This paper examines how and why the Norwegian government’s early handling of Covid-19 pandemic became constructed as a centre–periphery issue in public discourse. By analysing opinion pieces editorials published North regional newspaper during first months outbreak, it identifies ‘northern peripherality’ discourse emerged highlighted geographical, infrastructural political peripheralization pro...

In recent years we have noticed an increase in the turn to rights analysis in litigation relating to access to health care. Examining litigation, we can notice a contradiction between on the one hand the ability of the right to health to reinforce privatization and commodification of health care, by rearticulating claims to private health care in terms of human rights, and on the other hand, it...

Partnership has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to privatization and government–nonprofit relations generally. While in principle it offers many advantages, there is no consensus on what it means and its practice varies. Following a review of partnership literature, the article refines the partnership concept, developing two definitional dimensions: mutuality and organization identi...

The concept of ‘place’ can play a powerful role in understanding how leadership is socially constructed. This article explores the geographic, symbolic and mythic uses place cultivation distinct style around Presidency John F. Kennedy. It focuses on history social learning event that today might be called development programme: ‘Hickory Hill Seminars’ 1961-4, named after mostly held at specific...

This study aims to determine the media transformation carried out by Kompas TV using concept of mediamorphosis, which Roger Fidler initiated. The question in this research is how process coevolution, convergence, and complexity TV. type qualitative uses content analysis. object communication accessed through kompas.tv.com. indicates that has changed its image brand provides digital optimization...

The British government’s Prevent Duty puts an obligation on specified public sectors to “keep people from being drawn into terrorism”. policy has been a point of contention within the discourse, but interview data shows that there is grudging consent for policing amongst civilians implementing it. This article explores how this manufactured and what tells us about changing nature counter-terror...

The introduction of open government has been used in many countries to improve the transparency, accountability state, and promote participation by citizens collaborative governance. Its potential for public services improvement, citizen empowerment, a positive impact on reducing corruption have attracted scholarly attention. Set alongside this, initiatives facilitated greater access informatio...

The reform era has been associated with the waning authority of Chinese Communist Party in urban society. While existing studies have investigated Party’s self-reinvention through incorporation into its ranks professional groups and new socioeconomic elite, much less attention given to how rebuilt presence neighborhoods among residents migrant communities. Drawing on a case study Kunming, this ...

he development of the Russian federal system has been marked by conflict, co-optation, and consensus. Emerging from the generally unitary Russian republic within a formally federal but largely unitary Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia began its development as a federal system with little experience and few institutional structures salvageable from the earlier system. The patchwork Soviet-era con...

This study turns to the pathway of change whereby an originally intransitive manner-of-speaking predicate (e.g. babble, whisper, shout) comes function in parenthetical clauses as a direct speech reporting predicate. On descriptive plane, paper presents detailed analysis recent developments affecting shriek Early and Late Modern English. The case presented here does not involve standardly assume...