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…
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…
