Publications
Featured Publications
Who Chose the Sheriff?
Party People: How should the Political Parties select their Parliamentary Candidates?
Transitions: Lessons Learned
See-through Whitehall
The dismal science?
Collaborative working
Northern Exposure
What works in candidate selection?
Transparency in Arm's Length Bodies
Making the Most of Mayors
Mayors and the Localism Bill
Unfinished Business:
Open Public Services
Big Shot or Long Shot?
The Challenge of Being a Minister
One Year On
Making Policy Better
System Error
Read before burning
MINDSPACE
The Coalition: Voters, Parties and Institutions
Professor Hussein Kassim,
Rt Hon Charles Clarke,
Dr Catherine Haddon
15 February 2012
The formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democratic government marked a departure from the traditional practice of single-party government at Westminster.
The 'S' Factors
Lessons from IFG's policy success reunions
Jill Rutter,
Edward Marshall,
Sam Sims
03 January 2012
This report looks at what we can learn from policy successes. It focuses on six examples: privatisation, the introduction of the national minimum wage, Scottish devolution, the ban on smoking in public places, pensions reform and the Climate Change Act.
The New Persuaders II
A 2011 Global Ranking of Soft Power
Jonathan McClory
01 December 2011
The aim of this publication – as with last year’s New Persuaders report – is to refocus attention on understanding the resources that contribute to a nation’s soft power, and provide a snap-shot of those resources through a composite index.
Who Chose the Sheriff?
Finding quality candidates for the police and crime commissioner elections
Tom Gash,
Akash Paun
18 November 2011
Our report states that, in addressing the urgent question of Police and Crime Commissioner candidate selection, “government and the parties face a set of complex and unfamiliar challenges.”
Party People: How should the Political Parties select their Parliamentary Candidates?
How do – and how should – British political parties select their parliamentary candidates?
Transitions: Lessons Learned
Reflections on the 2010 UK general election - and looking forward to 2015
Peter Riddell,
Dr Catherine Haddon
10 November 2011
This report is intended to record what happened during the long run-up to the 2010 election, the unexpected dramas of the Coalition negotiations in ‘the five days in May’, and the aftermath as the new ministers settled in.
See-through Whitehall
Departmental Business Plans one year on
Justine Stephen,
Robin Martin,
David Atkinson
08 November 2011
One year after the Prime Minister launched the Departmental Business Plans with the claim that they heralded “a new system of democratic accountability”, the Institute for Government has published its view of the plans to date.
The dismal science?
Is economics influential enough in government decision making?
Vicky Pryce
17 October 2011
Economics is at the heart of the most pressing issues facing Government, and it is vital that good economic advice is available to ministers.
Collaborative working
How publicly funded services can take a whole systems approach
Emily Miles,
William Trott
06 October 2011
A bottom-up, grassroots view of what is needed for public sector organisations to work collaboratively, based on research carried out by Emily Miles in the USA, Canada and India.
Northern Exposure
Lessons from the first twelve years of devolved government in Scotland
Sir John Elvidge
23 September 2011
We are making less use than we could and should within the UK of the opportunities for transferable learning from the experience of devolution.
