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With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ‘The People’s Chamber.’
Congress − the first branch of government listed in the Constitution − has been relegated to second-class status.
This form of community theatre is used all over the world for social and political activism, conflict resolution, and community building.
What are the limits on executive orders? They come with serious constraints. A political scientist who studies these orders puts Trump’s actions in context.
During Donald Trump’s second presidency, both federal and provincial governments should reflect on their recent experiences handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the dangers of being adaptive.
Citizens’ assemblies bring members of the public into the fold of the difficult trade-offs that need to be made on every decision of public importance.
The British state is not a Rolls Royce just waiting for a new driver – it needs a thorough overhaul.
Requiring businesses to lobby through the people, not government, as Pierre Poilievre recently suggested, may sound like a better way to make policy. It’s not.
Drawing on insights from their recent book, two academics shed light on why Canada’s anemic growth should be a cause for concern.
Researchers want real-world impact. Lawmakers want programs that work. The public wants to benefit from taxpayer-funded research. Building a bridge from academia to legislatures is key to all three.
When people are involved in planning for climate transition that takes account of their other daily concerns, such as housing and jobs, they become more positive about transformative change.
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
A new standing committee will ensure that Canadian federal policy is based on science. The committee should consider critical ethical thinking, scholarship and action, as well as legal frameworks and sociocultural values.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
There is a growing lament in Australia that politicians let us down. But the lesson from the pandemic is that we, the people, have the power to change our economy and politics for a better future.
The food and beverage industry is increasingly involved in the policymaking process.
Coronavirus is hitting some communities harder than others. But a lack of very basic data categorisation means it’s difficult for the UK government to tailor its response.
At times of high tension, governments can be cornered into making mistakes by responding to the wrong pressures.
Simple policies, such as the free bus pass for older adults, not only reduce loneliness but also help older people maintain cognitive function.
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, UCL
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Principal Soil Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Research Scientist in Applied Mathematical Modelling, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law and Director, Institute for International Law and Justice, New York University
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Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Vice Dean and Professor of Business Law, New York University
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Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher of urban & cultural studies, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Professor of European and International Politics, King's College London
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Lecturer, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia
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Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde