The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs " You can't fuse yourself " : contemporary British-Asian music and the musical expression of identity Journal Article How to cite: Clayton, Martin (1998). " You can't fuse yourself " : contemporary British-Asian music and the musical expression of identity. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this si...

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Objective. Immigration and the economy were the most salient issues in British politics at the 2010 general election, yet the relationship between them remains unclear. This article questions whether perception of the economic situation influenced hostility to immigration to Britain during the 2010 general election campaign. Method. This article employs a logistic regression model using the 201...

This paper seeks to explain the pattern of industrial investment in India under British rule. While the export oriented industries, such as tea and jute relied largely on British investment, the major import substituting activity, the cotton textile industry, was dominated by Indian owned firms. While the existing literature has explained the dominant role of British investment mainly using pol...

John Weeks is an economist specializing in development economics and macroeconomic issues. He has taught for many years at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he is Professor Emeritus. He has posted in his blog scathing critiques of the economic policy applied by the conservative-liberal government in the United Kingdom. In ‘‘A Brighter Economic Vision for the British Ec...

BACKGROUND This paper outlines the principal characteristics of a learning organisation and the organisational features that define it. It then compares these features with the organisational conditions that currently obtain, or are being created, within the British NHS. The contradictory development of recent British health policy, resulting in the NHS becoming both more marketised and more bu...

Through the examination of one of the most successful cases of a European Community (EC) law litigation strategy, this article develops a general framework for understanding when and how the EC legal system will be successfully used by domestic groups to challenge national policy. The authors show how the European legal system actually shifted the domestic balance of power in favor of equality ...

berthing force is a critical dynamic lateral force in the design of berthing structures, having equal relevance when compared to seismic forces. besides, the construction cost of berthing structures is very high which can be optimized by calculating precise design berthing energy on fender and selecting optimum fender system. in the present study, design berthing energy of bulk carriers having ...