{"title":"‘Uni-Culti’ Myths and Liberal Dreams:","authors":"Magdalena Nowicka","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121967885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit","authors":"Tom Montgomery, M. Grasso","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.9","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this chapter is to better understand the dynamics that are (re-)shaping the political environment of the UK where austerity has widened inequalities across income, wealth, and geographies. It outlines the specific nature of austerity in the UK by addressing those policies and discourses that have led to welfare retrenchment at a time when constraints on the agency of various vulnerable groups have increased. Drawing upon unique survey data from the UK with approximately 2000 participants, the chapter analyses attitudes towards austerity and the disposition that UK citizens have towards specific repertoires of action such as protest and demonstration. It also focuses upon the referendum on membership of the European Union which set in motion a chain of events that continues to dominate the political discourse of the UK. Drawing upon the findings the chapter provides a timely and novel insight into the political fault lines that have come to define the politics of Brexit Britain.","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123805462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy","authors":"K. Stolz","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.19","url":null,"abstract":"In the last fifty years, the UK has seen considerable political divergence between its constituent nations, especially between Scotland and England. This observation applies both to the constitutional debate, including the question of EU membership, as well as to many policy issues, such as the orientation of successive British governments towards austerity. In the Scottish Brexit debate both these aspects have come together potentially providing the trigger for the final break-up of an increasingly disunited Kingdom. The first part of this chapter traces diverging Scottish attitudes towards EC/EU membership and towards fiscal austerity since the early 1970s. The second part concentrates on the Scottish debate during the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016. The third and last part deals with Scotland’s ability to exert agency during the Brexit negotiations and the potential implications of Brexit for Scotland.","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131580953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services","authors":"S. Griffiths","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the ‘contracting state’ under Cameron, and reviews developments in three major public services since 2010: health, education and welfare, paying attention to the way in which these reforms affect the agency of the people who rely on these services. The Conservative-led coalition that was elected in 2010 made deep cuts to public spending in an effort to bring down the deficit, which they argued would restore economic growth. In practice, sluggish growth over the next few years meant that the cuts to public spending and services were less harsh than planned. However, the distributional effect of the cuts was uneven, with lower income, working-age households suffering disproportionally. In England and Wales, in organisational terms, austerity meant an extension of quasi-market reforms – particularly in health and education – that had been a feature of UK public administration since the 1980s. Pressure to cut public spending was also passed down to local government, ‘hollowing out’ a significant area of public provision and constraining their agency.","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124002834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contested BritainPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.46692/9781529205015.006
S. Truxal
{"title":"Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: The Case of Legal Aid","authors":"S. Truxal","doi":"10.46692/9781529205015.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529205015.006","url":null,"abstract":"In austerity Britain, the contested policies that cut legal aid funding and court system financing threaten justice and the rule of law, the very core of the British judicial system, which is admired and respected worldwide. Thus, it is necessary to identify and to analyse critically policies that affect law and justice, the impacts of such policies and resistance to them. This chapter explores changes to legal aid and justice financing as well as reversals, government justifications for changes and the response of the judiciary and lawyers as a basis for its reflective narrative on the state of the judicial system. As a case study of the wider debate on austerity-through-policy in Britain, the chapter reviews recent legal aid reform and so-called ‘discount justice’ in England and Wales. Particular focus is given to the impact, or likely impact, austerity policies have on the availability of legal aid for criminal cases, and the uncertain future of public spending on justice.","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124047645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than the Border?","authors":"K. Bean","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvz938gw.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262792,"journal":{"name":"Contested Britain","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132209334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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