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Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices

Paperback by Winfield, Mark (York Univesity); Stirling, Madison (York University); Tusikov, Natasha (York University); Jesuit, David (Central Michigan University); Greitens, Thomas (Central Michigan University); Hasselbalch, Jacob (Copenhagen Business School); Wijermars, Mariëlle (Maastricht University); Kranke, Matthias (University of Kassel); Asquer, Alberto (SOAS University of London); Haggart, Blayne (Brock University); Lockwood, Erin (University of California);...

Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices

£27.99

ISBN:
9781447371557
Publication Date:
29 Apr 2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Imprint:
Policy Press
Pages:
242 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 - 30 Sep 2026
Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices

Description

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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.

Contents

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 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 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 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 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

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