Nov 28, 2018 | Policy Pod
By DAVID LEPOFSKY Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Toronto Visiting Professor of Legal Ethics and Public Interest Advocacy, Osgoode Hall Law School Canadian experience with accessibility legislation – what has Ontario done right or wrong on accessibility?...
Nov 26, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Justin Alsleben – Many people who are terminally ill, or otherwise suffer from serious and irremediable medical conditions, face prolonged and acute suffering at the end of their lives. These medical patients may experience a deteriorated quality of life...
Nov 23, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Susan St John – ‘Let’s not mindlessly raise the age, argues Susan St John, but try to solve actual problems ordinary people face’ Recently a prominent New Zealand weekly magazine ran the story “Fresh moves to raise the age of super to 67”. Yet the...
Nov 1, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Esme Hall – In this blog post I draw on insights from scholarship on political participation and analysis of the New Zealand Election Study from 2008 to 2017 to suggest ways of increasing youth engagement in the policy process. At every election there is a...
Oct 24, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Dr Tim Fadgen – As local and regional conflicts persist around the globe, and as environmental disasters become more frequent and increasingly severe, refugees are on the move. Concurrently, many nations and states around the world have signalled that people...
Jun 26, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Len Cook – The ‘Three Strikes’ law exists because a majority of Members of Parliament want it, although there is no evidence which exists to justify or shape it. This is not an unusual situation, and there are many examples of legislation being weakly...
May 8, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
‘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 gender...
Apr 26, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia – Big data technologies are increasingly being utilised in the field of social policy. Although big data methods and strategies are often preferred as a form of evidence-based policy development, big data techniques do...
