Regulatory systems, institutions and practices
Regulation is a fact of life. It affects the food we eat, the safety of our workplace, the goods and services we buy and sell and the quality of our natural environment. It plays an important role in...
View ArticleImproving the implementation of regulation: time for a systemic approach
The importance of an ‘efficient and effective regulatory environment’ (Offices of the Ministers of Finance and Regulatory Reform, 2013) has never been more prominent in New Zealand than it is at the...
View ArticleRegulatory coherence: blending trade and regulatory policy
Regulatory coherence has over the past four years become a term of art for domestic regulatory systems which interface seamlessly with the systems of other countries. And yet a precise or at least...
View ArticleWhy departments need to be regulatory stewards
Some of the most important assets that the New Zealand government develops and maintains are not recorded on the Crown's balance street. They are the regulatory arrangements that have been developed,...
View ArticleEmerging regulatory issues intellectual property and global value chains
Discusses the emergence through trade and investment agreements of a changed approach to the objectives of intellectual property protection, and the challenges that approach presents for...
View ArticleA comparative perspective on reforming the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act
This model grants to legislatures ultimate responsibility for the resolution of controversial rights issues while at the same time seeking to improve the rights sensitivity of the legislative process...
View ArticleFiring blanks? The Arms Trade Treaty
This paper assesses key provisions of the ATT by first back-grounding its origins and contested formulation before assessing its transfer, prohibition and national control provisions, Introduction The...
View ArticleLifestyle and embodied energy: A proposed hybrid analysis method for housing
This thesis set out to form a bridge between the disciplines of architectural history, social and women’s history, building technology and environmental assessment, by investigating changes to existing...
View ArticlePensions, savings and housing: a life-cycle framework with policy simulations
The paper develops a model to assess the saving and consumption responses of a representative household to a range of policy interventions such as changes in taxes and pension settings. Abstract The...
View ArticleThe welfare gain from a new good: an introduction
This note provides an elementary introduction to the measurement of welfare gains from the introduction of a new good, based on the concept of the ‘virtual price’ and standard expressions for welfare...
View ArticleJustice under anarchy: Rawlsian global justice with New Zealand as a case study
This thesis makes an argument for global justice by exploring neglected areas of Rawlsian theory, and using New Zealand as a case study. Summary In giving its view of global justice, the thesis argues...
View ArticleGovernance of national parks at the crossroads: New Zealand’s silent reform
New Zealand’s national parks are major attractions for tourism and recreation, while hosting other commercial activities considered compatible with that primary role, like grazing, commercial filming...
View ArticleLocal Governance National Dialogue
The Local Governance National Dialogue aims to develop a conversation based around research-informed discussion papers and a series of regional events to consider what type of local governance will...
View ArticleThe "investment approach" – liabilities or assets?
In 2011 the NZ government adopted from the Accident Compensation Corporation via the Welfare Working Group a programme of actuarially estimating the cost of someone staying long-term on a benefit and...
View ArticleBudget 2015: the government’s welfare policy, a positive view
Nearly four years ago, Prime Minister John Key announced a major reform of the welfare system. He defined the problem with the existing system in the following terms: The stand-out feature of New...
View ArticleLooking back-looking forward? Institutional aspects of New Zealand approaches...
Examines the history of how New Zealand’s institutions for nature conservation have developed. Summary To understand New Zealand approaches to nature conservation it is instructive to look back in...
View ArticleEU and US perspectives on fair dealing for the purpose of parody or satire
This article concerns the interpretation of the defence of fair dealing ‘for the purpose of parody or satire’, a defence that was added to the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) in 2006. The Copyright...
View ArticleSo near yet so far: implications for the Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption...
This article explores some of the implications that arise from New Zealand’s Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Legislation Bill (OCACL), which was passed into law on 5 November 2015 and came into...
View ArticleUnderstanding insecure work
This report examines insecure work in NZ from four perspectives. It is a collaborative effort to increase our understanding of the insecure work landscape in NZ by utilising two waves of the Survey of...
View ArticleA new deal for families
This opinion-piece, from the Professor of Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington, outlines ways the new Bill English-led Government could assist less well-off families in New Zealand....
View Article
