Ineffective Policies

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 - Marielle 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