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Is blending hard and soft power the UK’s secret ‘superpower’?
Catriona Laing describes how we can learn from the thinking and actions of Joseph Nye and Jeremy Heywood In an age when hard power seems to be in the ascendancy, soft power might feel like the diplomatic equivalent of handwritten letters – elegant but outdated. And...
The art of horizontal government
True digital transformation requires reimagining the citizen experience from scratch, argues Victor Dominello, CEO of the Future Government Institute and a former New South Wales Minister for Customer Service. Editor’s Note: Across the world, governments are...
How the UK Civil Service can learn from other countries
Gus O’Donnell and Kathy Hall review what the latest Blavatnik Index has to show us about comparative strengths and weaknesses Sir Chris Wormald, the new Cabinet Secretary, told Parliament earlier this year that great policymakers are “self-confident enough to...
Has the OBR experiment been worthwhile?
Robert Chote, its first full time Chairman, explains how the UK’s Budget watchdog came about, and examines some of the critiques it has faced When applications were invited to chair the Office for Budget Responsibility in the summer of 2010, I consulted two...