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Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-1982 by Umut Özsu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 348 pp
No full textCare poverty and unmet needs: inequalities in theory and practice
No full textAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address the inadequate and unequal provision of care and support to older and disabled people. This book represents the first collective effort to use the concept of care poverty to analyse unmet needs and inequalities in care at an international level and from a social policy perspective. It presents pioneering empirical studies and novel theoretical and methodological approaches to unmet needs and care poverty. This volume points the way forward for international care research and, in particular, for the growing field of research on inadequate care and support
Introduction: unmet care needs and care poverty in international perspective
No full textThis introductory chapter presents the background, aims, key concepts and structure of the book. Based on a collaboration of social policy researchers from a range of countries and welfare settings, the book reviews and synthesises the state of the art of research on unmet care needs of older and disabled people. It brings together not only the empirical evidence but also the theoretical and methodological approaches of this growing strand of research literature. This empirical, theoretical and methodological knowledge is then framed and discussed under a new concept, that of care poverty, which highlights the structural basis and inequality dimension of the lack of adequate care and support. The book explores the relevance and potential of this approach for research and policy in different social and cultural contexts
A spatio-temporal analysis of house prices in Brunei Darussalam
No full textThis paper presents the first spatio-temporal analysis of property prices in Brunei Darussalam, a small, resource-rich economy with distinct housing market characteristics. Despite global interest in quantitative housing market analyses, Brunei’s market remains underexplored, with prior studies predominantly qualitative. Addressing this gap, N=3763 residential transactions from 2015 to 2023 were analysed using Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) priors to model spatial dependencies and temporal trends in house prices accounting for other price determinants. Emerging Hotspot Analysis was then employed to classify price clustering across time. Key findings revealed significant spatial autocorrelation (ρ=0.43) and temporal persistence best modeled by an autoregressive structure of order two, indicating that market reactions to changes can extend up to 6 months. The results demonstrate the critical role of spatial and temporal factors in shaping property prices, providing actionable insights for policy interventions and real estate market analysis, particularly in addressing disparities between urban and rural housing markets
Benson, Jonathan. Intelligent democracy answering the new democratic scepticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $90.00 (cloth).
No full textThe impact of community health care services on the mental health of older adults in China
No full textBackground: Population aging is the predominant global demographic trend of the contemporary era. However, the mental health of many older adults is not as good as it could be. Ensuring the rights and well-being of older adults is crucial for achieving sustainable and healthy aging. Numerous countries have implemented healthcare integration services tailored to their unique contexts. In 2016, China initiated community health care services for older adults. Methods: We used panel data derived from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study from 2015 to 2018 and analyses were performed using STATA, version 17. Our study employed a difference-in-differences model to assess the association of community health care services with mental health of older adults and conducted a placebo test to assess the reliability of the difference-in-differences model estimations. Additionally, subgroup regression analyses were conducted to investigate whether community health care services exert differing effects on the mental well-being of older adults across subgroups by sex, age groups, and education level. Results: Community health care services significantly improved depression levels and cognitive function in older adults. Notably, these services exerted a more pronounced effect on alleviating depression symptoms among male older adults and more positively affected cognitive function among female older adults. Additionally, the services demonstrated greater effectiveness in improving both depression levels and cognitive function among older adults with lower educational attainment, while maintaining positive impacts on younger older adults. Conclusions: Community health care services played a crucial role in enhancing the mental health of older adults, with varying degrees of impact across demographic groups. Our study underscores the importance of such services in promoting healthy aging and provides a foundation for the further development of hierarchical community health care services. This development is conducive to advancing community health care services, enhancing the mental well-being, and fostering healthy aging for Chinese older adults
Philanthropy, market creation, and enterprise development
No full textThe institutions of philanthropic giving and the commercial market are traditionally perceived as distinct. But philanthropic resources are increasingly flowing into both for-profit and non-profit market-based organisations, and there is a new focus upon philanthropy's role in creating or repairing markets in order to achieve social and economic impact. This chapter describes this market support role of philanthropy and analyses in detail two distinct modes of action: a market creation function, modelled on the mainstream capitalist market, that seeks to enable the development of innovative market structures and products that can resolve social problems at scale; and a ‘community enterprise’ function, whereby philanthropic funding develops the commercial capacity of locally based social enterprises and businesses. The chapter recognises normative criticisms of philanthropy's role in market development, but argues that there is an important social policy function for philanthropy in repairing specific absences and failures of both market and state
Orchestrating delivery: how planners can partner with developers to build 1.5 million homes
No full textDelivering 1.5 million homes by 2030 will be the biggest test of England’s planning system in a generation. Building on their new Political Quarterly article, Nancy Holman and Alan Mace argue that securing this pledge means moving beyond a narrow focus on targets and enforcement, and equipping local authorities with the practical tools to partner with developers as genuine delivery agents
Europe has much to learn from Ukraine's drone warfare ecosystem
No full textDrones have played a pivotal role in Ukraine’s defence during the Russia-Ukraine war. Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Sebastian Schwartz and Oliver Gill argue the drone warfare ecosystem Ukraine has rapidly developed offers some powerful lessons for Europe
The invisible crisis: long Covid and related conditions in Brazil
No full textIn April 2025, Brenda Sabaine, a PhD student in the Department of Methodology, Professor Flora Cornish, and their colleagues co-authored an article in Global Public Health, titled ‘The erasure of infection-associated chronic conditions: Critical interpretive synthesis of literature on healthcare for Long COVID and related conditions in Brazil’. They share with us their concerns that long Covid, and the wider category of infection-associated chronic conditions, suffer significant neglect in global health systems