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The Italian government tried to limit the type of companies that could use crowd-sourced funding with poor results, Australia can learn from this.
The government should be encouraging informal investors to put their money into start-ups, not barring them from tax offsets that encourage them to do so.
Why the British steel crisis needs strategic government intervention to give the industry a chance of survival.
Transparency and accountability will help the Chinese government to tackle environmental problems that are hindering its chances for economic growth.
One in five government employees are experiencing or observing workplace cyberbullying, a study shows.
State-owned companies are not generally needed to provide goods. Rather, they are needed to provide the foundation for a well-functioning economy and a healthy, well-informed populace.
‘Sortition’ could offer a way to reinvigorate our democracy – and it’s already being trialled.
With more and more street artists partnering with corporations, it’s important that they don’t compromise their moral standing to earn a living.
Mozambique has long standing energy challenges and widespread energy poverty. To change this, particularly for people living in rural areas, it needs to democratise the way it supplies energy.
Malcolm Turnbull has drawn on his experience in the IT industry to create a new vision of ‘agile’ government.
The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason. But research indicates that it actually has many possible futures.
Government departments often commission research to help them understand and respond to policy issues. But they impose contract conditions that threaten to undermine the integrity of the work.
The backroom staff of our biggest bureaucracies are an easy political target, but making good on promises for cuts is harder than it looks.
While Conservative pundits wonder why high scores for economic competence aren’t boosting poll numbers, some clues might lie away from financial measures.
The ease with which a hoaxer was recently able to call the prime minister’s mobile phone, pretending to be the head of GCHQ, highlights a major dilemma for democratic political leaders. Cameron said he…
In the UK, thanks to the freedom of information (FoI) laws, the right to know has become routine. Ten years old this month, freedom of information laws have enabled us to inspect a public document, obtain…
Federation in 1901 is now the middle point between 2014 and the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. Despite this, most views of federation, if Australians have one at all, are probably shaped by its…
Popular conceptions of government tend to derive from media representations of politicians in action, political speeches, yesterday in parliament, elections, scandal, controversy and so on. And the politics…
The introduction of scientific principles into government decision-making began with the publication of the Haldane Report in 1918. Haldane believed that research should play a key role in government and…
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