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  • Information and Idioms in Circulation: Engaging the Minority Classification in 1930s India

  • Henrik Chetan Aspengren
  • Journal:
    Itinerario / Volume 48 / Issue 2 / August 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 November 2024, pp. 202-221

  • Several studies have shown how a system of social classifications influenced the bureaucracy of British India when dealing with Indian society on a day-to-day basis. We know less, however, about how representatives of Indian society engaged such classifications and the information accompanying it to advance their own political agendas. This article examines how the classification of “minorities,” along with data connected to it, impacted discourse of Indian political actors in the early 1930s. The article presents a novel method to analyse first-person speech for themes and information content. It then applies the method to interventions by Indian delegates to the Sub-committee on Minorities of the India Round Table Conference, held in London, 1930–2. The article places the empirical investigation within a conceptual frame inspired by Ian Hacking's “looping effect.” Hacking attempts to capture how those classified negotiate imposed designations to advance agendas beneficial to themselves. The following study shows how Indian delegates engaged minority classification in a variety of ways in their political argumentation. The study also shows how information related to the minority classification was “looped” in speech by Indian actors to advance political claims and consolidate identities.

  • Parliamentary reaction to the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: applied thematic analysis of 2016–2020 parliamentary debates

  • Catrin P Jones, Emma R Lawlor, Hannah Forde, Dolly RZ van Tulleken, Steven Cummins, Jean Adams, Richard Smith, Mike Rayner, Harry Rutter, Tarra L Penney, Olivia Alliot, Sofie Armitage, Martin White
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 January 2024, e51
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  • Objective:

    The UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) (announced in March 2016; implemented in April 2018) aims to incentivise reformulation of soft drinks to reduce added sugar levels. The SDIL has been applauded as a policy success, and it has survived calls from parliamentarians for it to be repealed. We aimed to explore parliamentary reaction to the SDIL following its announcement until two years post-implementation in order to understand how health policy can become established and resilient to opposition.

    Design:

    Searches of Hansard for parliamentary debate transcripts that discussed the SDIL retrieved 186 transcripts, with 160 included after screening. Five stages of Applied Thematic Analysis were conducted: familiarisation and creation of initial codebooks; independent second coding; codebook finalisation through team consensus; final coding of the dataset to the complete codebook; and theme finalisation through team consensus.

    Setting:

    The United Kingdom Parliament

    Participants:

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    Results:

    Between the announcement (16/03/2016) – royal assent (26/04/2017), two themes were identified 1: SDIL welcomed cross-party 2: SDIL a good start but not enough. Between royal assent – implementation (5/04/2018), one theme was identified 3: The SDIL worked – what next? The final theme identified from implementation until 16/03/2020 was 4: Moving on from the SDIL.

    Conclusions:

    After the announcement, the SDIL had cross-party support and was recognised to have encouraged reformulation prior to implementation. Lessons for governments indicate that the combination of cross-party support and a policy’s documented success in achieving its aim can help cement the resilience of it to opposition and threats of repeal.

  • Introduction

  • Christine Shaw
  • Book:
    Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy
    Published online:
    18 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    When the men involved in the government of the states of Renaissance Italy explained the basis of the principles by which they argued that political life and the conduct of affairs were, or should be, shaped, “reason” and “experience” were what they most frequently cited, sometimes separately, often together. Government records are the main sources for this study. Preambles to legislation, the records of council proceedings, and diplomatic reports and instructions have proved the most fruitful major classes of material; papers concerning or advocating reforms have a particular interest. One crucial consideration that has always to be borne in mind is the question of whose opinions are being voiced, particularly for documents written by chancellors or secretaries on behalf of a prince or a committee, although the book is not so much a study of the political principles of individuals as of the climate of opinion.