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Bad policies have repercussions that can be felt for decades. But what makes a bad policy? And how can it be reversed or improved?
Bringing together scholars from Europe and North America, this book goes beyond traditional policy theory to study bad and ineffective policies across three fields:
the environment;
the financial services sector; and
emerging technologies.
Using cutting-edge research and analysis, the editors and authors state the case for studying ineffective policies, demonstrate their harmful effects across policy fields and provide policy makers with the tools to reflect, identify, and act upon them.
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Much public policy in Europe and North America can be described as ineffective. From plastic waste management to bitcoin regulation, governments design policies that dont do the job they are intended for, with bad outcomes for society. This diverse group of scholars brings new conceptual depth and compelling empirical insight to ineffective policy. Their efforts give a fresh perspective on just how far we have to go in Europe and North America to develop genuinely good, effective policies. Matthew Wood, University of Sheffield
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 - Mariėlle
Wijermars and Ian Roberge
Part 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 Sams initial encounters with
Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology - Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
6. Torontos failed smart city: intellectual property, data, and bad
governance - Natasha Tusikov
7. Letting the solution define the problem: Canadas COVID Alert app as a
case of failed policy - Blayne Haggart
Part 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 Rules 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
Ian Roberge is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University
Heather McKeen-Edwards is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Bishops University.
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations and International Organization, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Groningen.
