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Public procurement and public services in the EU (2012)
Book Chapter
Bovis, C. (2012). Public procurement and public services in the EU. In I. Lianos, & O. Odudu (Eds.), Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO: Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration (147-170). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139022118.008

Introduction The regulation of public procurement has been an instrumental component of the EU Common Market, as it has provided a platform for economic, legal and policy justifications in order to eliminate non-tariff barriers. Public procurement in... Read More about Public procurement and public services in the EU.

Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility (2012)
Book Chapter
Morris, J., & Wheeler, N. (2012). Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State : Regression (175-192). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_11

The welfare of people and their division into states are inextricably linked. As Robert Jackson observes, about at least one thing most political theorists agree: If the good life is to be obtained in this mortal world it can only be obtained within... Read More about Human welfare in a world of states: reassessing the balance of responsibility.

Expanding the role of civil society in Britain and beyond (2012)
Book Chapter
Monaghan, E. (2012). Expanding the role of civil society in Britain and beyond. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State : Regression (37-51). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_3

© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012. The social, political and economic changes that indicate a withering of the welfare state have, as well as changing the relationship between the state and the economy, also brough... Read More about Expanding the role of civil society in Britain and beyond.

Turned into body by the other (2012)
Book Chapter
Burwood, S. (2012). Turned into body by the other. In S. Gonzalez-Arnal, G. Jagger, & K. Lennon (Eds.), Embodied selves (119-138). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283696_8

Jean Améry’s autobiographical account of torture at the hands of the Gestapo provides the most striking, if also the most harrowing, example of how the body resurfaces in conscious awareness due to pain and how such experiences often reveal an ambigu... Read More about Turned into body by the other.

Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom (2012)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., & Kythreotis, A. P. (2012). Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 30(3), 381-399. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11810

This paper seeks to address the way the politics of sustainability governance is spatially organised and contested by voluntary and community sector (VCS) groups in the United Kingdom. Using the research lens of the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP),... Read More about Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom.