#Brexit, the populist surge and the crisis of complexity
Is policymaking becoming too complex? What does this mean for evidence-informed policy making?
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Making research evidence count: insights from Finland’s Policy Analysis Unit
After more than a decade in Asia working to build governments’ use of evidence, I recently moved back to Finland. Here I’ve found commitment to evidence and innovation like nowhere else. Kokeileva Suomi or Experimental Finland is a great example of the nation’s ‘readiness to innovate’. Set up by Prime Minister Juha Sipilä in 2015, it tests policies
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Policy content change is one of the types of policy change, but not the only one
There is an interesting exchange mid-way through David Letterman’s interview to President Barack Obama on Netflix. Letterman asks President Obama about his reflection on policymaking and the role and power that the president actually has. Obama answer is quite illuminating in terms of the nature of policy change. Yes, he says, a lot of his time
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Tips for public speaking
TED Talks by Chris Anderson is not only about providing useful suggestions for giving public speeches. it is also about the bigger theme of knowledge sharing. In all its forms. In all it areas. In all its aspects. Photo: Dian Lofton / TED I have no doubt (and Chris Anderson confirms that in the book)
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LSE podcasts I liked
Being back in Finland and having to fix things in the house has given me an opportunity to listen again to the always very interesting LSE Public Lecture podcasts. The effects and implications of Brexit and the election of President Trump dominate the discussion at the moment but they are not the only themes. Here
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The three components that can help system thinking in development programmes
As I reread Duncan Green’s blog about an interesting conversation we had over a coffee few weeks ago in Brixton (How might a systems approach change the way aid supports the knowledge sector in Indonesia?), it occurred to me that I could add something. ‘Systems’, he writes, ‘evolve through the endless churn of variation, selection
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Estimating the return on investment of policy research and engagement
by Tanty Nurhayati Djafar , Ni Wayan Suriastini , and Arnaldo Pellini Is it possible to calculate the return of investment on a research policy project? Well, the Indonesian think tank SurveyMETER and the Knowledge Sector Initiative have given it a go for a policy research project on services and infrastructure for the aging population in the Indonesian municipality of Balikpapan. Here is what
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First impressions from entering the best school system in the world
In June this year my family and I moved back to Europe after spending more than 10 years in Southeast Asia. We decided for various reason to move back to Finland. We have family and relatives here and one of the factors that brought us back was to be closer to the family. A second
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