Ineffective Policies : Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberge, Ian.

Contributor:

McKeen-Edwards, Heather.

Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgment

Ineffective policies: causes and consequences of bad policy decisions

Giving serious thought to bad policy and the state of democracy

Ineffective policies, contested goals

From good to bad? The contested desirability of economic growth

What a bad policy idea! Exploring views on wind farms in Italy

Satoshi meets the state: bad policy in Uncle Sam’s initial encounters with Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology

Toronto’s failed smart city: intellectual property, data, and bad governance

Letting the solution define the problem: Canada’s COVID Alert app as a case of failed policy

Ineffective policies, negative outcomes

Toxic growth in the circular economy: is the EU Plastics Strategy a bad policy?

The environment, megacity growth, and ineffective policy: housing policy reform in Ontario

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

Borrowing money from the fringes: the problematic regulation of payday loans in Canada and the US

The bad impacts of ineffective policies

Bad policies and the erosion of trust in comparative perspective

The path forward: addressing bad policy for the sake of good policy

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-4473-7156-9