Ian Roberge & Heather McKeen-Edwards 
Ineffective Policies [EPUB ebook] 
Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices

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

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, The Netherlands.