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1. Levelling Up White Paper: IFS hard facts.

Subjects
REGIONAL disparities in education, LABOR market, PUBLIC spending
Abstract

The article reports that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) with the Nuffield Foundation has published research to coincide with the launch of the Government's new Levelling Up White Paper that shows regional inequalities in Education. Topics include Geographical inequalities in labor market outcomes are underpinned by large inequalities in educational attainment; and Taxes and public spending redistribute significant sums of money from London and the South East of England.

Published
2022

3. Authority signaling: How relational interactions between journalists and politicians create primary definers in UK broadcast news.

Author

Chadwick, Andrew, McDowell-Naylor, Declan, Smith, Amy P, and Watts, Ellen

Subjects
BROADCAST journalism, JOURNALISM & society, ECONOMIC policy, DISCURSIVE psychology
Abstract

How journalists construct the authority of their sources is an essential part of how news comes to have power in politics and how political actors legitimize their roles to publics. Focusing on economic policy reporting and a dataset of 133 hours of mainstream broadcast news from the 5-week 2015 UK general election campaign, we theorize and empirically illustrate how the construction of expert source authority works. To build our theory, we integrate four strands of thought: an important, though in recent years neglected, tradition in the sociology of news concerned with 'primary definers'; the underdeveloped literature on expert think tanks and media; recent work in journalism studies advocating a relational approach to authority; and elements from the discursive psychology approach to the construction of facticity in interactive settings. Our central contribution is a new perspective on source authority: the identification of behaviors that are key to how the interactions between journalists and elite political actors actively construct the elevated authoritative status of expert sources. We call these behaviors authority signaling. We show how authority signaling works to legitimize the power of the United Kingdom's most important policy think tank and discuss the implications of this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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4. MoD readying itself for war on deficit.

Author

Phillips, Lucy

Subjects
BUDGET cuts, PRICE increases
Abstract

The article reports on the effects of the budget cuts in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Great Britain. According to Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, they are facing financial pressures from the rising fuel to the cost growth on equipment projects. It notes that the Institute for Fiscal Studies Green Budget found that the budget protection for health and education results to more budget cuts in the defence sector. It also mentions the MoD shortfall estimate of the National Audit Office.

Published
2010

5. Slackers or pace-setters?

Subjects
*MONOPOLISTIC competition, *COMPETITIVE advantage in business, *ANTITRUST law, *ECONOMISTS, *RESTRAINT of trade, *TRADE regulation, *PRICE fixing, *MARKET saturation, COMPETITION
Abstract

This article discusses how monopolies may have more incentive to innovate than economists have thought. A lot of attention has been paid to the ill effects of monopoly. In essence, the trouble with monopolists is that they can set prices almost as they please. Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian economist, pointed out many years ago that established firms play a big role in innovation. A paper published a few years ago by Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, of Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies, did much to resolve this empirical question. Mr Blundell and his colleagues found that the pharmaceutical industry provided the strongest evidence of correlation between market share and innovation.

Published
2004

6. A dire warning Scots families can't ignore.

Subjects
PUBLIC debts, IMMIGRANTS, GROSS domestic product, SCOTTISH economy
Abstract

NO more waffle, please, Alex. Following yesterday's devastating report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the prospects for the Scottish economy under independence, the responsibility lies squarely with the SNP to provide a convincing rebuttal in its White Paper, due to be published a week today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

7. Reform attacks schools' ring-fenced budgets, HMCI chips in on class sizes.

Author

Waterman, Chris

Subjects
EDUCATIONAL finance, SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT aid to education, RESEARCH institutes
Abstract

The article presents the criticisms of non-party think tank Reform on the restricted budget of schools in Great Britain. Reform urges schools to urgently debate and discuss the worth of money because of the projected decline of per capital funding of schools. Moreover, report of the Institute for Fiscal Studies details that the average spending of departments will decline by about 18% between 2010-2011 and 2017-2018.

Published
2013

8. IFS report issues cuts wake-up call.

Subjects
PUBLIC spending
Abstract

The article reports on the outlook of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Ltd. (IFS) towards a decrease in spending in Wales.

Published
2013