Lucy Vickers
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198268307
- eISBN:
- 9780191683497
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198268307.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This book examines employment law implications for employees who exercise the right to freedom of speech, and argues for increased rights to free speech in this context. Most obviously, employees ...
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This book examines employment law implications for employees who exercise the right to freedom of speech, and argues for increased rights to free speech in this context. Most obviously, employees need protection when speaking about immediate threats to health and safety or serious financial malpractice, but they also need protection when participating in debate on matters that are in the public interest. The book suggests that the rights of employees to participate in debate on matters of public interest are vital to a healthy democratic system. The book begins with a study of the philosophical basis for protecting the right to free speech and considers the extent to which that right should survive entry to the workplace. It establishes a principled basis upon which to determine the proper scope of the employee's right to free speech, taking into account the rights of both employers and employees. The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the law under article 10 ECHR is assessed, together with the question of when the exercise of free speech by an employee breaches the contract of employment. The book contains a detailed treatment of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, the rules on unfair dismissal, and the special position of employees working in the civil service, local government, and the NHS. Throughout the discussion of these issues, an assessment is made of the extent to which the current law complies with the proposed model for protection of employee speech.Less
This book examines employment law implications for employees who exercise the right to freedom of speech, and argues for increased rights to free speech in this context. Most obviously, employees need protection when speaking about immediate threats to health and safety or serious financial malpractice, but they also need protection when participating in debate on matters that are in the public interest. The book suggests that the rights of employees to participate in debate on matters of public interest are vital to a healthy democratic system. The book begins with a study of the philosophical basis for protecting the right to free speech and considers the extent to which that right should survive entry to the workplace. It establishes a principled basis upon which to determine the proper scope of the employee's right to free speech, taking into account the rights of both employers and employees. The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the law under article 10 ECHR is assessed, together with the question of when the exercise of free speech by an employee breaches the contract of employment. The book contains a detailed treatment of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, the rules on unfair dismissal, and the special position of employees working in the civil service, local government, and the NHS. Throughout the discussion of these issues, an assessment is made of the extent to which the current law complies with the proposed model for protection of employee speech.
Lucy Vickers
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198268307
- eISBN:
- 9780191683497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198268307.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter considers the extent to which these various provisions provide adequate employment protection for free speech. Employees who exercise the right to free speech about work may well find ...
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This chapter considers the extent to which these various provisions provide adequate employment protection for free speech. Employees who exercise the right to free speech about work may well find their employers less than pleased. The employer may perceive the employee's action to be disloyal as well as disliking any adverse publicity that results from the speech. In response, the employer may take disciplinary action against the employee, and may even dismiss them. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 extends the law on unfair dismissal to provide automatic protection for employees who raise matters of concern relating to designated types of wrongdoing or malpractice at work. In addition, several statutes, such as the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, provide protection for employees who disclose that their standards are not being met.Less
This chapter considers the extent to which these various provisions provide adequate employment protection for free speech. Employees who exercise the right to free speech about work may well find their employers less than pleased. The employer may perceive the employee's action to be disloyal as well as disliking any adverse publicity that results from the speech. In response, the employer may take disciplinary action against the employee, and may even dismiss them. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 extends the law on unfair dismissal to provide automatic protection for employees who raise matters of concern relating to designated types of wrongdoing or malpractice at work. In addition, several statutes, such as the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, provide protection for employees who disclose that their standards are not being met.
Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan, and Arun K. Thiruvengadam
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198081760
- eISBN:
- 9780199082360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198081760.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This essay revisits a classic work in the field of comparative public interest law, in relation to its conclusions on the potential of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for countries in the global ...
