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Ineffective Policies : Causes And Consequences Of Bad Policy Choices
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- Summary
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What constitutes ineffective policies? How does bad policy making come about and how is it sustained? What relationships exist between ineffective and bad policy and the current state of democracy?.
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- Creator
- Ian Roberge, Heather McKeen-Edwards, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781447371557, 1447371550
- 1. 1. Ineffective policies: causes and consequences of bad policy decisions - Ian Roberge, Heather McKeen-Edwards and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn -- 2. Giving serious thought to bad policy and the state of democracy - Mariëlle Wijermars and Ian RobergePart 1: Ineffective policies, contested goals -- 3. From good to bad? The contested desirability of economic growth - Matthias Kranke -- 4. What a bad policy idea! Exploring views on wind farms in Italy - Alberto Asquer -- 5. Satoshi meets the state: bad policy in Uncle Sam's initial encounters with Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology - Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn -- 6. Toronto's failed smart city: intellectual property, data, and bad governance - Natasha Tusikov -- 7. Letting the solution define the problem: Canada's COVID Alert app as a case of failed policy - Blayne HaggartPart 2: Ineffective policies, negative outcomes -- 8. Toxic growth in the circular economy: is the EU Plastics Strategy a bad policy? - Jacob Hasselbach -- 9. The environment, megacity growth and ineffective policy: housing policy reform in Ontario - Mark Winfield and Madison Stirling -- 10. Death by a thousand clarifications: how the Volcker Rule's inevitable ambiguity makes it easy to erode and hard to defend while leaving the power of banks unchecked - Erin Lockwood -- 11. Borrowing money from the fringes: the problematic regulation of payday loans in Canada and the US - Heather McKeen-Edwards Part 3: The bad impacts of ineffective policies -- 12. Bad policies and the erosion of trust in comparative perspective - David K. Jesuit and Thomas J. Greitens -- 13. The path forward: addressing bad policy for the sake of good policy - Ian Roberge