- Read more: The use of finance as a catalyst to develop a scaling ecosystem
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has published a report: The use of finance as a catalyst to develop a scaling ecosystem. The report provides recommendations for policy changes, based on the work of the Finance for Scaling Working Group, to promote and enhance the existing scaling options in Ireland. The report is available…
- Read more: Human Rights in Irish Policing
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has published a report, “Human Rights in Irish Policing: Analysing the Implementation of the Recommendations from the Commission on the Future of Irish Policing”. The report finds that while some progress has been made on the Commission’s overall recommendation to introduce a human-rights based approach to policing in…
- Read more: Irish policy making and planning for a possible future united Ireland
Policy planning for a future united Ireland is foundational, difficult and dangerous. At basis, it involves the Irish government providing a model of a united Ireland to be put to all the people of the island in concurrent referendums in each jurisdiction. If planners get it wrong – if for example there is a yes…
- Read more: On a plane with Nicolas Schmit, the lead-candidate of the European Socialists in the coming EU elections
Sunday morning. 7 April. Nicolas Schmit, the EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights and Spitzenkandidat of the European Socialist for the coming EU elections and I bump into each other on board a morning flight to Charleroi. Schmit is returning from an election campaign rally in Romania. I am on the way to a European…
- Read more: How young people facing disadvantage view democracy in Europe
The Think-tank for Action on Social Change (TASC) has published a co-authored policy brief that provides insight into how young people who experience socioeconomic disadvantage perceive politics and democracy in their country.
- Read more: Irish Aid Annual Report 2022
The Government of Ireland has published the “Irish Aid Annual Report 2022”.
- Read more: NESC Report: Inequality and Well-Being Frameworks
This report examines well-being frameworks as an approach for identifying and addressing inequalities. “Such frameworks have been increasingly developed since 2008 as a way of moving away from a focus on gross domestic product (GDP) in order to measure a country’s outcomes (e.g. economic, social, environmental).” Read the report here.
- Read more: Translating evidence into practice during COVID 19: a systematic review of measures used to reduce transmission in nursing homes.
This paper highlights the evidence of a rapid systematic review of measures in long-term residential care facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic. It presents the evidence base for multiple control measures for reducing transmissions, the implications of current practices and evidence-based policy recommendations, as well as the importance of academic research within public health management to…
- Read more: Lobbying and the Online Influence Industry – Reactionary Regulation of Data Driven Political Campaigns
The extent and sophistication of online political campaigning during democratic processes was largely overlooked until lacunas in election regulation were identified around digital advertising following the 2016 Brexit referendum and US Presidential elections. Since then, both research and regulation have largely focused on the three main issues identified in the 2016 election: election advertising, mis/disinformation…
- Read more: “Sludge” in Irish Policymaking
Some policies are not as effective as they could be, and “sludge” might be one reason for that. Sludge is the term that behavioural scientists use to describe excessive or unjustified frictions that make it harder for people to do what they want (Sunstein 2021; Thaler 2018). These frictions can come in the form of…
