The Alberta CoLab Story

Redesigning the policy development process in government

Alberta CoLab is an evolving experiment built on three counter-intuitive ideas:

Coadec’s Budget 2016 summary

Today the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered his 8th Budget. It was fairly light on tech announcements…

The UK’s minimum wage just grew up

The UK’s minimum wage turns 18 next year and already its life story is extraordinary. The Chancellor’s announcement this week of a National Living Wage of £9 an hour by 2020 means that, far from slumping into irrelevance, the policy has a newfound purpose as it enters…

It’s time we end conversion therapy.

In 1920, one of the most influential figures of history, Sigmund Freud published a paper called “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in Women”. This work, mostly ignored amidst the prolific psychologist’s papers, marks the beginning of a disturbing…

Palestra na School of Public Policy at Central European University

Vejam a matéria e o vídeo aqui:

Behavioral Science & Policy This Week (10.23.15)

O n the #policyshop blog this week, Rick Larrick…

Crafting “Heartless” Public Policy

Thursday’s “Iowa Poll” from The Des Moines Register found 59 percent of Iowans support a so-called “Death with Dignity” law that would allow patients the option of self-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, which was proposed in the Iowa Legislature but quickly…