Making policy in opposition

Lessons for effective government
Date: 
25 September 2012
Authors: 
Dr Catherine Haddon

The Institute for Government has looked in the past at how opposition parties prepare themselves and their people for potential government and it has looked at ways to improve policy making in government. It has also completed a number of case studies looking at how individual policies were developed in opposition and taken into government. This paper is intended to draw out some of the lessons that policy makers in opposition might want to consider.