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Working to make government more effective

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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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24 JUN 2013 Report

Meeting the Challenge?

Following our discussion paper on Civil Service capabilities, this report compares previous reforms to the proposals in the new Capabilities Plan publ

24 JUN 2013 Report

Civil Service Capabilities

Improving the capability of the Civil Service is a huge challenge. This discussion paper examines some of the issues and challenges around making the

05 JUN 2013 Report

The 2015/16 Spending Round

Fiscal consolidation is taking longer than planned. The Chancellor announced in the 2010 Emergency Budget that the budget deficit would be balanced wi

22 APR 2013 Report

Financial leadership for government

This paper analyses the evolving functions of finance. While control of money and budgets remains a core role, finance teams are increasingly taking o

26 MAR 2013 Report

Supporting Ministers to Lead

This paper addresses the question of whether ministerial private offices provide the right kind of support to enable departmental secretaries of state

24 JAN 2013 Report

When to contract

This working paper identifies six questions that those introducing, adapting or overseeing contractual mechanisms in public services should ask to gai