José Harris

Bio: José Harris is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Civil society & Social history. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 940 citations.

Private Lives, Public Spirit: A Social History of Britain, 1870-1914

Abstract: Part 1 Themes and interpretations - an overview of British society 1870-1914: continuity and change the impact of empire the emergence of class individualism and collectivism from "ancient constitution" to "great society" the nationalization of culture gender "modernity" and the "lost domain" paradox and plurality Victorians and Edwardians. Part 2 Demography, death and disease: people and cities patterns of fertility patterns of mortality society, sickness and medicine. Part 3 Family and household: the "Victorian" family family size and structure domestic economy patriarchalism motherhood childhood sexual relations family life. Part 4 Property: perceptions of property the distribution of property aristocratic property middle-class property working-class property property and politics. Part 5 Work: work and gentility structure, skill and organization alienation, leisure and the work ethic industrial relations work and the "working class" culture and context. Part 6 Religion: the issue of "secularization" the sociology of church attendance the churches and civic structure the structure of belief religion and society. Part 7 Society and the state: the social bases of the state the mid-Victorian state changing political culture contradiction and expansion finance, bureaucracy and social policy crime, law and police ambiguities of power. Part 8 Society and social theory: the problem of "society" atomism, organicism and social evolution historicism and idealism social theory and the "social problem" the language of race perceptions ofpoverty decay and degeneration society, liberty and character - echoes of Greece and Rome.

Civil society in British history : ideas, identities, institutions

Abstract: Introduction : Civil Society in British History: Paradigm or Peculiarity? 1. From Richard Hooker to Harold Laski: Changing Perceptions of Civil Society in British Political Thought 2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Powers and Concerns, c.1700-1850 3. 'Opinions Deliver'd in Conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century 4. Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 5. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany: L. J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question 6. Altercation over Civil Society: The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes 7. Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York 1870-1914 8. British Progressives and Civil Society in India 1905-1914 9. Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action 1916-1918 10. The Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society 1926-1947 11. Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937 12. Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture c.1930-1950 13. 'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan 1965-1973 14. Civil Society and the Good Citizen: Competing Conceptions of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain Bibliography Index

Linking Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Abstract: In the 1980s stagflation and high unemployment caused a renewed interest in supply side economics and in factors determining economic growth. Simultaneously, the 1980s and 1990s have seen a reevaluation of the role of small firms and a renewed attention for entrepreneurship. The goal of this survey is to synthesize disparate strands of literature to link entrepreneurship to economic growth. This will be done by investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth using elements of various fields: historical views on entrepreneurship, macro-economic growth theory, industrial economics (Porter's competitive advantage of nations), evolutionary economics, history of economic growth (rise and fall of nations) and the management literature on large corporate organizations. Understanding the role of entrepreneurship in the process of economic growth requires the decomposition of the concept of entrepreneurship. A first part of our synthesis is to contribute to the understanding of the dimensions involved, while paying attention to the level of analysis (individual, firm and aggregate level). A second part is to gain insight in the causal links between these entrepreneurial dimensions and economic growth. A third part is to make suggestions for future empirical research into the relationship between (dimensions of) entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Understanding Governance: Ten Years On:

Abstract: The paper reassesses the argument in Understanding Governance (1997). The first section summarizes where we are now in the study of governance, reviewing briefly the key concepts of policy networks, governance, core executive, hollowing out the state and the differentiated polity. The second section engages with my critics with the aim of opening new directions of research. I concentrate on the key issues of: the context of policy networks, explaining change and the role of ideas, the decline of the state, rescuing the core executive, and steering networks. Under each heading, I sketch a decentred answer to the question of where we go from here. I argue the analysis of governance should focus on beliefs, practices, traditions and dilemmas.

Towards a critical understanding of accounting: The case of cost accounting in the U.K., 1914–1925☆

Abstract: Management accounting is commonly understood to be a set of techniques for collecting and processing useful facts about organisational life. The information obtained is viewed as an objective form of knowledge untaited by social values and ideology; the practitioners as technically skilled professionals whose political and social allegiances have no bearing on their practices. In this paper these views are brought into question through the “genealogical” method of looking in detail at one period in the history of accounting, examining the interplay between knowledge, techniques, institutions and occupational claims. In the period and place chosen — Britain during the First World War and the immediately following years, society was in a state of turmoil and this provides an ideal context for considering one part of the genealogy of management accounting.