Table of Content
1. 1. Ineffective policy: causes and consequences of bad policy decisions – Ian Roberge, Heather Mc Keen-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 Policy, 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 Policy, 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 Mc Keen-Edwards
Part 3: The Bad Impacts of Ineffective Policy
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
About the author
Ian Roberge is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration, York University.Heather Mc Keen-Edwards is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Bishop’s University.
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is Assistant Professor at the Center for International Relations Research, University of Groningen.