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  • Access and Performance Inequalities – post-primary education in Northern Ireland 
    Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin (Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 2014)
    Northern Ireland's schools system is undergoing a radical review. The first stage in this process is to reform the post-primary sector in response to the Education Minister's call to 'put pupils first' and raise the overall ...
  • Adapting University Education for Changing Expectations of Public Services Leaders and Managers: New Guidance for Designing and Delivering MPAs 
    Coxhead, Francis; Grauberg, Janet; Joyce, Paul; Lawes, Tanya; Massey, Andrew; Knox, Colin (Public Money and Management, 2010)
    Guidance for designing and delivering Masters in Public Administration (MPA) programmes has just been approved by three key stakeholder bodies - the Public Administration Committee (of the Joint University Council), the ...
  • ‘An Acceptable Level of Violence’ Community Response to Crime: Northern Ireland and South Africa 
    Knox, Colin; Monaghan, Rachel (The Journal of Conflict Studies, 2001)
    This paper, drawing on focus group interview material, will therefore examine ways in which the communities in Northern Ireland and South Africa have responded to crime both during the conflict and thereafter. If the raison ...
  • Building Public Service-Oriented Government in China 
    Knox, Colin; Qun, Zhang (The International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2007)
    Purpose: Legislative hearings are a relatively new way of encouraging citizen participation in administrative law making within China. The first such hearing in Liaoning Province (Dalian City) was held in April 2005. This ...
  • Building Trust amidst Corruption in Bangladesh 
    Knox, Colin (Journal of International Affairs, 2009)
    The People’s Republic of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, became an independent state after the civil war of 1971 and joined the Commonwealth in 1972. It is a densely populated South Asian country with some 142 million ...
  • Bureau Shuffling? The Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Public Administration, 2006)
    The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement 1998 resulted in the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland and, with it, a decision by the Executive and Assembly to conduct a radical review of public administration. As the ...
  • Cohesion, sharing, and integration in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2011)
    The devolved government in Northern Ireland pledged to work for a `shared and better future for all' in its Programme for Government 2008 ^ 11. In pursuit of this goal it launched a consultation document entitled Programme ...
  • Dealing with Sectoral Corruption in Bangladesh: developing citizen involvement 
    Knox, Colin (Public Administration and Development, 2009)
    Bangladesh has had a troubled political history since gaining independence in 1971 and is also beleaguered by poverty and natural environmental disasters. In particular however, corruption is blighting its prospects for ...
  • Democratic Renewal in Fragmental Communities: The Northern Ireland Case 
    Knox, Colin (Local Governance, 2003)
    Northern Ireland is perhaps the locus extremis of fragmental communities in the United Kingdom. The ethno-national tensions and political violence that have ravaged the Province for over 30 years continue unabated at a ...
  • Devolution in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Public Money and Management: Debate Piece, 2010)
    Northern Ireland should not have received an invitation to the ‘10 years of devolution’ celebration party! Power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and its Executive Committee of Ministers on Thursday 2nd December ...
  • Devolution - the Northern Ireland Way: An Exercise in 'Creative Ambiguity' 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Environment and Planning Series C, 2005)
    Devolution in Northern Ireland followed directly from the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement which provided, inter alia, for a democratically elected Assembly ‘inclusive in its membership, capable of exercising executive ...
  • Equality and equity: An emerging government policy in northern ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Hughes, Joanne (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1994)
    A series of equality and equity measures has been introduced by the British Government to tackle the seemingly intractable problems of Northern Ireland. These measures represent a range of initiatives in the areas of social ...
  • Establishing Research Legitimacy in the Contested Political Ground of Contemporary Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Qualitative Research, 2001)
    Despite the plethora of literature on the macro politics of Northern Ireland, there is a dearth of material on grassroots activity, in particular the dynamic between communities and paramilitary groups which enforce ‘law ...
  • From the Margins to the Mainstream: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2013)
    Paramilitary organisations exerted a stranglehold on working class loyalist and republican communities in Northern Ireland during the conflict. In the absence of an effective and legitimate policing service, paramilitaries ...
  • Good Governance Matters in Kazakhstan 
    Knox, Colin (Astana Times, 2016-12-09)
    Good Governance Matters is the strapline of Nazarbayev University’s Graduate School of Public Policy. But what does “good governance” mean for the citizens of Kazakhstan? If Kazakhstan is to join the top 30 developed ...
  • Improving Public Services: Public Administration Reform in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Journal of Social Policy, 2004)
    The devolved government in Northern Ireland set about the task of putting in place ‘a modern and effective system of public administration that can deliver high quality public services to our citizens’. It did so through ...
  • Inequality, segregation and poor performance: the education system in Northern Ireland 
    Borooah, Vani K.; Knox, Colin (Educational Review, 2016)
    Northern Ireland is now a post-conflict society but one of the legacies of the “troubles” is an education system which is defined by religious affiliation/identity. A parallel system of schools continues to exist where ...
  • ‘Joined-Up’ Government: An integrated response to communal violence in Northern Ireland? 
    Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2003)
    The growing recognition that social problems are multi-faceted and need to be tackled in a way which cut-across traditional departmental boundaries has heralded the advent of joined-up government. Yet this new emphasis ...
  • Kazakhstan: Modernising Government in the Context of Political Inertia 
    Knox, Colin (International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2008)
    Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Since then it has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation under the leadership of President ...
  • Northern Ireland: where is the peace dividend? 
    Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2014)
    Northern Ireland has been described as a ‘post conflict’ society with a stable political environment following the peace process, and yet it is a hugely segregated society with significant social deprivation. With peace ...