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Home Again: Rehabilitating State Policy Experiments

BY Philippa Howden-Chapman

Public health policy researcher Philippa Howden-Chapman calls on the New Zealand government to be an active state, embarking on a programme of bold social policy experiments to address stubborn and damaging social problems. Recalling past governments’ willingness to innovate, she criticises the current government’s passivity in the face of seemingly intractable problems.

Home Again: Rehabilitating State Policy Experiments