‘Why doesn’t the government do something about this?’ is a complaint often heard in legislatures, TV debates, opinion pieces, letters to the editor and cyberspace. …

It is time to move away from the ‘government are from Venus, researchers are from Mars’ narrative. Instead we should focus on the challenges both parties…

Policy entrepreneurs transform policy ideas into policy innovations, disrupting the status quo of existing settings. What makes for effective policy entrepreneurship and what attributes, skills…

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy issues and generate new policy solutions. But what…

The last decade has seen ongoing issues of gender inequity as well as arguably the golden age of female comics. From Tina Fey and Amy…

Like policy failures, policy successes are in the eye of the beholder. They are not mere facts but stories. To claim a public policy, program…

Policy coordination is an age old challenge for government. As the problems confronting governments have become more complex, effective coordination is even more critical.  But…

There is a pervasive sense that governments are not doing as well as they should to solve our biggest policy problems. This failure to meet…

A post on the London School of Economics Impact Blog outlined why it is unrealistic for academic research to drive policy change. Yet social and…

Design thinking has become a popular approach for governments seeking to address complex governance challenges. It offers novel techniques and speaks to broader questions of…

In conventional economics, the concept of value creation by the public sector is largely absent. Value is created in business with the state playing a…

The idea of evidence based public policy has been fundamental to policy making since it first came to prominence over 20 years ago. Events around…

The increasing complexity of contemporary policy problems coupled with rising public expectations present unprecedented challenges to the capacity of governments to make and implement effective…

Policy makers are increasingly drawing on knowledge outside the public service to deal with the complexity of public policy. Academic research is one source of…