Research and analysis
We examine the questions that matter most for effective government.
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United we stand?
Our new report makes recommendations to enable the machinery of government to operate more effectively for coalitions.
Read Before Burning
Our recommendations for increasing the effectiveness and accountability of arm's-length bodies.
Q. When is an agency not an agency?
A: When like the Environment Agency, it's an executive non-departmental public body.
An evening with Tony Blair
On Monday evening, the Institute for Government and our guests were the first to hear Tony Blair’s reflections on his time in Number 10.
Firm foundations for a new politics?
A year on from the MPs' expenses crisis, the Institute for Government has published an assessment of the state of the House of Commons' administration
It took a scandal
Peter Riddell on Vanessa Nicholls' report on the running of the House of Commons.
Transformation in the Ministry of Justice
The Institute for Government's interim 2010 report on the Ministry of Justice's 'Transforming Justice' programme.
Making and breaking Whitehall departments
The Institute for Government (IfG) reports on Whitehall machinery of government changes.
MINDSPACE
Our new report explores how behaviour change theory can help meet current policy challenges.