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About: White paper is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3852 publications have been published within this topic receiving 51169 citations. The topic is also known as: White paper & White papers.


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TL;DR: The Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 as discussed by the authors has a largely forgotten context: home defence, and it is argued that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded.
Abstract: Long understood as the key document in Britain's Cold War history, the Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 nevertheless has a largely forgotten context: home defence. This article argues that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and the reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded. It argues that the Paper failed to establish a new doctrine for civil defence which reconciled the policy with the wider deterrent strategy. In doing this, the Paper presented a muddled policy to the public: one which failed to justify the reductions in civil defence provision but which stressed the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons. This had the effect of encouraging the critics of the government's nuclear strategy to flag up the absence of adequate civil defence measures and highlight the ‘admission’ that there was no defence against the hydrogen bomb.

15 citations

01 May 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the present role of private providers in UK higher education, compares the position with that in the United States and then discusses some policy questions and policy options relating to their regulation and funding.
Abstract: This paper describes the present role of private providers in UK higher education, compares the position with that in the United States and then discusses some policy questions and policy options relating to their regulation and funding. This is made as a contribution to the debate that will lead up to and follow the Education White Paper.

15 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the interplay of care and control functions within the British police and highlight the obstacles that the police service must overcome to realize that combination, highlighting the need for the service and care nature of their work.
Abstract: The paper focuses on the interplay of care and control functions within the British police. There are several areas of police activity, such as child sexual abuse investigations, sexual assault, and the handling of the mentally ill, where there is already an operational mixture of care and control functions. Recently, the police have emphasised the service and care nature of their work. Indeed, there are good operational and ethical reasons to do so. However, the government's priority, expressed through such documents as the White Paper on police reform, the report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, and the Sheehy Report, appears to be one of enhancing the police's control functions. An emphasis on a combination of care and control would, however, result in greater benefits than a focus predominantly on control alone. The paper highlights the obstacles that the police service must overcome to realise that combination.

15 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202395
2022203
202159
2020101
2019115
201899