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Our publications showcase the IfG’s sector-leading research, giving readers an impartial and evidence-based analysis of what makes good government.

Our publications showcase the IfG’s sector-leading research, giving readers an impartial and evidence-based analysis of what makes good government – and what could be improved.  

Insight papers offer a concise run-down of key issues, including our snap analysis of current events such as changes of government or emerging external challenges.

Analysis papers and longer reports dig deeper, drawing on long-running research projects, data analysis and interviews with experts and other key figures to answer the big questions facing government today, such as how to reform the civil service, the role of the tax system or the use of evidence in policy making.  

Our three data-driven reports – Whitehall Monitor, Parliamentary Monitor and Performance Tracker – provide an unrivalled stocktake of the civil service, parliament and public services respectively.

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01 SEP 2020 Report

Decision making in a crisis

This report examines decisions made in three areas: economic support, Covid-19 testing and the lockdown.

07 AUG 2020 Report

Trade and regulation after Brexit

The government will not be able to conclude a large number of trade agreements at speed and maintain its much-prized regulatory autonomy after Brexit.

23 JUL 2020 Report

Missing Numbers in Children’s Services

What data is available on children’s centres and youth services, and how government might overcome the barriers they face improving this data.

26 JUN 2020 Report

Becoming a Lords minister

The way that Lords ministers approach the role, and the support they are given to undertake it, can be very different from their Commons counterparts.

26 JUN 2020 Report

Managing consultants

Advice from current and former consultants and civil servants for officials on managing consultants in government.