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A New British Model?
There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will Hutton has talked about the "social democratising" of the Anglo-Saxon model, and last year Nick Pearce (Director of ippr) and colleagues outlined the "Anglo-Social Model". This describes the approach as an attempt to combine the economic performance and flexibility of liberal welfare states with the social protection and equality of Scandinavian countries.
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Local Government Reputation Campaign
Local government plays a huge role in people's lives and, according to the Treasury, is the most efficient part of the public sector making 1632.6m a day in savings. So why is it that public satisfaction of council services is improving, but the public perception of councils is not?
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Frontiers of Performance in Housing
Frontiers of Performance in Housing, an analysis of the wealth of survey data that emerged from the last round of Best Value Performance Indicator (BVPI) surveys which local authorities undertook to measure customer satisfaction with the range of services they provide. This report looks at the tenant surveys, and puts the data in context in a way that, to our knowledge, has not been done before.
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Who Do You Believe? Trust In Government Information
A new report from MORI shows it is wrong to talk about a new crisis of trust in government and politicians are as distrusted as they always have been. However, "Who do you believe? Trust in government information" does reveal a serious decline in certain aspects of trust.
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Physical Capital: Liveability in 2005
In 2002, MORI Social Research Institute published our first report on Liveability, called "The Rising Prominence of Liveability - Are we condemned to a life of grime". Three years on, we revisit a subject area that has grown in importance to policy makers in key government departments. Our analysis is telling, and indeed, encouraging. Local government has woken up to its problems on the central Liveability issues and people are starting to notice changes on the ground.
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You are what you read?
Newspaper readers are less likely to express 'average' views on the five top issues -- defence, the NHS, race/immigration, education and crime -- than those who don't read a daily paper, according to a new report from MORI.
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Before And After: The perception gap
Does giving voters the facts on issues like the NHS change their views? Up to a point
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Ipsos Scotland: the first ten years 1995-2005
This report provides a taster of the scope of the research
conducted by Ipsos Scotland over the past ten years )1995-2005). -
What drives satisfaction with local government?
If an authority is perceived to provide generally good quality services and good value for money, then it is highly likely to also achieve strong satisfaction ratings. Indeed, perceptions on these attributes are consistently shown to be the strongest drivers of overall satisfaction across different studies and across key sub-groups within the population.
This report highlights some key areas where further collection of data would be helpful in providing evidence to explore various hypotheses around the drivers of satisfaction