Scotland: All Change?

Constitutional change and inequality in Scotland

What scope does a sub-national economy have to affect the level of inequality? Does a policy menu consistent with the theories of fiscal federalism provide for an ability to affect inequality measures, or does this ability require the powers of a nation state? In this paper we discuss these questions in the context of the debate around the Scottish independence referendum, in which inequality h...

"All change ...".

1948: 1972: 1994. Will these dates be remembered by future social historians as important points of change in the progress of health care organization in the United Kingdom? Perhaps some future student of the economics of health promotion, or death prevention, or whatever it may be called, will consult the Ulster Medical Journal to see what contemporary Ulster doctors were thinking on these top...

All change.

Educational change in Scotland : Policy , context and biography

The poor success rate of policy for curriculum change has been widely noted in the educational change literature. Part of the problem lies in the complexity of schools, as policymakers have proven unable to micromanage the multifarious range of factors that impact upon the implementation of policy. This paper draws upon empirical data from a local authority-led initiative to implement Scotland’...

Slow pace of dietary change in Scotland: 2001-9.

Monitoring changes in the food and nutrient intake of a nation is important for informing the design and evaluation of policy. Surveys of household food consumption have been carried out annually in the UK since 1940 and, despite some changes over the years 1940-2000, the method used for the Expenditure and Food Survey (Living Costs and Food Survey from 2008) has been fundamentally the same sin...