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This essay revisits a classic work in the field of comparative public interest law, in relation to its conclusions on the potential of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for countries in the global South. Published in 1987, The Role of the Judiciary in Plural Societies (ROJ) comprises a selection of academic papers presented at two workshops held in Surajkund, India and Eldoret, Kenya in August 1983 and February 1985 respectively. It addressed the role of judiciaries in aiding public interest law movements in five countries across Asia and Africa. It concluded that judicial activism, encouraged by social action litigation [or PIL], inspired by constitutional values, may be regarded as a vital human technology for social change in impoverished societies. After describing the Indian experience with Public Interest Litigations (PIL) in the last twenty five years, the author outlines the growing discontent among progressives over PIL, and the reasons for such a trend. The author concludes that the judiciary should reformulate its role in PIL by giving up the ‘command-and-control’ methods that have led to some of the gravest problems of contemporary PIL jurisprudence, including those where the judiciary has spurned the interests of the original constituency of PIL. The judiciary should focus on being an ally to strong civil society groups and movements in their attempt to make the processes of Indian democracy more participatory, inclusive, and effective in pursuing the developmental goals enshrined in the Constitution.Less
This essay revisits a classic work in the field of comparative public interest law, in relation to its conclusions on the potential of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for countries in the global South. Published in 1987, The Role of the Judiciary in Plural Societies (ROJ) comprises a selection of academic papers presented at two workshops held in Surajkund, India and Eldoret, Kenya in August 1983 and February 1985 respectively. It addressed the role of judiciaries in aiding public interest law movements in five countries across Asia and Africa. It concluded that judicial activism, encouraged by social action litigation [or PIL], inspired by constitutional values, may be regarded as a vital human technology for social change in impoverished societies. After describing the Indian experience with Public Interest Litigations (PIL) in the last twenty five years, the author outlines the growing discontent among progressives over PIL, and the reasons for such a trend. The author concludes that the judiciary should reformulate its role in PIL by giving up the ‘command-and-control’ methods that have led to some of the gravest problems of contemporary PIL jurisprudence, including those where the judiciary has spurned the interests of the original constituency of PIL. The judiciary should focus on being an ally to strong civil society groups and movements in their attempt to make the processes of Indian democracy more participatory, inclusive, and effective in pursuing the developmental goals enshrined in the Constitution.
Christoph Strünck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447306252
- eISBN:
- 9781447310983
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447306252.003.0015
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Public interest groups in Germany use policy analysis in two crucial ways: They dig out empirical evidence for policy instruments and they seek to frame those instruments preferred. The chapter ...
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Public interest groups in Germany use policy analysis in two crucial ways: They dig out empirical evidence for policy instruments and they seek to frame those instruments preferred. The chapter highlights striking differences between environmental groups and consumer groups by asking: What challenges are linked to evidence-based policy making± How is policy analysis turned into a powerful tool in public debates and political communication± What core functions does policy analysis fulfil for public interest groups in Germany and what are its main shortcomings?Less
Public interest groups in Germany use policy analysis in two crucial ways: They dig out empirical evidence for policy instruments and they seek to frame those instruments preferred. The chapter highlights striking differences between environmental groups and consumer groups by asking: What challenges are linked to evidence-based policy making± How is policy analysis turned into a powerful tool in public debates and political communication± What core functions does policy analysis fulfil for public interest groups in Germany and what are its main shortcomings?
Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, and Zach Ward-Perkins
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526110121
- eISBN:
- 9781526120748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526110121.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
This chapter argues that we need new political and economic institutions which are participatory, inclusive and accessible and sets out some ideas about how this can be achieved. These can be the ...
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This chapter argues that we need new political and economic institutions which are participatory, inclusive and accessible and sets out some ideas about how this can be achieved. These can be the catalyst for the development of a popular democratic culture of public participation in economic discussion and decision making.Less
This chapter argues that we need new political and economic institutions which are participatory, inclusive and accessible and sets out some ideas about how this can be achieved. These can be the catalyst for the development of a popular democratic culture of public participation in economic discussion and decision making.
Jefferson Decker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190467302
- eISBN:
- 9780190600587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190467302.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Political History
The emergence of conservative public-interest law provoked controversy within the American right, where many leading legal intellectuals worried that conservative legal activism threatened ...
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The emergence of conservative public-interest law provoked controversy within the American right, where many leading legal intellectuals worried that conservative legal activism threatened conservative legal principles by asking courts to resolve political disputes. Conservatives, including Kit Bond of Great Plains Legal Foundation and Daniel Popeo of Washington Legal Foundation, began to debate the virtues and vices of public-interest law, shifts in US legal culture, and methods of thinking about the “rights revolution” that was initially sparked by the African American struggle for equality but eventually spread more broadly. At Washington Legal Foundation, Popeo articulated a variety of conservative counter-rights on social, cultural, and foreign policy issues. At Capital Legal Foundation, lawyer Dan Burt argued that conservative legal groups needed to challenge the rules and culture that had allowed public-interest law to flourish in the first place.Less
The emergence of conservative public-interest law provoked controversy within the American right, where many leading legal intellectuals worried that conservative legal activism threatened conservative legal principles by asking courts to resolve political disputes. Conservatives, including Kit Bond of Great Plains Legal Foundation and Daniel Popeo of Washington Legal Foundation, began to debate the virtues and vices of public-interest law, shifts in US legal culture, and methods of thinking about the “rights revolution” that was initially sparked by the African American struggle for equality but eventually spread more broadly. At Washington Legal Foundation, Popeo articulated a variety of conservative counter-rights on social, cultural, and foreign policy issues. At Capital Legal Foundation, lawyer Dan Burt argued that conservative legal groups needed to challenge the rules and culture that had allowed public-interest law to flourish in the first place.
