle of participants in separatist conflicts at the national level. The purpose of the study is to consider the «soft power» resources and tools of each of the parties to the conflict between Catalonia and Spain and the conflict between Scotland and the United Kingdom. The main research methods are general logical, institutional and comparative. It is concluded that in the countries under consideration, in the conditions of the manifestation of separatism, the «soft power» has obvious socio-cultural, political, institutional and legal grounds. According to the authors, despite the specifics of the «soft power» confrontation, in each of the cases considered, culture in its various manifestations, image strategies of the parties to the conflict, as well as the institution of the monarchy are crucial.

Libraries, museums and archives collaboration in the United Kingdom and Europe

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Owen ◽  
Rosalind Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Level ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Opening Up

Partnership is the watchword throughout Europe currently and libraries, museums and archives, with their wide areas of common interest, are well placed for collaborative working. In particular, technology is opening up the possibility of ever closer collaboration in the creation of a wealth of resources in digital form. While the United Kingdom plans to use digitisation, allied to changed administrative arrangements at national level, to integrate its museum, library and archive activities, the developments in collaboration in these areas in Europe also repay scrutiny.

Toward International Comparative Research on Associational Activity

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 163S-181S ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
International Comparative

This article describes the scope and composition of national associational populations in four similar countries (Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and United States), by way of introducing an important new data release on national associational populations. Special attention is devoted to the subset of associations attending to social inequality issues of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and which are of particular interest to social movement and interest group scholars. No evidence is found for the Tocquevillian notion of heightened national-level associational activity in the United States. The nonmembership associational form is, however, particularly prominent in the United States. Associations attending to social inequality issues in the United Kingdom are structured very differently from these other nations, likely as a result of the unitary nature of government in that country rather than a strong federal system.

scholarly journals Love Thy Neighbourhood—Rethinking the Politics of Scale and Walsall's Struggle for Neighbourhood Democracy

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Level ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Politics Of Scale ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Moral Space ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Neighbourhood Scale

Despite its apparent irrelevance as a scale or space of sociocultural organisation, the neighbourhood is back on the political agenda. At an international level, the neighbourhood—or, more specifically, the ‘global neighbourhood'—is being promoted as a moral space through which to manage the complex economic, political, and ecological problems of the planet. Mirroring this process at a national level, in the United Kingdom the neighbourhood has been rediscovered and now provides the parameters through which a range of antipoverty, welfare, and local democracy programmes are being delivered. In light of its contemporary political popularity, this paper presents a critical reanalysis of the concept of the neighbourhood. In particular, the analysis explores the ideological and political uses of the ideal of neighbourhood, and how these processes relate to a particular ‘politics of scale'. In order to unpack the various politics of scales associated with the neighbourhood, the analysis combines theories of scale with Lefebvre's work on the production of space. Drawing on these theoretical insights and the case of neighbourhood politics in the town of Walsall in the United Kingdom, I explore the political narratives and practices through which the neighbourhood scale is produced and contested, and question the ability of neighbourhoods, as they are currently being constructed in the United Kingdom, to offer locally empowering scales of political and social organisation.

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