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…
This article considers how the global political economy of the SDGs – that is, the power and resource dynamics shaping sustainability narratives – imprints itself on relationships among cities and across levels of government in…
This study examines growth patterns and sources of labour productivity growth and catch-up in the electricity sector. The study uses decomposition analysis to examine 13 industrialized economies from 2000 to 2015, a period of high…
“If nothing this government says about a particular app or technology will convince some percentage of people to use it, then we need to ask deeper questions. An example is how transparent and participatory the…
Governments must recognise that technology does not exist in a vacuum but amid broader social, political and economic forces that are often unpredictable. The security and privacy concerns of citizens cannot be dismissed through assurances…
New ways of thinking about water governance may not be readily apparent, but society must establish the conditions that allow those ways of thinking to emerge. As long as we believe that there is always…
The COVID-19 crisis is no occasion to abandon progress on the types of participatory and collaborative capacities fundamental to strengthening state-society relations. https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/vietnam-lost-public-buy-in-its-covid-19-struggles-followed/ “Vietnam Lost Public Buy-in. Its COVID-19 Struggles Followed.” The Diplomat, 1 Sept…
Using data from 27 interviews with manufacturers and retailers, the study finds that high costs for production and marketing, along with lack of consumer interest, are among the most substantial barriers. To provide a system-wide…
Through the proverbial emperor’s clothes of the ‘smart’ label, technocratic rationalism is poised to reproduce itself within the liminal state of epistemic transition – it will promise novelty while delivering only repackaged dross. Feminist theory…
City diplomacy has a long history and has witnessed a clear sprawl over the last century. Successive “generations” of city diplomacy approaches have emerged over this period, with a heyday of networked urban governance in…
