Max Rashbrooke is the author of Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action http://www.maxrashbrooke.org.nz/
The election is over. So what does Jacinda Ardern's government need to focus on?
What needs to happen for the government to allow broken communities to rebuild?
There's more to the finance minister's controversial move than meets the eye, argues Max Rashbrooke.
Reform must be based on the idea that we should each have the same influence over politics, and emulating Canada is a good place to start.
Encouraging 'interventions' without addressing issues of poverty is a bit like trying to prop up a crumbling brick wall with a piece of four-by-two.
As we approach the end of what Jacinda Ardern called the 'year of delivery', and with the next election a year away, what is the state of play with the critical working groups?
Despite the bitter disappointment of those who backed capital gains tax for a win, it's not the only horse in the wealth tax race. Max Rashbrooke studies the form guide.
The UBI has been the hottest new idea of recent years, but Max Rashbrooke reckons it doesn't add up, and there's another, stronger option
As the Labour-led government approaches its first birthday, Max Rashbrooke attempts to divine whether there is a coherent ideological direction
Prime Minister Bill English made an unexpected commitment last night to cut the number of kids living in poverty by 50,000 over the next three years, and another 50,000 in the three years following. What exactly does he mean by that, asks Max Rashbrooke – and could his plan ever even work?
What's the best response to the threat to political norms – and, some say, to democracy itself – posed by President Donald Trump? According to the NZ-born, New York-based political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, it's civility, reason and restraint. Max Rashbrooke talked to him during a recent visit back home.
It is well-known that poverty and inequality have soared under National. Well-known – and unsupported by the evidence, writes Max Rashbrooke
New Zealand's greatest reality show doesn't only offer a window into the lives of the rich and shameless, says Max Rashbrooke. It's also a perfect distillation of how the country's wealth is increasingly being concentrated at the top.
Discussion around inequality tends to have been dominated by what people earned. Now the debate is turning to the question of wealth, writes Max Rashbrooke.
