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Joint or Shared Accountability: Issues and Options

Joint or Shared Accountability: Issues and Options Boston, Jonathan; Gill, Derek Responsible and responsive government depends on effective accountability – at all levels within the state. To this end,...

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Paid domestic work: A private matter or a public policy issue?

Paid domestic work: A private matter or a public policy issue? Callister, Paul; Tortell, Lisa; Williams, Jessie In industrialised countries most of the goods and services traditionally undertaken in...

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The new governance arrangements for the public health sector and the need for...

The new governance arrangements for the public health sector and the need for wider public sector reform Cook, Len; Hughes, Robert Across the OECD countries the organisation of the public health...

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Climate Change and Food Security

Climate Change and Food Security Weaver, Sean This paper explores the global trends associated with food security and climate change and the linkages between them. This comes at a time of unprecedented...

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Financial abuse of older people in New Zealand

Financial abuse of older people in New Zealand Davey, Judith A; McKendry, Jayne This working paper is linked to a workshop hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington,...

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Restructuring – an over-used lever for change in New Zealand’s state sector?

Restructuring – an over-used lever for change in New Zealand’s state sector? Norman, Richard; Gill, Derek Is restructuring the hammer of organisational change in New Zealand’s state sector? A State...

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Low skill temporary migration in New Zealand: Labour market and human rights...

Low skill temporary migration in New Zealand: Labour market and human rights law as a framework for managing future migration Williams, Jessie International labour mobility has been on the rise in...

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New Zealand and its Small Island Neighbours: A Review of New Zealand Policy...

New Zealand and its Small Island Neighbours: A Review of New Zealand Policy Toward the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tuvalu Bertram, I.G.; Watters, R.F. In 1984 the Ministry of Foreign...

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Leading for a purpose - Managerial leadership and strategic performance in...

Leading for a purpose - Managerial leadership and strategic performance in public organisations McLeod, Ross Public sector organisations exist to achieve outcomes that will benefit the society or...

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Families, Ageing and Migration: Indian Communities in Auckland, Wellington...

Families, Ageing and Migration: Indian Communities in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch Davey, Judith; Keeling, Sally; Zodgekar, Arvind The migration of older people to join family members in other...

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The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: A step in the right direction?

The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: A step in the right direction? Bullock, David This paper examines the development, features, merits and likely impacts of the New Zealand Emissions Trading...

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Authorising Environment: Mapping Role Designation and Practice in the New...

Authorising Environment: Mapping Role Designation and Practice in the New Zealand Model- A review of the New Zealand literature Eppel, Elizabeth The starting proposition for the Authorising Environment...

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Experimentation and Learning in Policy Implementation: Implications for...

Experimentation and Learning in Policy Implementation: Implications for Public Management Eppel, Elizabeth; Turner, David; Wolf, Amanda Policy objectives often can be simply stated. Yet, policy...

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Post-2012 Burden Sharing: Towards an Ethical Approach

Post-2012 Burden Sharing: Towards an Ethical Approach Kengmana, Lucas; Boston, Jonathan This paper explores how the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change should be shared by the...

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Partnering and the ideal state : limits to collaboration

Partnering and the ideal state : limits to collaboration Prebble, Mark Networks, collaboration and partnerships between the government and community groups offer prospects for stronger governance and...

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Assessing ‘Good Governance’ and Corruption in New Zealand: ‘Scientific’...

Assessing ‘Good Governance’ and Corruption in New Zealand: ‘Scientific’ Measurement, Political Discourse, and Historical Narrative Gregory, Robert New Zealand is ranked highly on the Worldwide...

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Flexi-Super: Not Really Such a Great Idea

Flexi-Super: Not Really Such a Great Idea Rashbrooke, Geoff Flexi-super is a proposal to allow people to begin receiving New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) between the ages of 60 and 70, instead of at...

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Collaborative Governance Case Studies: The Land and Water Forum

Collaborative Governance Case Studies: The Land and Water Forum Eppel, Elizabeth Looking at collaborative processes in retrospect is always easier than it was at the time they were first happening....

