This paper addresses current issues in ethics, public policy and public policy education. I have written about ethical issues in public policy research (Ballard and James) and I have developed codes of ethics in two organizational settings. Yet, this topic is a difficult one. To most public servants, "ethics" is either an abstract topic or one familiar to us only because of highly visible event...

The growing interoperability between policing and child protection in Canada and the United Kingdom suggests that we are in the midst of a governmental shift from community governance to public safety governance. Indeed, discourses emphasizing local expertise in policing and child protection have largely muted because of criticisms over the lack of interagency interconnectedness. Both countries...

During the past decades, the traditional state monopoly in urban water management has been debated heavily, resulting in different forms and degrees of private sector involvement across the globe. Since the 1990s, China has also started experiments with new modes of urban water service management and governance in which the private sector is involved. It is premature to conclude whether the var...

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• Smith Richardson Foundation Domestic Public Policy Fellowship, 2005-2006. • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant (with Dan Silverman), 2003-2004. • Yale University Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2003. • Yale University Social Science Research Fund, 2001. • W.P. Carey Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. • Review of Economic Studies European Tour, Ma...