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Source: Risk & Regulation Advisory Council, United Kingdom This report captures and explains the experience, knowledge and good practice developed by the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council. The guide explains how policy makers can apply the Council’s approach to their own public risk issues. Executive Summary (quote) “The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council has been [...]
January 30th, 2011
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The UK Government response to “Response with Responsibility: Policy making for Public risk in the 21st Century” Source: UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, December 2009 Summary (quote) “The Government welcomes the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council’s (RRAC) report. The Council have delivered tangible results, and have moved the debate on public risk significantly [...]
Source: Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, Department for Business, Education & Skills, United Kingdom Author: Dr Frederic Bouder is a lecturer at the Department of Governance, University of Maastricht. He was previously based at Kings College London. “Scares about public risk can have an enormous impact on policy making and regulation, particularly when they concern [...]
The five key elements of public risk communication Source: Government Office of Science The importance of public risk communication Scares about public risk can have an enormous impact on policy making and regulation, particularly when they concern children, human health and large scale tragic events. When a public risk is not properly addressed and communicated [...]
The World Bank’s Approach to Social Protection in a Globalizing World Source: Social Protection Department, The World Bank Authors: Robert Holzmann, Lynne Sherburne-Benz, and Emil Tesliuc ‘Social protection is moving up on the development agenda. Dismissed as ineffective, expensive or even detrimental to development in developing countries for a long time, it is now increasingly [...]
Manifestations, Drivers and Implications Source: Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration In politics and public administration, ‘credibility’ seems to have become an increasingly wanted, scarce and thus highly valued, commodity. An elected politician like president Obama is admired by many because of his credible appearance. Some communication formats used by governments are criticized for [...]
UK trade union bodies warn of risk to regional economies from cuts Read also article: Coalition cuts will hit poor 10 times harder than rich, says TUC (The Guardian) Why Robert Chote gets my vote, New Statesman Source: The Trades Union Congress (TUC), United Kingdom This is clear language. The statements and analyses are transparant. [...]
Economic crisis and institutional choice Source: Scientific Council for Government Policy Wim van de Donk, Chairman of the Scientific Council for Government Policy Preface: “Is the current crisis simply too big to reflect upon? Do the sheer complexity and the dazzling dynamics of the financial and economic crisis impede the possibility of learning some lessons [...]
Author: Sabrina Baker-Boshuizen, Marsh Public Sector Europe Source: RISK Management & Governance, Edition 6, Summer 2010 The financial and European Sovereign debt crises have had a huge impact on infrastructure investments. Infrastructure projects require extensive capital investment and downgrades of government debt have made funding of infrastructure projects more expensive. Whereas at the beginning of [...]
Author: Harry Sterk, Director of the Dutch Network* for Public Private Partnerships Source: RISK Management & Governance, Edition 6, Summer 2010 The major differences between traditional and PPP projects are, according to Harry sterk, the way costs are defined and how building plans are made. With a PPP project the total costs of a project [...]
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