Because a city is inseparable from its economic context, its analysis must be positioned in relation to the current and future forms of capitalism that define it. Examining the commonly deployed “sustainable” and “smart” narratives…
This chapter discusses the impact of social change on how society views governance quality in the era of complex and interconnected policy problems. This era presents a valuable opportunity to revisit tensions between the deepening…
PDF: Hartley_Cliburn-review_June-21-2022-e Review of Yunchan Lim’s Gold Medal winning performance at the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Sergey Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D-minor Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop June…
This study examines the state and development of public policy education in Thailand, including its dynamics over time, its institutional setting, and emerging forces acting upon it. It focuses on policy educational institutions, policy courses…
The challenges of coordination and mobilisation of capacity are more easily overcome than the challenges of lost trust, low public cooperation, and peripheral consequences like panic-buying. Hong Kong’s aborted mass testing episode has raised more…
“Hong Kong must recognise that creating more space for community groups to respond to crises is not a threat to government legitimacy,” Hartley said. “The best but probably hardest thing the Hong Kong government can…
Power dynamics shape and reshape water diplomacy and impact water conflicts, cooperation, and the status-quo. Analysis of conflict and cooperation can help specify the need for particular terms of agreement in water diplomacy. Institutional design…
This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy…
Emerging technologies are changing how groundwater policy decisions are made, by expanding monitoring and communications. The science-policy interface is facilitated by these technologies but also remains a primarily political dynamic, underscoring the importance of communication…
The principal dilemma facing China’s government concerns politics rather than public health: lose ideological face or suffer the adverse (economic) consequences of (self-imposed) isolation. At present, China seems to view the former as a bigger…
