Social Policy: Old War, New Weapons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo M. Giugale
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Public Policy Debate

Why did Piketty’s work pique our sudden interest in inequality? The publication in 2014 of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought inequality to the center of the public policy debate.1 Looking at lots of historical data, Piketty found that...

scholarly journals Global development in the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Garnaut
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twenty First Century

Frank Holmes was a New Zealand leader of what my recent book, Dog Days: Australia after the Boom, calls the independent centre of the polity. He saw great value in careful and transparent analysis of the public interest, separate from any vested or partisan political interest. The success of public policy in any democracy in these troubled times depends on the strength of a strong independent centre.

Hospices: Perspectives on the public policy debate.

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1271-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda H. Aiken ◽  
Martita M. Marx
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Policy Debate

scholarly journals Proper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Index

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Guth ◽  
Robyn Anderson ◽  
Kasey Kinnard ◽  
Hang Tran
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
The Future ◽  
Public Policy Debate

The Global Slavery Index aims to, among other objectives, recognize the forms, size, and scope of slavery worldwide as well as the strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. An analysis of the Index’s methods exposes significant and critical weaknesses and raises questions into its replicability and validity. The Index may prove more valuable in the future if proper methods are implemented, but the longer improper methods are used the more damage is done to the public policy debate on slavery by advancing data and policy that is not based on sound methodology. To implement proper methods, a committee of sophisticated methodologists needs to develop measurement tools and constantly analyze and refine these methods over the years as data is collected.

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