Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK
When I was a student, I had teachers who spoke about opportunities to study abroad in terms of things like the ability to widen one’s emotional and intellectual horizon.To today’s hardboiled politicians, journalists, and academic managers, these views must seem quaint and laughable.
The CSR Agenda: Part 4 of 5
On Tuesday, Forbes published a case study about a corporate social responsibility strategy that spelled the difference between life and death: Around […]
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)
Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.
The CSR Agenda: Part 3 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we continue our series on corporate social responsibility with top-tier research that answers key questions in the debate. Have […]
The CSR Agenda: Part 2 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we continue our series on corporate social responsibility, presenting top-tier research that answers key questions in the debate. Be […]
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)
In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge […]
The Decline of Public Debates About Higher Education in Britain
Just a few years ago, critical voices could still speak through mainstream media to highlight the dangers of the quickly accelerating commercialisation of academia. These commentators have now been pushed to the margins.
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)
If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.
