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Are LGAs in Germany and the Netherlands making a difference?

Are LGAs in Germany and the Netherlands making a difference?

Posted on 26 January 2021 by Dennis De Widt

In our latest post, Dr Dennis De Widt examines how local government associations in Germany and the Netherlands operate in different institutional contexts to local government associations in England and how this affects the way local government interests are represented and protected by central government in the different countries.

Make capital work for us!

Posted on 5 November 2019 by Jonathan Preminger

Employee-owned or controlled firms in the UK have developed into a vibrant and growing community. In our latest post, Dr Jonathan Preminger and Dr Guy Major make a real-world proposal […]

New focus on the foundations of the UK’s economy might help poorest regions post-Brexit

New focus on the foundations of the UK’s economy might help poorest regions post-Brexit

Posted on 27 March 2019 by Dylan Henderson

Known as the foundational economy, these “basics” are all the goods and services that provide the social and material infrastructure for society . In our latest post, Dr Dylan Henderson […]

Labour and Wales

Labour and Wales

Posted on 5 February 2019 by Jonathan Rees

Professors Leighton Andrews and Calvin Jones discuss the new Welsh First Minister's campaigning platform of ‘21st Century Socialism’ and its potential to change Wales and the Welsh economy. Taking in […]

Trade unionism and the concrete universal

Trade unionism and the concrete universal

Posted on 31 January 2019 by Jonathan Preminger

Trade unions combine a concrete universalism with collective action and individual agency. In our latest blog, Dr Jonathan Preminger outlines how we might (re-) discover the radical potential of trade […]

The public value business school

The public value business school

Posted on 11 December 2018 by Martin Kitchener

Cardiff Business School is a reasonably large organisation with 200 academics and around 4,000 students. In our latest post, Professor Martin Kitchener spoke with Your Public Value, an NGO based […]

Jair Bolsonaro: how business elites helped him to power in Brazil – and why they might regret it

Jair Bolsonaro: how business elites helped him to power in Brazil – and why they might regret it

Posted on 30 November 2018 by Heike Doering

Bolsonaro emerged from relative obscurity. Using similar tactics to Donald Trump, he made outrageous comments, amplified by social media, to stoke up fears about urban violence, the destruction of “traditional” moral values […]

Is the tide turning on regulating Facebook and Google?

Is the tide turning on regulating Facebook and Google?

Posted on 6 November 2018 by Leighton Andrews

If Brexit happens, the UK will not be immune from the regulatory tide. In our latest post, Professor Leighton Andrews argues that Facebook and Google are modern utilities – and […]