The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recently released a new Administrative Policy (ES.C.4.1) that provides guidance on scheduling and hours of work requirements for minors working in both agricultural and non-agricultural industries. The policy outlines the requirements as specified in Washington statutes (RCW 49.12, RCW … Read more
US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts as former US Representative Lee Zeldin speaks at a rally ahead of the New Hampshire primary election in Concord, New Hampshire on January 19, 2024. ELIZABETH FRANTZ / REUTERS President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, November 11, named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the … Read more
Ahead of his inaugural LSE lecture, Adam Oliver describes how he became involved in the field of behavioural public policy, detailing how the intellectual architecture of the field came into existence and his hopes for how it might develop in the future. Over the past 15 years, behavioural public policy (BPP) has become an established … Read more
What will Donald Trump’s election as US President mean for trade? Robert Basedow writes that if the new administration stays true to its word, US trade policies will usher in a period of great instability in global economic governance and will have important implications for both the EU and the UK. On 6 November, Donald … Read more
Empirical analyses show that beyond a critique of elites and the demand to restore an allegedly lost popular sovereignty, “populists” have very little in common. Emmy Eklundh, Frank A. Stengel and Thorsten Wojczewski argue that we can only make sense of this if we understand populism not as an ideology with a fixed essence but … Read more
