Auckland Policy Commons
CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP: Rethinking Social Welfare Summit 2018
By Mike O'Brien - In this, the 80th anniversary of the passage of the Social Security Act 1938, the annual Child Poverty Action Group summit in Wellington was a very good opportunity to review directions and future possibilities. Bringing together the wide range of...
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Alan France: The poor stay poor and the rich get rich – everybody knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes, everybody knows...
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A Better, But Not as Yet, Good Parliament: The UK House of Commons 2016-2018
Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, Birkbeck College University of London and...
Equal pay starts with transparency
By Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy - If everyone knows what their peers are getting paid, it is much...
Melinda Webber: Ethnic ‘mixedness’ on the rise
As ethnic 'mixedness' is on the rise, the message is that individuals must find their own way...
PM’s Baby Is a Chance to Improve Parliament for Parents
By Jennifer Curtin - [At at a conference of Speakers and Clerks from Australia and the Pacific...
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Professor Paul Cairney: Why don’t policymakers listen to my evidence, and how should I respond?
Thursday 11 October - 4pm OGGB 5 (Room 051) University of Auckland Business School 12 Grafton Road Since 2016, my most common academic presentation to interdisciplinary scientist/researcher audiences is a variant of the question, ‘why don’t policymakers listen to...
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Latest Policy POD
Alasdair Jones: Mixed methods policy evaluation, bus fare concessions and public health impact
Alasdair Jones is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology at the London School of Economics, and an Associate at LSE Cities. In this episode of the Policy Pod he talks about ways of conceptualising the integration of qualitative methodologies and...
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Professor Susan Himmelweit: ‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality’ ▶️
‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality: The experience of the UK Women’s Budget Group’ Since 1989, the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG), a group of academics, activists and trade unionists, has tried to hold successive UK governments to account for the...
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