Thomas O. McGarity
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300141245
- eISBN:
- 9780300195217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300141245.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter explains that the statutory changes of the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras came in response to perceived crises in the political economy as manifested in media reports of ...
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This chapter explains that the statutory changes of the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras came in response to perceived crises in the political economy as manifested in media reports of widespread corporate abuses. Guided by the insights of Progressive Era legal realists, state supreme courts abandoned many Laissez Faire Era legal doctrines that limited corporate liability. Cumulatively, the statutes imposed broad obligations on companies to pay far more attention to the impact of their products and activities on their consumers, workers, neighbors, and the environment than they had in the past. Although the changes mandated by the new statutes rarely demanded more than what was already technologically feasible, they greatly improved the lives of most Americans.Less
This chapter explains that the statutory changes of the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras came in response to perceived crises in the political economy as manifested in media reports of widespread corporate abuses. Guided by the insights of Progressive Era legal realists, state supreme courts abandoned many Laissez Faire Era legal doctrines that limited corporate liability. Cumulatively, the statutes imposed broad obligations on companies to pay far more attention to the impact of their products and activities on their consumers, workers, neighbors, and the environment than they had in the past. Although the changes mandated by the new statutes rarely demanded more than what was already technologically feasible, they greatly improved the lives of most Americans.
Joe Earle, Cahal Moral, and Zach Ward-Perkins
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526110121
- eISBN:
- 9781526120748
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526110121.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
One hundred years ago the idea of ‘the economy’ didn’t exist. Now, improving ‘the economy’ has come to be seen as one of the most important tasks facing modern societies. Politics and policymaking ...
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One hundred years ago the idea of ‘the economy’ didn’t exist. Now, improving ‘the economy’ has come to be seen as one of the most important tasks facing modern societies. Politics and policymaking are increasingly conducted in the language of economics and economic logic increasingly frames how political problems are defined and addressed. The result is that crucial societal functions are outsourced to economic experts. The econocracy is about how this particular way of thinking about economies and economics has come to dominate many modern societies and its damaging consequences. We have put experts in charge but those experts are not fit for purpose.
A growing movement is arguing that we should redefine the relationship between society and economics. Across the world, students, the economists of the future, are rebelling against their education. From three members of this movement comes a book that tries to open up the black box of economic decision making to public scrutiny. We show how a particular form of economics has come to dominate in universities across the UK and has thus shaped our understanding of the economy. We document the weaknesses of this form of economics and how it has failed to address many important issues such as financial stability, environmental sustainability and inequality; and we set out a vision for how we can bring economic discussion and decision making back into the public sphere to ensure the societies of the future can flourish.Less
One hundred years ago the idea of ‘the economy’ didn’t exist. Now, improving ‘the economy’ has come to be seen as one of the most important tasks facing modern societies. Politics and policymaking are increasingly conducted in the language of economics and economic logic increasingly frames how political problems are defined and addressed. The result is that crucial societal functions are outsourced to economic experts. The econocracy is about how this particular way of thinking about economies and economics has come to dominate many modern societies and its damaging consequences. We have put experts in charge but those experts are not fit for purpose.
A growing movement is arguing that we should redefine the relationship between society and economics. Across the world, students, the economists of the future, are rebelling against their education. From three members of this movement comes a book that tries to open up the black box of economic decision making to public scrutiny. We show how a particular form of economics has come to dominate in universities across the UK and has thus shaped our understanding of the economy. We document the weaknesses of this form of economics and how it has failed to address many important issues such as financial stability, environmental sustainability and inequality; and we set out a vision for how we can bring economic discussion and decision making back into the public sphere to ensure the societies of the future can flourish.
