Policy

Jennifer Peck, the founding executive director of Partnership for Children & Youth (PCY), a statewide afterschool intermediary organization in California, opened her remarks with a confession: “I’m going to admit right up front, when I started in this work 25 years ago, I had no idea what an intermediary was.” …

Netflix, the world’s leading streaming service, has announced a new policy aimed at cracking down on password sharing. The policy will limit the number of simultaneous streams allowed on a single account, making it more difficult for users to share their login credentials with others. The move comes as Netflix…

In this text, I comment a paper from the famous Journal of Economic Literature about the empirical consequences of privatization, in order to understand its state-of-the-art in economics. It’s a very important topic in policymaking, so I think it’s important for everyone to understand a little bit about it. In…

Interview with Mikuláš Bek, Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic — By Gaston Moonen As a new EU instrument, many aspects of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) stand out, such as the financial amounts involved, its emphasis on performance as a disbursement criterion, and its limited disbursement period. A common thread in many RRF aspects is the role of Member…

Welcome to our first signpost of 2023! Whether you’re a policy professional looking to collaborate with researchers, or a researcher looking to engage with policy, you’ll find examples of current and recent collaborations from across the University of Leeds here. Collaboration with Leeds City Council The University of Leeds has…

On 8th January 2023, it seemed like history was repeating itself and the spectacle that unfolded in Brasilia (Brazil’s capital) shocked the world but the shock was bearable. Brazil had its January 6 moment where supporters of the defeated rightist leader, Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, Presidential office, and Supreme…

New research finds when the fossil fuel industry grows, political forces opposed to climate policy also strengthen — Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, public opinion and social movement activity supporting more aggressive climate policies intensified. Nonetheless, U.S. governments have proved largely unable to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels recommended by scientists. The story at the federal level is largely one of elite polarization and gridlock: Republicans have…

A ‘black box model’ designed for use in the financial markets is a software program that analyses market data and produces a strategy for buying and selling based upon that analysis. There is an input and an output, but what occurs inside the black box is unknown. …