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The link between product market reform and macro-economic performance
Get PDFValue-added per capita in EU countries has lagged behind the US. This is despite widespread reforms to product markets across EU countries aimed at increasing growth. This study analyses the macro-economic impact of product market reforms undertaken in the European Union over the 1980s and 1990s by examining a large number of regulations and reforms across EU countries.product market, product market reforms, regulations, macro-economic performance, allocative efficiency, productive efficiency, dynamic efficiency, aggregate economy, Griffith, Harisson
Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
Managing Stakeholder Relationships in Conjunction with a Public Health Agenda: A Case Study of Community Sport Events in New Zealand
No full textExisting research suggests that the stereotypical realm of taboo sport sponsorship, which has traditionally included tobacco and alcohol products, is evolving to incorporate soft drink, confectionary and fast food. Such products are viewed (by some event stakeholders and community members) as detrimental to public health initiatives and are seen as contributing to health issues including obesity, diabetes and heart disease. As a result, some organisations who associate themselves (via sponsorship) with community sport events are receiving criticism over the types of products they are promoting. These challenges are due, in part, to increasing public health concerns (especially within New Zealand) and amplified levels of corporate social responsibility in relation to sponsorship partnerships with companies that produce such products. Due to sport events often being linked to stereotypical values associated with fitness, healthy living and active lifestyles, this would suggest that there is a narrowing field of sponsors and associated funding which sport event managers can utilise. A review of the literature pertaining to sport sponsorship and sport event sponsorship demonstrated the need for research which examines community sport event sponsorship and stakeholder relationships. Research gauging the impact a public health agenda can have on potential and existing community sport events sponsors is required. In order to do this, community sport event stakeholder relationships and sponsor-focussed incompatibilities need to be examined and understood. Such research will aid in the management of successful stakeholder relationships and sustained provision of community sport events.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Performing: A Grounded Theory of Employment Experiences of Room Attendants at Five Star Hotels on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia
No full textMy research makes visible the ‘employment experiences’ of female hotel room attendants working in 5 star hotels on the Gold Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia. I adopt a socialist feminist critical theory epistemological perspective predicated on removing invisibility of hotel room attendants. I perceive invisibility as non-recognition or non-acknowledgement of room attendants by hotel management and some hotel guests, despite room attendants’ conspicuous presence. Although a number of studies comment on the invisibility of hotel room attendants (Lars Onsøyen, Reidar Mykeltun & Trygve Steiro, 2009; Rachel Silvey, 2004; Kathi Weeks, 2004), the authors do not present room attendants’ experiences holistically from their perspectives. I aimed to fill this void in hospitality knowledge by investigating employment experiences of hotel room attendants from their perspectives. To investigate hotel room attendants’ perceived empirical invisibility and guided by my epistemological philosophy, I adopted a qualitative social constructionist grounded theory methodology. In following the original Glaserian tenets, my research was grounded in room attendants’ employment experiences without limitations imposed by assuming any a priori theory. Emerging from my study was the theory of Performing.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Reflections on transgender immigration
No full textRecently, the Human Rights Commission of New Zealand has conducted an inquiry that has officially documented ‘the obstacles to dignity, equality and security for trans people’. The Australian Human Rights Commission has also recently conducted a sex and gender diversity project, and in 2006 the Equalities Review in the United Kingdom commissioned the largest research project ever untaken globally on trans people’s lives, reported in Engendered Penalties: Transgender and Transsexual People’s Experiences of Inequality and Discrimination. This article reflects on the implications of the issues raised by these recent reports and research for transgendered people immigrating to and from New Zealand. It also raises some parallel issues for Australia
Griffith Review 54: Earthly Delights – The Novella Project IV
No full textGriffith Review’s annual showcase of the best Australian novellas features a rich diversity of voices, subjects and styles. The fourth novella collection from Griffith Review once again demonstrates the strength of Australia’s fiction-writing talent.
The judges of this year’s competition – Nick Earls, Aviva Tuffield and Sally Breen – were unanimous in their praise of the entries. ‘These pieces are a showcase for the strength of the novella form,’ said Nick Earls. ‘Each writer takes us deep into the inner workings of their characters.’ Aviva Tuffield commented. ‘I was impressed by the overall quality and by the range of themes, voices and styles on display.’
Numbed following the death of his wife, Evan finds himself reinvigorated when his daughter’s partner urges him to return to his long neglected talent for drawing. MELANIE CHENG follows the lonely old man’s fledgling efforts to reconnect with the world, but will Evan’s growing fascination with the nude model he sketches in life-drawing classes lead to disaster, or will it inspire him to heal what remains of his fractured family relationships?
Terminally ill Saul has exiled himself to the remote Australian interior in a final attempt to reconnect with his ancestral lands. GRAHAM LANG chronicles Saul’s decline, and his unlikely battle of wills with the landowner – an isolated and aged farmer clinging to his patch of territory in the far-flung isolation of the outback.
A newly arrived teacher at a college in the Middle East struggles to make sense of the studied silences that surround the fate of her American predecessor. DANIEL JENKINS explores the complexities of life as an ex-pat as Rachel investigates the whispers she hears about a fellow Australian teacher.
Claire is overjoyed to meet the adult son she gave up for adoption as an adolescent. However, the intensity of their first encounter upsets her hard-won equilibrium and, as the relationship develops, SUZANNE McCOURT examines how quickly the fragile certainties that have underpinned Claire’s adult life begin to erode.
In ‘Datsunland’, STEPHEN ORR focuses on William, a middle-aged teacher and failed rock star, who is fed up with his work, his lack of success and his inability to break through with his band of hopeless mediocrities. In his student Charlie, a talented 14-year-old guitarist, William spies a possibility of redemption – but can he overcome his almost nihilistic sense of detachment to forge a meaningful connection?
