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  Policy Quarterly Special issue: Assessing and Enhancing New Zealand's Productivity

  Vol. 14 No. 3 (2018)

  Lifting New Zealand’s productivity requires a broad reform agenda, ranging from topics such as matching skills to jobs, to lifting business investment and trade in services, and to improving government productivity. The opportunity is there – we need to take it.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 14 No. 2 (2018)
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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018)

  This issue provides a preliminary commentary on the digital economy and society.

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  Policy Quarterly Supplementary Issue

  Vol. 13 (2017)

  This supplementary issue of Policy Quarterly draws together such important contributions to postdevelopmental demographic processes including depopulation and population expansion, with a focus on subnational New Zealand.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 13 No. 4 (2017)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly commences with five articles on aspects of government regulation in New Zealand. The remaining eight articles include five articles on various topical policy issues and three articles are from students in the Graduate Pathway Programme in the School of Government

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 13 No. 3 (2017)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly focuses on some of the important policy issues facing New Zealand as it enters the 2017 general election campaign.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly explores the governance of the least governed reaches of our planet, the open ocean.  Other excellent papers relevant to wider environmental policy and to regulation were selected and included in this special issue.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly explores the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century through the lens of ‘global studies’. The articles are mostly based on papers presented at a conference at Victoria University of Wellington in late July 2016 entitled ‘We the Peoples: global citizenship and constitutionalism’.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 12 No. 4 (2016)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly addresses issues of local government in New Zealand. We also offer a number of papers on urbanisation and infrastructure.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 12 No. 3 (2016)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly offers eleven perspectives on the broad theme of ‘advancing better government’. While the topics are diverse, they all have a strong New Zealand focus and significant policy implications.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 12 No. 2 (2016)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly leads with three articles on climate change, asking what are the stakes and what can New Zealand do?

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 12 No. 1 (2016)

  Special issue: Protecting nature. This issue of Policy Quarterly focuses on governing human-naturerelationships for the future, seeking to trigger deeper reflections than what we are currently used to in policy debates. Biodiversity, sustainability and climate change issues feature.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 11 No. 4 (2015)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly traverses a range of contemporary policy issues including the governance of Auckland, climate change, financial incentives to work, the investment approach to funding social assistance, regulatory design and stewardship, water management, special education, the implications of uncertainty for policy practice, and the ethical issues surrounding the use and commercialisation of public health data. Professor Ross Garnaut, a distinguished Australian economist and the Frank Holmes Fellow in 2015, also responds to earlier commentary on his Holmes Memorial lecture.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 11 No. 3 (2015)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly gives attention to two policy issues: first, the problem of child poverty and the government’s announcement of measures to address this problem via a Child Hardship Package in the 2015 Budget; and second, the ethics of active voluntary euthanasia.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 11 No. 2 (2015)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly has contributions by the Australian economist Professor Ross Garnaut, the 2015 Sir Frank Holmes Fellow in Public Policy, and fellow commentators. It focuses on global governance in the 21st century, and includes articles on governance of our National Parks, use of predictive analytics in policy-making, the nature and implications of governmental decentralisation, the future of social housing, protecting the interests of future generations, and the implications of residential sorting for inequality.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly brings together two major, interconnected concerns: the inequalities faced by women and income inequality in New Zealand. It concludes with a challenge to the views expressed by Unsworth in the previous issue.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 10 No. 4 (2014)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly features articles and presentations from two symposia, the first dealing with New Zealand’s regulatory system and the second the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. The final items include an IGPS Working Paper on ‘Vested Interests’ and two papers presented at a roundtable on lobbying.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 10 No. 3 (2014)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly looks at population ageing, one of the most significant issues facing New Zealand in the coming decades. There is also  text of the 2014 Sir Frank Holmes Memorial Lecture and a held over article on water governance.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 10 No. 2 (2014)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly features material on restorative justice, plus articles New Zealand’s poor productivity record; aspects of public management; and environmental management.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014)

  Articles in this issue of Policy Quarterly address the ability of New Zealanders to participate meaningfully in their communities; environmental developments; stewardship; and recent regulatory failures.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 9 No. 4 (2013)

  This issue of Policy Quarterly explores the Treasury’s recently released report, Affording Our Future: Statement on New Zealand’s Long-Term Fiscal Position, and some of the major policy issues raised by this significant document.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 9 No. 3 (2013)

  The nine articles in this issue of Policy Quarterly cover a range of important contemporary policy problems – national and international, macro and micro.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 9 No. 2 (2013)

  Much of this issue of Policy Quarterly is devoted to the nature, measurement and impacts of child poverty, and possible solutions.

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 9 No. 1 (2013)

  This special edition of Policy Quarterly draws readers into this fundamental discussion: how do we move towards more sustainable energy systems? What is the role of policy and governance in facilitating sustainable consumption patterns and the transition of the supply side of energy systems towards new, renewable fuels and energy technologies?

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  Policy Quarterly

  Vol. 8 No. 4 (2012)

  The first three items in this issue of Policy Quarterly revisit a central aspect of relationships among Westminster-derived executives, namely, the obligation of officials to give advice to ministers.