Abstract By the early 1990s, core executive was established as ‘new orthodoxy’ in study of British government at centre. Thirty years on, this article avers that its main assumptions are increasingly questionable light more recent empirical evidence. The approach may well have outlived usefulness. This claim is derived from analysis Cameron premiership 2010 to 2016. focus on how Whitehall refor...

Using a dataset of over 1.6 million inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) from 1990 through 2010, we explore the determinants of inspection and enforcement outcomes. OSHA is an institutionally split agency, with the federal agency conducting inspections in 25 states and state agencies conducting inspections in the remaining 25. The geographic variety and range over 21 ...

The functioning of the convention collective ministerial responsibility in British government during period 2010–19 is assessed by examining, turn: convention's historical context, its operation 2010–15 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, and application 2015–19 extraordinary circumstances Brexit fissures. key variables causal factors which historically affected implementation c...

Recent contributions by Collins, Evans, Jasanoff and Wynne to the discussion of how science and technology studies (STS) might contribute to understanding ‘subpolitics’ – the complex, expert knowledge-intensive and distributed political issues technological societies have to deal with – and involvement of STS scholars in experiments to extend public participation in decision-making about scienc...

introduction population growth and immigration are major causes of the most social changes in rural areas. accordingly, political change in a country is inevitable. so, this issue of iran’s rural settlements adopted and evolves. the rural habitations with population changes, the intensity of the positive effects of decentralization are receiving. your changes have been noted as being the basis ...