title: Best practice model for developing legislation

authors: Morgan, Gay

subjects: Designing Legislation

abstract: The history of attempted improvements to legislative design and the design systems of a number of OECD members, including New Zealand’s, inform the best practice model. Regulatory and legislative failures are analysed to discover common denominators, with solutions suggested. Likewise, common denominators in successful international and other national transport safety programmes are included. The model integrates systems and behavioural analysis into regulatory design, regulation monitoring and adjustment mechanisms. The design process is situated within the broader legal system and incorporates drafting. A red, yellow and green light system avoids failure factors. A regulatory tool library includes a suite of regulatory interventions with advice on their use, including differentiating between the behavioural drivers of humans and artificial entities. It recommends the EU’s and Australia’s centralisation of expertise and cross fertilisation of regulatory experience together with early inclusion of civil society and other stakeholders for buy-in and optimal use of systems analysis in developing innovative, effective and resilient regulation. Finally, New Zealand’s regulatory management system overregulates regulators, impeding flexible regulation for changing conditions and value per tax dollar.

text: Best practice model for developing legislation The history of attempted improvements to legislative design and the design systems of a number of OECD members, including New Zealand’s, inform the best practice model. Regulatory and legislative failures are analysed to discover common denominators, with solutions suggested. Likewise, common denominators in successful international and other national transport safety programmes are included. The model integrates systems and behavioural analysis into regulatory design, regulation monitoring and adjustment mechanisms. The design process is situated within the broader legal system and incorporates drafting. A red, yellow and green light system avoids failure factors. A regulatory tool library includes a suite of regulatory interventions with advice on their use, including differentiating between the behavioural drivers of humans and artificial entities. It recommends the EU’s and Australia’s centralisation of expertise and cross fertilisation of regulatory experience together with early inclusion of civil society and other stakeholders for buy-in and optimal use of systems analysis in developing innovative, effective and resilient regulation. Finally, New Zealand’s regulatory management system overregulates regulators, impeding flexible regulation for changing conditions and value per tax dollar.

year: 2020-05

title: Housing supply, land costs and price adjustment

authors: Grimes, Arthur

subjects: house supply

abstract: We analyze relationships between housing supply elasticities, land costs and house price dynamics, contributing three main insights. First, higher housing supply elasticities help contain short-run price spikes following demand shocks. Second, land price dynamics influence this relationship; supply responses are lessened and house price spikes are exacerbated as land prices increase. Third, we estimate a system of regional equations modeling housing supply using a Tobin's-q specification (incorporating construction and land costs) and show that regional price dynamics are a function of the region's supply elasticity.

text: Housing supply, land costs and price adjustment We analyze relationships between housing supply elasticities, land costs and house price dynamics, contributing three main insights. First, higher housing supply elasticities help contain short-run price spikes following demand shocks. Second, land price dynamics influence this relationship; supply responses are lessened and house price spikes are exacerbated as land prices increase. Third, we estimate a system of regional equations modeling housing supply using a Tobin's-q specification (incorporating construction and land costs) and show that regional price dynamics are a function of the region's supply elasticity.

year: 2009

title: Students’ Social Interest and University Partnership with Local Indigenous People

authors: Theodorus, Edward

subjects: social interest

abstract: According to Alfred Adler, people will have a meaningful life if they contribute to the realisation of an ideal cooperating community. The psychological process of “contributing” is captured in the Adlerian concept of “social interest.” This study investigates students’ social interest in university partnership with local indigenous people. The partnership between the University of Waikato and local tribes of Tainui is a particular concern of this study, with Kīngitanga Day as the specific phenomenon. Mixed methods–descriptive statistics and thematic analysis–were employed to investigate students’ social interest. Data collection was done in three phases. From data analysis, I found eight primary themes of students’ social interest, namely knowledgeability, significance to self, identification, awareness of community context, gradation of sympathetic concern, willingness, action, and reflection. How the findings relate to the literature on social interest and university-community partnership is discussed. A new model of applied social interest is developed. This thesis ends with elaboration on limitations and recommendations for future research.

text: Students’ Social Interest and University Partnership with Local Indigenous People According to Alfred Adler, people will have a meaningful life if they contribute to the realisation of an ideal cooperating community. The psychological process of “contributing” is captured in the Adlerian concept of “social interest.” This study investigates students’ social interest in university partnership with local indigenous people. The partnership between the University of Waikato and local tribes of Tainui is a particular concern of this study, with Kīngitanga Day as the specific phenomenon. Mixed methods–descriptive statistics and thematic analysis–were employed to investigate students’ social interest. Data collection was done in three phases. From data analysis, I found eight primary themes of students’ social interest, namely knowledgeability, significance to self, identification, awareness of community context, gradation of sympathetic concern, willingness, action, and reflection. How the findings relate to the literature on social interest and university-community partnership is discussed. A new model of applied social interest is developed. This thesis ends with elaboration on limitations and recommendations for future research.

year: 2015