Suchergebnisse

Review of: Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific, Frederick Lau and Christine R. Yano (eds) (2018)
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 228 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 82487 376 9 (hbk), US$80.00

Review of: Charles Brasch: Journals 1958–1973, selected, annotated and introduced by Peter Simpson (2018)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 694 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 98853 114 4 (hbk), NZ$59.95

Review of: New Zealand Jazz Life, Norman Meehan and Tony Whincup (photographs) (2016)
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 240 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 77656 092 9 (pbk), NZ$40.00

Searching for tradition in New Zealand music is itself now a tradition, one that began in earnest with Douglas Lilburn's famous talk given at the Cambridge Summer School of Music in January 1946. At that time, the seminal talk had no title. It was only forty years later that Lilburn gave it the name A Search for a Tradition, when music historian John Mansfield Thomson edited it for publication.

AbstractWhat have been the effects of coalition government on the British regulatory state? This article argues that the politics of regulation have been largely about a continuation of existing patterns, namely volatile stability rather than more far‐reaching change. The British regulatory state continues to be defined by boundary conflicts between the world of 'politics' and 'regulation', by conflicting calls for centralisation and decentralised autonomy, and by tensions between the wish to 'reduce' regulation and the realisation of inherent complexities.

Questions regarding the problem-solving capacity of the state have been long-standing. The financial crisis as well as future demographic and environmental challenges have raised the spectre of the depleted state, a state that lacks legitimacy and resources to steer social, economic and political developments. This article considers how a perspective that centres on executive politics can illuminate key debates surrounding the depleted state. It does so in three steps. First, it considers whether the earlier literature on the 'crisis of the state' of the 1970s contributes to contemporary debates. Second, it questions whether the age of 'governance' has come to the rescue, and not just of the challenges outlined by the earlier literature. Third, it discusses the contribution of executive politics to the study of the contemporary state's problem-solving capacity and draws wider implications of the age of the depleted state for executive politics.

AbstractThe literature on risk regulation often assumes a direct link between public pressure and regulatory responses. This article investigates whether the direction of regulatory response is related to public argumentation as expressed in the national print media. Three approaches are explored: national policy patterns, political panics expressed in Pavlovian politics, and policy responses shaped by universal policy paradigms. It assesses these three approaches in comparative perspective by looking at scandals in food safety regulation in Denmark, Germany and the US, looking at argumentation patterns in the national print media and using a coding system derived from grid-group cultural theory and regulatory responses. While all three countries display mostly hierarchical argumentation patterns, their actual regulatory responses point to diverse patterns.