Jacqueline Best

What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why It Matters 0
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- 6 mars 2015
When things go wrong in politics, the word ‘failure’ gets bandied around a lot. In recent weeks, we’ve heard about the failure of Canadian drug policy (as admitted by Stephen Harper), the failure of Canadian diplomatic efforts to get Barack …
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What Economic Uncertainty Means for Canadian Policymakers 0
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- 23 octobre 2014
If you have been reading the financial press over the past week, you know that the global economy’s chances are looking a lot more uncertain these days. What you may not know, however, is that this more recent upswing in …
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Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure 0
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- 11 septembre 2014
An earlier version of this essay appeared on RegBlog.org

Nobody likes to admit failure—least of all government-funded development organizations in hard economic times. Yet recent years have seen a number of prominent development agencies confess to failure. The International Monetary …
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The Austerity Trap 0
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- 4 décembre 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In …
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Economic Exceptionalism 0
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- 13 octobre 2011
In the aftermath of 9/11, we entered a moment of political exceptionalism: we were told that in normal times, certain basic civil rights applied, but these were exceptional times and the normal rules didn’t apply. Suddenly, practices like torture, detention …
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What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why It Matters 0