- Read more: How does the European Green Deal Enhance Social and Economic Inclusiveness?
This paper explores the European Union’s Green Deal (EGD) growth strategy, social market economy, and climate resilient implementation, drawing on survey data examining the governance and implementation of the EGD across 27 EU Member States. The author examines how Ireland’s deliberative democracy experience could provide essential food for thought to successfully implement EU Green Deal…
- Read more: The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms
How effectively can governments create supportive structures that enable the involvement of citizens in shaping policy? This paper examines one approach to doing so through a case study of the London Borough of Culture programme, identifying how such attempts may both enable and constrain citizen involvement.
- Read more: Implementation-minded policy making
This paper, written by a team of researchers from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, examines how bad implementation can result in policy failure. The authors show how successful policy implementation depends on the interaction between the content or ‘logic’ of the policy and the implementation context, highlighting…
- Read more: A National Human Biomonitoring for Ireland (HBM4IRE) programme feasibility study with ambitions for investigating chemical exposures among the population
Human biomonitoring is described as the ‘gold standard’ for chemical risk assessment as it can measure the systemic availability of human exposures to chemicals from all exposure sources and routes by analysing biological samples. This policy brief outlines the key findings and recommendations from the EPA-funded Human Biomonitoring for Ireland (HBM4IRE) project that examined the…
- Read more: Irish Aid Annual Report 2022
The Government of Ireland has published the “Irish Aid Annual Report 2022”.
- Read more: Tax Losses and Good Tax Governance in Ireland
The issues of tax transparency and tax regulation are at the centre of current debates on the fairness of tax systems. Where tax havens exist, they are often shrouded in secrecy, a secrecy that facilitates tax evasion
- Read more: Build Forward Public: The Case For A Post Pandemic Housing Imaginary
Expectations of paradigmatic change often overestimate the degree to which crises will result in change. The reality seems more consistent with Klein’s (2008 ‘Shock Doctrine’ which associates crisis with a reinforcement of neoliberalism. Our experiences of the 2008 crisis and subsequent austerity means we should not be rose-tinted about the likelihood of the pandemic re-baselining…
