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In response to citizen's alarm & fear from the increasing number & diversity of immigrants, GB passed the 1976 Race Relations Act, which created a Commission for Racial Equality on the national level & charged local authorities with improving race relations based on voluntary action, an approach that is constrasted to US legislation & the immigrant quota system. In Leicester, an industrialized city of 283,000 people whose ethnicity in 1991 amounted to 28.5% from outside the UK, this process was particularly dramatic & is still unfolding. Ethnic monitoring was initiated in 1979 in order to evaluate needs of immigrant groups as a base for all institutes & departments in the city to develop positive action plans with quantifiable targets. Results with respect to jobs, housing, cultural activities, & festivals are described. The role of ethnically based voluntary associations, which have become subagents on behalf of the city, & the possibility that the European Commission may recognize voluntary associations as a social partner along with employers & trade unions are discussed. Future prospects for incorporating minorities through an integration process & for overcoming xenophobia in the majority population are considered. Adapted from the source document.

This article applies Norbert Elias's 'processual-relational approach' to an empirical case: the influential Leicester Department of Sociology between 1954 and 1982. Based on 42 qualitative interviews and extensive archival materials, we identify two phases: the early phase of cohesion is characterised by a strong sense of purpose and a growing influence on British sociology. The second phase is characterised by social and intellectual fragmentation. In explaining this reversal, we argue that a critical juncture of youth rebellion around 1968 provided the portents of an anti-authoritarian civilisational trend, which increasingly put strains on the established power nexus: the autocratic leadership model embodied by the department's inspirational leader, Ilya Neustadt.

Collaboration among multiple stakeholders is crucial in decentralised governance settings. The success of such collaboration hinges upon collaborative learning–the acquiring, translating, and disseminating of policy-relevant knowledge. However, despite much research, a knowledge gap persists in the public policy literature on the relationship between learning and policy change. It is debated whether learning is necessary and sufficient for policy change, and if so, under what conditions. To contribute to this debate, this paper examined whether collaborative learning has had any impact on the emergence and implementation of sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) in Leicester, England. We first examined implementation of SuDS in Leicester, and then study collaborative learning focused on SuDS. We found that implementation of SuDS in Leicester is marginal despite active collaborative learning that has resulted in the change in beliefs and attitudes towards SuDS among all policy actors in the setting. Social dynamics factors and leadership of two SuDS champions proved crucial for collaborative learning. We conclude that collaborative learning, while essential for legitimacy of a policy innovation, is not sufficient for policy change and a national legal and institutional framework is required to incentivise broader SuDS practices in Leicester and England.