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Ineffective Policies
Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices
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Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Topics
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures and tables
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Notes on contributors
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Acknowledgment
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Ineffective policies: causes and consequences of bad policy decisions
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Giving serious thought to bad policy and the state of democracy
15 - Ineffective policies, contested goals
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From good to bad? The contested desirability of economic growth
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What a bad policy idea! Exploring views on wind farms in Italy
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Satoshi meets the state: bad policy in Uncle Sam’s initial encounters with Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology
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Toronto’s failed smart city: intellectual property, data, and bad governance
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Letting the solution define the problem: Canada’s COVID Alert app as a case of failed policy
98 - Ineffective policies, negative outcomes
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Toxic growth in the circular economy: is the EU Plastics Strategy a bad policy?
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The environment, megacity growth, and ineffective policy: housing policy reform in Ontario
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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
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Borrowing money from the fringes: the problematic regulation of payday loans in Canada and the US
171 - The bad impacts of ineffective policies
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Bad policies and the erosion of trust in comparative perspective
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The path forward: addressing bad policy for the sake of good policy
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 18, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781447371564
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
242
Other:
13 Black and White
eBook ISBN:
9781447371564
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