Thomas O. McGarity
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300141245
- eISBN:
- 9780300195217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300141245.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter focuses on the three assaults on regulation, highlighting the efforts in the executive branch to rein-in the regulatory agencies, and in Congress to pass omnibus regulatory reform ...
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This chapter focuses on the three assaults on regulation, highlighting the efforts in the executive branch to rein-in the regulatory agencies, and in Congress to pass omnibus regulatory reform legislation. The assaults proceeded along many dimensions as the business community's influence infrastructure pressed Congress to repeal or substantially rewrite protective statutes and, failing that, to enact legislation designed to slow down or hamstring the regulatory agencies as they promulgated the regulations needed to implement those statutes. At the same time, they pressed the White House to impose cumbersome procedural and analytical restrictions on executive branch agencies. Headed by political appointees who were unsympathetic to their statutory missions, the agencies abandoned the proactive approaches that they employed during the Public Interest Era and assumed a reactive posture.Less
This chapter focuses on the three assaults on regulation, highlighting the efforts in the executive branch to rein-in the regulatory agencies, and in Congress to pass omnibus regulatory reform legislation. The assaults proceeded along many dimensions as the business community's influence infrastructure pressed Congress to repeal or substantially rewrite protective statutes and, failing that, to enact legislation designed to slow down or hamstring the regulatory agencies as they promulgated the regulations needed to implement those statutes. At the same time, they pressed the White House to impose cumbersome procedural and analytical restrictions on executive branch agencies. Headed by political appointees who were unsympathetic to their statutory missions, the agencies abandoned the proactive approaches that they employed during the Public Interest Era and assumed a reactive posture.
Paula Chakravartty and Katharine Sarikakis
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748618491
- eISBN:
- 9780748670970
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748618491.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter provides an overview of telecommunications policy reform primarily focusing on experiences in the global South, with an emphasis on the political and economic context of Brazil, China ...
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This chapter provides an overview of telecommunications policy reform primarily focusing on experiences in the global South, with an emphasis on the political and economic context of Brazil, China and India. It examines both the dramatic pace of policy reform in these rapidly growing economies, as well as on the politicization over the reform process to reflect public questioning, if not discontent, over the terms of reform pushed by corporate interests. It highglights the tensions between realms of technocratic "expert" governance and public claims to account for corruption and inequality across multiple social divides, including rural-urban, class, race (caste) and gender.Less
This chapter provides an overview of telecommunications policy reform primarily focusing on experiences in the global South, with an emphasis on the political and economic context of Brazil, China and India. It examines both the dramatic pace of policy reform in these rapidly growing economies, as well as on the politicization over the reform process to reflect public questioning, if not discontent, over the terms of reform pushed by corporate interests. It highglights the tensions between realms of technocratic "expert" governance and public claims to account for corruption and inequality across multiple social divides, including rural-urban, class, race (caste) and gender.
Patrick Shade and John Lachs
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823256747
- eISBN:
- 9780823261390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256747.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
Lachs argues that liberty is a relevant idea in addressing technological advances concerning organ transplant. Arguing that the poor have a right to make use of their bodies in securing wealth, he ...
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Lachs argues that liberty is a relevant idea in addressing technological advances concerning organ transplant. Arguing that the poor have a right to make use of their bodies in securing wealth, he contends that the government has no right to interfere with the sale of skills and bodies, so long as this activity does not harm others.Less
Lachs argues that liberty is a relevant idea in addressing technological advances concerning organ transplant. Arguing that the poor have a right to make use of their bodies in securing wealth, he contends that the government has no right to interfere with the sale of skills and bodies, so long as this activity does not harm others.
Claire McDiarmid
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845860127
- eISBN:
- 9781474406147
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860127.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This book is a treatise on youth justice which examines the treatment, by the criminal law and the criminal justice system, of children who commit serious crimes. It draws on legal, philosophical and ...
