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Why say no?: reasons for non-participation in the north Cumbria community genetics project
No full textAbstract only see Haimes, Erica and Whong-Barr, Michael (2004) Key issues in genetic epidemiology: lessons from a UK-based empirical study. Trames: journal of the humanities and social sciences, 8 (1/2). pp. 150-163. ISSN 1406-092
Review: Barr, Michael and Zlatko Skrbiš (2008), Constructing Singapore. Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project
No full textReview of the monograph: Barr, Michael and Zlatko Skrbiš, Constructing Singapore. Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008, ISBN 978-87-7694-029-4, 304 page
Review: Barr, Michael and Zlatko Skrbiš (2008), Constructing Singapore. Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project
No full textReview of the monograph: Barr, Michael and Zlatko Skrbiš, Constructing Singapore. Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008, ISBN 978-87-7694-029-4, 304 pagesSingapore; ethnicity; nation building
Perpetual revisionism in Singapore: the limits of change
No full textDuring the thirty years of Lee Kuan Yew's premiership of Singapore, he spectacularly transformed the island into a tightly controlled corporatist state that mirrored his own beliefs about the nature of society, especially on matters of race, language, democracy and welfare. His successor has tried to make his own mark on Singapore, but his early experiences left lingering doubts about his capacity to introduce fundamental changes. Partly as a result of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's failure to differentiate himself from Lee in his dealings with oppositions there has been a popular tendency to see his reforms as being cosmetic or at most purely functional. Such assessments, however, underplay the radical nature of some of Goh's initiatives. This does not refer to his efforts to create a public space for non-confrontational civil society, but to the weakening of the PAP's hard line against 'welfarism' and changes to its approach to matters of race and ethnicity. These developments beg an important question: what are the parameters of likely change in Singapore? Or to put it another way: where are the 'out-of-bounds' (OB) markers within Cabinet? This paper will try to answer these questions by considering current reforms in an historical context. It distinguishes between Lee Kuan Yew's personal legacy, and the core ideological premises of the regime, and argues that some of the reforms being implemented by Goh are significant challenges to the former, but are well within the bounds of the latter
Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore: A Critical Inquiry
No full textAbstract With the United States currently experimenting with medical savings accounts (MSAs), it is appropriate to revisit the Singapore experience, where the practice has been in place for a decade and half. Singapore runs a modern, effective health system at a fraction of the cost of most systems operating in the developed West. Although MSAs contribute to the framework of a cultural rhetoric of personal responsibility for health care, this article argues that the heart of the Singapore sys-tem of health funding, with its financial discipline, is government control of inputs and outputs and strict rationing of health services according to wealth. Since the end of the Second World War, when Western governments began accepting increased levels of responsibility for the health of their citizens, the cost of health care to national economies has increased steadily and became a major concern for most governments after the 1970s. Regardless of different models of health funding used, and despite the fact that governments are not generally bearing all of the costs them-selves, health care expenditures have escalated to levels that have made it difficult to reconcile conflicting fiscal, social, and political imperatives. In 1997 the United States considered itself fortunate to have held its expenditure on health services at 13.6 percent of its gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) (Bishop 1998). In the European Union, the expenditure on health services has been rising 50 percent faster than the rise in GDP since the 1970s, leading to the current situation wherein EU countries The author wishes to thank the anonymous reviewers of this article for their advice and criti-cisms. The article is much improved due to their contributions
Book Review: Barr, Michael D.: The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence
No full textBook Review of the monograph by Barr, Michael D. (2014), The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence. London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN-13 978-1780762340, 224 pages. With The Ruling Elite of Singapore, Barr makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Singapore’s opaque governance and political elite. At a time of epochal political changes in Singapore comes this excellent analysis of the inner system of the city-state’s power centre. Thanks to its clear structure and accessible style, Barr’s work will be appreciated not only by scholars but also by a wider audience with a general interest in Singapore’s politics and history
Book Review: Barr, Michael D.: The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence
No full textBook Review of the monograph by Barr, Michael D. (2014), The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence. London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN-13 978-1780762340, 224 pages. With The Ruling Elite of Singapore, Barr makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Singapore’s opaque governance and political elite. At a time of epochal political changes in Singapore comes this excellent analysis of the inner system of the city-state’s power centre. Thanks to its clear structure and accessible style, Barr’s work will be appreciated not only by scholars but also by a wider audience with a general interest in Singapore’s politics and history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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