Tara Garnett ‘The food system is broken’ says Oxfam. Government scientific advisors warn of a ‘perfect storm’ of global events influenced [...]
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Category "Policy & Politics"
Policy Briefing: Oil, Conservation and Development in Belize
Leon Sealey-Huggins ‘Fi Wee Belize’ Pickney march tru di street di sing yah dah fu wee Belize mis Matie cross di street di halla yah [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Northern Ireland – where is the peace dividend?
Colin Knox The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated by [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: There is More than One Way to Involve the Public in Policy Decisions
Rikki Dean The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: The Challenges of Implementing Targets in UK Government – A ‘Multiple Streams’ Approach
Christina Boswell and Eugenia Rodrigues The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: How politics and power create poor health – ‘I think they’re trying to kill folk aff’
Mhairi Mackenzie, Chik Collins, John Connolly, Mick Doyle and Gerry McCartney The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in [...]
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Policy Briefing: Prostitution law and policy in England – the limits of liberalism
Natasha Mulvihill Buying and selling sex in England is legal. As long as the exchange of money for sex is discreet [...]
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Policy Briefing: Marketisation, direct payments, disability justice and austerity
Teodor Mladenov The marketisation of public services has been widely discussed by social policy analysts, but what is seldom emphasised in [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Assessing the Long-Now
Victoria Johnson and Frank Boons Within weeks of coming into power, the newly elected Conservative government had binned 9 low-carbon [...]
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Policy Briefing: The Nudge Business
Geof Rayner “Engineering shifts in social norms is a far from trivial task." (Mind, Society and Behavior: World Development Report 2015. [...]
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