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This book is a treatise on youth justice which examines the treatment, by the criminal law and the criminal justice system, of children who commit serious crimes. It draws on legal, philosophical and Childhood Studies literature to look at the interaction between law and childhood and considers a number of cases, including the murder of James Bulger in 1993 through these lenses, noting the difficulties for legal systems, of accommodating individuals who are, simultaneously, both “child” and “criminal”. The law’s impulse is to protect children and to call to account and punish offenders – aims which sometimes conflict. Other areas of law encounter similar difficulties in the tension between the child’s need for protection and for the nurture of his/her growing autonomy. Drawing on its discussion of this child-criminal paradox, the book examines two examples of the law’s response to children who offend: the age of criminal responsibility and the doli incapax presumption. It proceeds to argue that, in every case, a thorough investigation of the child’s criminal capacity, drawing on developmental psychology, is necessary to provide a fair and rational basis for decisions on responsibility and disposal in respect of such children. It presents a model for achieving this. It also examines the existing response of the Scottish legal system to such children, both in the courts, and through the children’s hearings system. Overall, the argument is for a fair and compassionate approach which takes account of the public interest and the need for public confidence in the criminal justice system.Less
This book is a treatise on youth justice which examines the treatment, by the criminal law and the criminal justice system, of children who commit serious crimes. It draws on legal, philosophical and Childhood Studies literature to look at the interaction between law and childhood and considers a number of cases, including the murder of James Bulger in 1993 through these lenses, noting the difficulties for legal systems, of accommodating individuals who are, simultaneously, both “child” and “criminal”. The law’s impulse is to protect children and to call to account and punish offenders – aims which sometimes conflict. Other areas of law encounter similar difficulties in the tension between the child’s need for protection and for the nurture of his/her growing autonomy. Drawing on its discussion of this child-criminal paradox, the book examines two examples of the law’s response to children who offend: the age of criminal responsibility and the doli incapax presumption. It proceeds to argue that, in every case, a thorough investigation of the child’s criminal capacity, drawing on developmental psychology, is necessary to provide a fair and rational basis for decisions on responsibility and disposal in respect of such children. It presents a model for achieving this. It also examines the existing response of the Scottish legal system to such children, both in the courts, and through the children’s hearings system. Overall, the argument is for a fair and compassionate approach which takes account of the public interest and the need for public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Rob Merkin and Jenny Steele
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199645749
- eISBN:
- 9780191747823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199645749.003.0009
- Subject:
- Law, Law of Obligations
Explores the phenomenon of compulsory liability insurance in general, and specifically the nature of compulsory insurance in relation to road traffic liabilities, and employers’ liability to ...
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Explores the phenomenon of compulsory liability insurance in general, and specifically the nature of compulsory insurance in relation to road traffic liabilities, and employers’ liability to employees. Explains that much of tort law operates on the basis that insurance is in place, whether required or simply widespread. Charts the forms of compulsory insurance in operation and explains the variables which affect their significance. Explores the operation of compulsory motor insurance, and identifies the influence of European law. Discusses the way in which responsibility has been transformed, and potential impacts on legal principle. Explores the history and nature of employers’ liability insurance, pointing out the long-standing legislative interest in securing liabilities through insurance, and the influence of employers’ liability on the early development of liability insurance business. Identifies the relatively weak protection offered by employers’ liability legislation, but sets this in the context of many years of legislative activity.Less
Explores the phenomenon of compulsory liability insurance in general, and specifically the nature of compulsory insurance in relation to road traffic liabilities, and employers’ liability to employees. Explains that much of tort law operates on the basis that insurance is in place, whether required or simply widespread. Charts the forms of compulsory insurance in operation and explains the variables which affect their significance. Explores the operation of compulsory motor insurance, and identifies the influence of European law. Discusses the way in which responsibility has been transformed, and potential impacts on legal principle. Explores the history and nature of employers’ liability insurance, pointing out the long-standing legislative interest in securing liabilities through insurance, and the influence of employers’ liability on the early development of liability insurance business. Identifies the relatively weak protection offered by employers’ liability legislation, but sets this in the context of many years of legislative activity.
Ajit Singh, Gurmail Singh, David Bailey, and Helena Lenihan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198706205
- eISBN:
- 9780191775307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198706205.003.0018
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter explores the literature on the market for corporate control and takeovers before offering some suggestions as to how takeover policy might be developed in the UK context. The chapter ...
