Inappropriate policies


  • Misguided priorities
  • Inadequate strategies
  • Erroneous decisions
  • Policy-making errors
  • Uninformed policy decisions

Incidence

In the UK in 1993 a study concluded that misguided government policies since 1980 were to blame for frustrated expectations, increasing resentment and a refusal to comply with the law.

It has been estimated that as many as 18 million people were killed in China as a result of policies followed in pursuit of the Cultural Revolution between 1965 and 1976. Many of these had been deliberately killed. Since the 1950s, 80 millions had died there, their deaths being unnecessarily accelerated by Chinese policies, 40 million of them from hunger. In the years of the Great Leap Forward, there had been 40 million deaths, of whom 2 to 3 million had been executed. In 1957, up to 1 million people had been executed.

Claim

  1. There will always be those who derive unfair benefits from a public policy, and those who suffer because of that public policy. It is impossible to draw a line that suits everyone.

Narrower

  1. Unrealistic policies
  2. Unjustified military defence policies
  3. Social environmental degradation from recreation and tourism
  4. Self-interested government foreign policies
  5. Rigid personnel hiring policies
  6. Restrictive trade union policies concerning employment
  7. Restrictive social policies
  8. Restrictive macro-economic policies
  9. Restrictive environmental policies
  10. Policy shock
  11. Neglect of environmental consequences of government policies
  12. Intergovernmental organization mismanagement
  13. Ineffectiveness of foreign aid
  14. Ineffective educational policy decisions
  15. Inappropriate transport policy
  16. Inappropriate development policy
  17. Inadequate governmental resource conservation policies
  18. Inadequate governmental energy conservation policies
  19. Inadequate fiscal policies
  20. Inadequate economic policy-making
  21. Inadequate credit policies
  22. Inadequate adaptation of policy to educational difficulties
  23. Imposition of national priorities on other countries
  24. Failure to adapt general initiatives to specific needs
  25. Failure of government intelligence services
  26. Failure of development policies
  27. Distortion of international trade by discriminatory government and private procurement policies
  28. Detrimental international repercussions of domestic agricultural policies
  29. Dependence of government revenue on inappropriate policies
  30. Damage to the environment during national crises
  31. Cost overruns in large-scale public programmes
  32. Antagonism between employment policy and technical advance
  33. Aggressive foreign policy


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