Alongside the five winners of the Griffith Review annual fiction competition, Earthly Delights also features ‘The White Experiment’, the final piece of fiction written by the recently deceased CORY TAYLOR.No Full Tex
The Rise of the Guilty Plea in Australian Supreme Courts: A History
No full textThe contemporary Australian criminal prosecution process functions as a guilty plea system. The guilty plea is critical to the efficient running of criminal courts and the criminal justice system. Statutory provisions and case law almost guarantee that defendants prosecuted for serious criminal offences receive sentence reductions in exchange for guilty pleas. Whilst guilty pleas are arguably the most important mitigating factor that contemporary judges consider in their sentencing deliberations, this was not always the case. Historically, most defendants pleaded ‘not guilty’ and jury trials were the dominant mode of case disposition. Yet defendants began pleading guilty in increasingly greater proportions in some US and English courts from around the mid-nineteenth century. The ‘rise of the guilty plea’ triggered system transformation from jury trial to a guilty plea system of prosecution.
This thesis is the first research to examine the rise of the guilty plea in the Australian context. It departs from previous scholarship by arguing a theoretical framework that positions the ‘guilty plea’ rather than ‘plea bargaining’ as the focus of study. The historical plea bargaining scholarship hypothesises that the guilty plea phenomenon was the outcome of emerging plea bargaining practices between prosecuting and defence counsel. However the precursors to bargaining, including public prosecution and centralised policing, were extant in the Australian criminal justice system long before guilty pleas began accelerating. This thesis argues that a plea bargaining framework is unsuited to explaining system transformation in Australian courts.
This thesis employs a mixed methods research methodology to investigate guilty pleas at both a macro and micro-level of analysis. The quantitative study employs large scale data from the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘The Prosecution Project’. It tracks the acceleration of defendants’ guilty pleas in more than 10,000 cases prosecuted in the Queensland, Western Australian and Victorian Supreme Courts between 1901 and 1961. It identifies the mid-twentieth century as the period when system transformation occurred in Australian courts, significantly later than hypothesised in the current scholarship. The significant mechanism driving this acceleration was the rapid increase in guilty pleas to property theft prosecutions, specifically burglary and stealing.
The qualitative component of the study provides micro-level, in-depth analysis of the practices of police, lawyers, and the judiciary that influenced defendants’ guilty pleas. The analysis focuses on 60 property theft cases prosecuted in the Queensland Supreme Court, but also synthesises a range of archival sources including reported decisions, administrative records, and newspapers. This analysis identifies the key role of police practices in the pre-trial stage of the prosecution process. These practices focused on convictions obtained through confessional material, rather than investigation, but increasingly included problematic practices such as inducing confessions and guilty pleas. However, crown prosecutors and the judiciary failed to acknowledge the extent of these practices until the transformation to a guilty plea system was complete. Police practices were thus the central cog in a series of linked gears of practice involving lawyers and the judiciary that influenced defendants’ decisions to plead guilty and established the origins of the contemporary guilty plea system.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Crim & Crim JusticeArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Community policing strategies need to take into account police and residents’ different perceptions of neighborhood crime.
No full textDo police officers and residents have different perceptions of crime and cohesion in urban neighborhoods? In new research, Rachel E. Stein and Candace Griffith find resident observations of neighborhood measures are relatively consistent across three urban neighborhoods in a Midwestern city. Police perceptions of their relationship with residents and the close-knit structure of the community, however, are more positive in the primarily white neighborhood that has an active crime prevention program. The results suggest that what officers see on the “surface” of the neighborhood is driving overall perceptions, while underlying problems are secondary. Differences between resident and police perceptions can influence the success of crime prevention strategies employed in community policing
The Politics of Partnership: The Role of Non-Government Organisations in Australian Drug Policy
No full textThe concepts of ‘partnership working’ and ‘intersectoral collaboration’ have become increasingly central to contemporary policy discourse on drugs and crime in Western liberal states, and the non-government sector now plays an integral role in the drug policy systems of many countries. Governments have actively sought to partner with non-government organisations in addressing drug problems and formulating effective drug policy. There has, however, been little empirical investigation of non-government policy work and their relationships with the bureaucratic state in the drugs field. This thesis responds to this gap by providing an account of the development of the idea of government/non-government ‘partnerships’ in the Australian drugs field, and presents new data on the broader role of non-government organisations in drug policy.
Informed by governmentality and critical policy studies literature, this thesis adopts a qualitative approach that engages with three major sources of data: 1) Primary governmental documents including national and state and territory drug policy documents; 2) semi-structured interviews with 19 representatives from Australian non-government organisations; and 3) documents produced by non-government organisations.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Replacement of Administration Sets for Peripheral Arterial Catheters at 4 Days versus 7 Days : A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial
No full textPeripheral arterial catheters (PACs) are routinely used for continuous haemodynamic monitoring and repeated blood sampling in critically ill patients. However, PACs are associated with a risk of serious infection. Mandating the frequency of replacement for administration sets (AS) is one strategy thought to reduce the risk of infection associated with PACs. Currently, many authorities give a broad recommendation of four to seven days AS use for all intravascular access devices. The duration of AS use may have an impact on PAC infection rates, but the optimum duration for AS use to prevent infection is currently unknown. Previous studies have reported no cases of peripheral arterial catheter-related bloodstream infection (PAC-BSI) when AS were replaced every 48 hours; however, few studies have been evaluated with AS used beyond this time.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Nursing and MidwiferyGriffith HealthFull Tex
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