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This chapter explores the literature on the market for corporate control and takeovers before offering some suggestions as to how takeover policy might be developed in the UK context. The chapter examines the dynamics of takeovers and mergers by charting six great historical takeover ‘waves’. It examines why takeover waves occur, and why they rise and fall. It then examines the market for corporate control in civil law and non-civil law countries before discussing the determinant of share prices, the market for corporate control, and nature of the takeover mechanism. It finishes by examining the recent debates on takeover policy stimulated by the Cadbury and AstraZeneca cases, before offering some suggestions as to how takeover policy might be developed through ‘throwing some sand’ in the wheels of the takeover machine and the adoption of a new ‘Public Interest Test’.Less
This chapter explores the literature on the market for corporate control and takeovers before offering some suggestions as to how takeover policy might be developed in the UK context. The chapter examines the dynamics of takeovers and mergers by charting six great historical takeover ‘waves’. It examines why takeover waves occur, and why they rise and fall. It then examines the market for corporate control in civil law and non-civil law countries before discussing the determinant of share prices, the market for corporate control, and nature of the takeover mechanism. It finishes by examining the recent debates on takeover policy stimulated by the Cadbury and AstraZeneca cases, before offering some suggestions as to how takeover policy might be developed through ‘throwing some sand’ in the wheels of the takeover machine and the adoption of a new ‘Public Interest Test’.
Thomas O. McGarity
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300141245
- eISBN:
- 9780300195217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300141245.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter describes how a safe and efficient transportation system is essential to a healthy modern economy. The governmental infrastructure that Congress established during the Progressive, New ...
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This chapter describes how a safe and efficient transportation system is essential to a healthy modern economy. The governmental infrastructure that Congress established during the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras for regulating transportation safety could not eliminate all transportation accidents or even all transportation-related disasters, but it had the potential, if effectively implemented, to reduce the frequency of accidents and the extent of the resulting human carnage. By the end of the Public Interest Era, the federal government was well positioned to regulate the safety of transportation. As the population and the economy of the United States grew during the Laissez Faire Revival, the reality of safety regulation in the rapidly evolving transportation sector did not match its great potential.Less
This chapter describes how a safe and efficient transportation system is essential to a healthy modern economy. The governmental infrastructure that Congress established during the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras for regulating transportation safety could not eliminate all transportation accidents or even all transportation-related disasters, but it had the potential, if effectively implemented, to reduce the frequency of accidents and the extent of the resulting human carnage. By the end of the Public Interest Era, the federal government was well positioned to regulate the safety of transportation. As the population and the economy of the United States grew during the Laissez Faire Revival, the reality of safety regulation in the rapidly evolving transportation sector did not match its great potential.
Thomas O. McGarity
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300141245
- eISBN:
- 9780300195217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300141245.003.0017
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter explains the institutional impact of the three assaults on the protective governmental infrastructure. The tendency of agencies to become captured by regulated interests and the related ...
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This chapter explains the institutional impact of the three assaults on the protective governmental infrastructure. The tendency of agencies to become captured by regulated interests and the related revolving door between agency and industry employment are longstanding problems that predate the Laissez Faire Revival. As companies found ways around existing regulatory restrictions during the Laissez Faire Revival, serious gaps in the protective governmental infrastructure became apparent. A conciliatory federal enforcement apparatus stressed accommodation over vigorous prosecution, and an emasculated civil justice system was far less inclined to hold companies accountable for the harmful consequences of their products and activities than it had been during the Public Interest Era. Private sector actors acquired greater freedom to pursue their economic goals without regard to the risks that their products and activities posed to their consumers, their workers, their neighbors, or the environment.Less
This chapter explains the institutional impact of the three assaults on the protective governmental infrastructure. The tendency of agencies to become captured by regulated interests and the related revolving door between agency and industry employment are longstanding problems that predate the Laissez Faire Revival. As companies found ways around existing regulatory restrictions during the Laissez Faire Revival, serious gaps in the protective governmental infrastructure became apparent. A conciliatory federal enforcement apparatus stressed accommodation over vigorous prosecution, and an emasculated civil justice system was far less inclined to hold companies accountable for the harmful consequences of their products and activities than it had been during the Public Interest Era. Private sector actors acquired greater freedom to pursue their economic goals without regard to the risks that their products and activities posed to their consumers, their workers, their neighbors, or the environment.
James L. Newell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780719088919
- eISBN:
- 9781526138729
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088919.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Low and declining levels of trust in politicians, prompted in part by perceptions that they are too often to be found engaged in corruption and other forms of wrong-doing has in recent years turned ...
