Building research-capacity is an important element in the contemporary political economy of social science research. For example, the principal funding body, the ESRC, continues to invest substantially in the development of researchcapacity through, for example, its Research Methods Programme and its recently announced National Centre for Research Methods, to be located at Southampton Universit...

Purpose – Managing and maintaining infrastructure assets are one of the indispensible tasks for many government agencies to preserve the nations’ economic viability and social welfare. To reduce the expenditures over the life-cycle of an infrastructure asset and extend the period for which the asset performs effectively, proper repair and maintenance are essential. While repair, maintenance, mi...

The U.S. social safety net is formed by governmental and nonprofit organizations, which are trying to respond to record levels of need. This is especially true for local level organizations, such as food pantries. The organizational capacity literature has not covered front-line, local, mostly volunteer and low resource organizations in the same depth as larger ones. This analysis is a consider...

This study uses content analysis and visual representation methods to explore how multiculturalism is displayed on the websites of agencies providing social care for the aged. These agencies use strategically planned texts to portray multicultural categories of inclusion, diversity and individuality; and emphasize the text referents through ethno-related pictures as universal equivalence symbol...

This paper considers a hypothetical government-run credit rating agency with a “fixed compensation” scheme. Taking as granted the fact that investors ascribe higher value for highly rated assets, the model attempts to see whether government intervention can lead to a more socially desirable solution. The model features a free rating agent who can either choose to work for the government agency ...

Collaborative, family-centered practice has become an influential approach in helping efforts across a broad spectrum of human services. This article draws from previous work that presented a principle-based, practice framework of Collaborative Helping and highlighted the use of Collaborative Helping maps as a tool both to help workers think their way through complex situations and to provide a...