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As local councils deal with a ‘bureaucratic backlog’, should births be registered by telephone, post, or online?
In emergencies, time is a currency. If the government fails to deliver basic income to the people, the consequences could be catastrophic.
Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke ideals while pursuing their own agendas?
Fees for everything from green cards to naturalization are not only common, but increasingly costly and mandatory.
Bureaucratic ‘red tape’ has contributed to the current crisis in our aged care system. We need a system of accountability that focuses more on residents’ outcomes, and less on processes.
The process known as policy analysis requires careful consideration and deliberation. In most cases, the public also gets to weigh in.
Only three countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
As long as they are competent, I believe military officers have the right to participate in deciding the future of the nation.
National programs have not yielded improved achievement rates in schools. We need to empower local people to take responsibility and collaborate to develop programs.
Trapped in low growth trajectory, South Africa needs to boost small business development.
Red tape forced some DACA recipients to change their names when they applied, making it all the more difficult to lead a normal life.
The law can both make and break criminals.
Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
Vancouver may be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but the president of Emily Carr University says the city could benefit from the discipline of design.
A former BBC special correspondent looks at why fundamental lessons weren’t learnt after the deadly Lakanal Fire that he investigated in 2009.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
A professor who once held top secret clearance explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.
An FBI historian tells stories from the agency’s ups and downs over 109 years and four dismissed directors.
The Trump administration may do well to make a friend of the federal bureaucracy it’s so intent on gutting, according to an expert who studies the role of civil servants in government.
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Coventry University
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President Emeritus and Director, Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies, Emily Carr University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
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William R Kenan, Jr Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science; Co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions., Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor in Organizations, University of Southampton
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Professor of Journalism, Middlesex University
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Professor Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, New York University
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Compton Professor at the Miller Center and the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Doctoral Candidate in Law and Policy, Adjunct Faculty Member, Northeastern University
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Professor of History, Yale University