Rob Ralston
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Rob Ralston
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Lecturer in Public Policy at Edinburgh Uni researching corporate power and planetary health - currently global plastics treaty | ‘most improved PhD student’ 2017-18 | part-time Kieran Tierney Ultra
I’d also say that many of these billionaire philanthropists are the direct beneficiaries of neoliberal reforms and it’s probably inconceivable for them to promote anything other than marketised or financialized solutions
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
yes, and I think there’s also a tension between philanthropists wanting to exert control over development initiatives and the reality that the most effective policies are not the techno-solutions favoured by billionaires
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
and as a metric for deciding who is ‘at risk’ of redundancy
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
beyond the issues around academic integrity and plagiarism, I’m curious as to how this would square with protocols for systematic reviews including replicability
October 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
definitely, and I think Baumgartner and Jones’ work remains underused in the literature on corporate power (despite the fact they use the tobacco industry as a case study)

venue hopping is definitely meant as a complementary concept rather than a substitute
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
this paper is a first attempt at theorising these dynamics, which I hope is useful for the scholarship on corporate power

may be of interest

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October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
we argue that the rapid proliferation of multistakeholder initiatives in global governance has led to a shift in corporate political strategy.

While venue shopping remains a key strategy, we see corporate actors operating in and between venues, playing one setting against the other
October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
as local bands like Young Fathers have pointed out in interviews, the issue in Edinburgh (and many other cities) is about the loss of club spaces to noise complaints
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM