Why do government policies sometimes fail to reflect the public will? The answer begins with the design of the US government system, forged in the 18th century.
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As the climate crisis intensifies, New Zealand businesses of all kinds must face tougher scrutiny over their commitment to reducing carbon emissions.
When public services don’t work for Indigenous peoples, it’s more than just a case of policy failure. As long as colonial assumptions are embedded in the system, there can never be real progress.
One 11-year old girl told us she knows once rent is paid, there is almost nothing left over. So she never takes school excursion notes home, in case the cost is too much.
Making room for the input of children and adolescents in responses to the next pandemic would help maintain their health, education, well-being and more.
World Health Day is shining a light on local responses to health challenges. It’s time New Zealand takes that message to heart and works with local communities for a fairer health system.
David Seymour says misinterpretation of the Treaty risks creating an ‘ethno-state’. But ‘Critical Tiriti Analysis’ aims to enhance democracy by ensuring a Māori voice at the heart of policy making.
How we design our cities can make it harder to be healthy. City planners are now able to quantify the different elements that are affecting our health and well-being.
You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, governments in Canada have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on outside consulting firms like McKinsey, Deloitte and EY with almost no public oversight.
Indonesian public support for the death penalty declines when they learn more about its scope and administration.
Australians’ mental health has suffered terribly during COVID. They need to know what the plan is for a future pandemic.
After enduring a devastating wave of infections, deaths and lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, Italy is putting in place tougher anti-COVID measures, including a vaccine passport.
A fatherhood researcher argues that US work policies, income inequality, gender attitudes and health care all make it harder for dads to be highly engaged at home.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there is one policy area that is an even bigger disaster.
Many aspects of American society, from language to sports to fashion, remain structured or separated by gender.
How to keep food prices down? Use technology to change the way we produce food and public policy to ensure there’s a fair price put on things like climate change, human labour and animal welfare.
Many governments, including the US, already collect and make public population statistics that could help them prepare for the next pandemic.
Professionalism has to start with ministers for it to stand any chance of being embedded throughout the public service.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how much modern societies are governed by statistics. Despite their objective appearance, these numbers gain their strength from very human relationships.
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Professor of Government (Emeritus) University of Manchester and Research Associate, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Honorary Professor, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate, Institute of the Americas, UCL
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Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, Chair at Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Innovation and Impact, UNSW
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Research Associate, Department of Civil, Environment and Geomagnetic Engineering, UCL, UCL