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Governance of a Complex System : Water

Governance of a Complex System : Water Eppel, Elizabeth Fresh water is a life-enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development. It is continuously...

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Vested Interests

Vested Interests James, Colin In 2010-11 three government policy initiatives aroused controversy and accusations of special treatment for "vested interests": a change in workplace relations law to meet...

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Connectedness & Canterbury. How did government agencies connect in response...

Connectedness & Canterbury. How did government agencies connect in response to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011? Parish, Catrin The Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010 and 2011...

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The TINZ National Integrity System Assessment 2013 and the Open Government...

The TINZ National Integrity System Assessment 2013 and the Open Government Partnership: From findings to recommendations and on to implementation Petrie, Murray The 2013 National Integrity System...

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The "investment approach" – liabilities or assets?

The "investment approach" – liabilities or assets? James, Colin In 2011 the government adopted from the Accident Compensation Corporation via the Welfare Working Group a programme of actuarially...

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Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Preliminary Report Providing Updated Data...

Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Preliminary Report Providing Updated Data from SOFIE Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried...

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Permanent Forest Bonds: A pioneering environmental impact bond for Aotearoa...

Permanent Forest Bonds: A pioneering environmental impact bond for Aotearoa New Zealand Hall, David; Lindsay, Sam; Judd, Sam Section 1: The challenge is to establish permanent forest on vulnerable land...

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Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Final Report

Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Final Report Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried out a longitudinal survey known as the...

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Review of New Zealand Police’s progress in response to the 2007 Commission of...

Review of New Zealand Police’s progress in response to the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct Rowe, Mike; Macaulay, Michael In 2007 the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Police...

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Bridges Both Ways. Transforming the Openness of New Zealand Government.

Bridges Both Ways. Transforming the Openness of New Zealand Government. Rashbrooke, Max One of New Zealand’s great strengths is its easy-going, ‘she’ll be right’ attitude; but every strength can become...

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The Case for New Climate Change Adaption. Funding Instruments.

The Case for New Climate Change Adaption. Funding Instruments. Boston, Jonathan; Lawrence, Judy Adapting to climate change during the 21st century and beyond poses unprecedented technical,...

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From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for...

From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves Eppel, Elizabeth; Provoost, Donna; Karacaoglu, Girol The...

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How effective are 2018 policy settings for the worst-off children?

How effective are 2018 policy settings for the worst-off children? St John, Susan; So, Yun This report analyses the policy settings in mid-2018 for their potential to improve the position of the...

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Does an empirical Heckman curve exist?

Does an empirical Heckman curve exist? Rea, David; Burton, David The Heckman Curve suggests that the rate of return to public investments in human capital declines across the life course. This paper...

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Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and...

Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian;...

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Can We Keep Flying? Decarbonising New Zealand’s Domestic and International...

Can We Keep Flying? Decarbonising New Zealand’s Domestic and International Aviation Rae, Wallace; Callister, Paul There is a recognition in New Zealand of an urgent need to decarbonise our economy. Two...

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Fiscal History

Fiscal History Rose, Dennis This paper is based on a presentation to a Symposium, "Well-being, budget responsibility rules and the Public Finance Act", hosted on 15 April 2019 by the Institute of...

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Life in lockdown: The economic and social effect of lockdown during Alert...

Life in lockdown: The economic and social effect of lockdown during Alert Level 4 in New Zealand Prickett, Kate C.; Fletcher, Michael; Chapple, Simon; Doan, Nguyen; Smith, Conal On March 25th 2020 New...

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Economic policy in the public sphere: A perspective from New Zealand

Economic policy in the public sphere: A perspective from New Zealand Makhlouf, Gabriel; Mukherjee, Udayan In this essay, our aim is to reflect on the uses of economics in policy in New Zealand, and...

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Is the Commerce Act 1986 fit for purpose?: A blueprint for a new Commerce Act

Is the Commerce Act 1986 fit for purpose?: A blueprint for a new Commerce Act Bertram, Geoff As New Zealand’s experiment with deregulation limps unsteadily into its fourth decade, documented cases of...

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Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and...

Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian;...

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