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Low and declining levels of trust in politicians, prompted in part by perceptions that they are too often to be found engaged in corruption and other forms of wrong-doing has in recent years turned corruption itself into a high-profile political issue. Against this background, the chapter considers what political corruption is, or might be, for the study of anything requires having a clear understanding of its nature. Then it discusses the different types of corruption to be found, and finally it says something about why their study might be important. The chapter argues that, understood as the adulteration of public by private interests, corruption is a relatively modern notion; suggests that it is possible to distinguish between four types of corruption understood in principal-agent terms, and makes the case that corruption is, as an object of study, important for its incidence and its effects.Less
Low and declining levels of trust in politicians, prompted in part by perceptions that they are too often to be found engaged in corruption and other forms of wrong-doing has in recent years turned corruption itself into a high-profile political issue. Against this background, the chapter considers what political corruption is, or might be, for the study of anything requires having a clear understanding of its nature. Then it discusses the different types of corruption to be found, and finally it says something about why their study might be important. The chapter argues that, understood as the adulteration of public by private interests, corruption is a relatively modern notion; suggests that it is possible to distinguish between four types of corruption understood in principal-agent terms, and makes the case that corruption is, as an object of study, important for its incidence and its effects.
Suzanne Bourgeois
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520276079
- eISBN:
- 9780520956599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520276079.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Biology raises numerous issues that have social and humanistic implications. Bronowski arranged visits of the linguist Roman Jakobson, which are the origin of language studies at the institute. ...
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Biology raises numerous issues that have social and humanistic implications. Bronowski arranged visits of the linguist Roman Jakobson, which are the origin of language studies at the institute. Bronowski was also director of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs (CBHA), created by Slater to examine the consequences of progress in biology. The CBHA made available special postdoctoral fellowships to Michael Jacobson, who founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and to Michael Crichton, the science-fiction writer. It promoted study groups in the areas of parasitic diseases and of bioethics of gene manipulations. It sponsored a visiting fellowship for Edgar Morin that led to the creation of the Centre Royaumont pour une Science de L’Homme.Less
Biology raises numerous issues that have social and humanistic implications. Bronowski arranged visits of the linguist Roman Jakobson, which are the origin of language studies at the institute. Bronowski was also director of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs (CBHA), created by Slater to examine the consequences of progress in biology. The CBHA made available special postdoctoral fellowships to Michael Jacobson, who founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and to Michael Crichton, the science-fiction writer. It promoted study groups in the areas of parasitic diseases and of bioethics of gene manipulations. It sponsored a visiting fellowship for Edgar Morin that led to the creation of the Centre Royaumont pour une Science de L’Homme.
Ismael M. Montana
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813044828
- eISBN:
- 9780813046419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813044828.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Chapter 7 evaluates the variety of intellectual, political, and economic reactions to the final abolition of slavery among the various groups (from the merchant class to ordinary people) involved in ...
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Chapter 7 evaluates the variety of intellectual, political, and economic reactions to the final abolition of slavery among the various groups (from the merchant class to ordinary people) involved in the trade. These divergent responses to the emancipation decree are then situated within the broader developments shaping the end of slavery in Tunisia.Less
Chapter 7 evaluates the variety of intellectual, political, and economic reactions to the final abolition of slavery among the various groups (from the merchant class to ordinary people) involved in the trade. These divergent responses to the emancipation decree are then situated within the broader developments shaping the end of slavery in Tunisia.
Claire McDiarmid
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845860127
- eISBN:
- 9781474406147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860127.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This chapter draws together all of the themes of the book reflecting on the concept of childhood and the consequences of viewing it only as a preparation for adulthood rather than a status in its own ...
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This chapter draws together all of the themes of the book reflecting on the concept of childhood and the consequences of viewing it only as a preparation for adulthood rather than a status in its own right. It reiterates arguments from throughout the book that fairness to the child-accused and the public interest must always be balanced and that the best way to achieve this is for courts to undertake a proper and thorough examination of the actual understanding of the crime in its context and its consequences held by the individual child. It looks at ways in which this might be achieved drawing on extant procedures in relation to mentally disordered defendants.Less
This chapter draws together all of the themes of the book reflecting on the concept of childhood and the consequences of viewing it only as a preparation for adulthood rather than a status in its own right. It reiterates arguments from throughout the book that fairness to the child-accused and the public interest must always be balanced and that the best way to achieve this is for courts to undertake a proper and thorough examination of the actual understanding of the crime in its context and its consequences held by the individual child. It looks at ways in which this might be achieved drawing on extant procedures in relation to mentally disordered defendants.
