Purpose: Telecommunications comprises a vital component of information infrastructures and services, with an historically strong public interest dimension. For the best part of 30 years, the telecommunications sector in Europe has been the subject of a radical reorganisation in structural and operational terms along the lines of neo-liberalism. This article analyses the significance of the neo-...

This paper provides an article-length overview of the first half of a book manuscript that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. It is not intended to be a stand-alone piece; there are some loose ends in the paper that are addressed elsewhere in the larger manuscript. Nevertheless, the paper sketches out the core arguments from the first half of the book about party system transformat...

The international health gap is widening. The lagging health status of poor countries is largely due to the lack of material resources and barriers to economic development. The lack of resources and barriers to development reflect the dynamics of a single integrated global system, the New World Order, which is structured in a way that discriminates against the poor countries. The structured unf...

‘Empowerment’ is a term much used by policy makers with an interest in improving service delivery and promoting different forms of neighbourhood governance. But the term is ambiguous and has no generally accepted definition. Indeed, there is a growing paradox between the rhetoric of community empowerment and an apparent shift towards increased centralisation of power away from the neighbourhood...

The current Covid-19 pandemic, and before that, the environmental crisis due to climate change, raise major questions about relationship between science society. More than ever, public opinions in OCDE countries question legitimacy of scientists scientific knowledge. reasons for this fracture are obviously multiple complex, but we believe that applying neoliberalism principles research has cont...

Neoliberal logic and institutional lethargy may well explain part of the reason why governments pay little attention to how their economic and development policies negatively affect health outcomes associated with the global diffusion of unhealthy commodities. In calling attention to this the authors encourage health advocates to consider strategies other than just regu...