Book launch. Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Diplomatic Relations between Germany, Austria, and Israel.

Book launches of Collective Memory in International Relations by Dr Kathrin Bachleitner, University of Oxford, and Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-1969 by Dr Lorena De Vita

Moderated by Prof. Todd Hall Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Prof. Stephen Blyth.

Bad bets, bad apples, or bad policy? Should ordeals be a policy tool of the Twenty-first Century?

Professor Carolyn Heinrich gives the George Eastman Lecture, introduced by Professor Ngaire Woods.

“Ordeals” are a tool of public policy that have been used in public programmes to screen out potential programme beneficiaries who are considered “bad bets”—those who benefit too little to warrant the public expenditures—and “bad apples,” those who are viewed as undeserving for reasons of irresponsible, immoral, or illegal behaviour.
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