Political process
Research Topic
Language: English
This is a research topic created to provide authors with a place to attach new problem publications.
Research problems linked to this topic
- How should government maintain trust and accountability in using AI and machine learning? What is the public appetite for government making use of these in decision making?
- How can we ensure effective work across government and the wider public sector to maximise efficiency and realise opportunities to develop policies that improve outcomes for citizens? What are the most effective ways - financial or non-financial of encouraging public bodies to work across boundaries, and for the centre of government to coordinate policy making? 5. How can the Civil Service build career paths that encourage a breadth of experience and depth of expertise?
- How can we improve the delivery and performance of government transformation and service delivery projects?
- How do we apply Cost Benefit Analysis to improve capability development across organisations with more and less specialised cadres of staff?
- How does the governance and assurance of major projects relate to effective decision making?
- How can we ensure a streamlined registration process that is accessible to all, maximises digital opportunities, and is resilient to future change?
- What is the range of productivity performance across public services in the UK? What are the characteristics of highest productivity public services and what needs to happen to raise productivity in lower productivity services? How could existing measures of public sector productivity be further improved? Which countries have the highest productivity in their delivery of public services? What lessons can the UK learn from international best practice?
- How can good data help to ensure successful delivery of major projects?
- What are the direct impacts of the harms of online mis/disinformation and what types of online mis/disinformation are most harmful? How do these impact individuals, wider society and the democratic process (whether physical, psychological health, civil unrest, UK security, elections)?
- How do we define value, understand and measure success and identify the critical success factors of major projects?
- What are likely to be the future delivery models for public services and how can government and society best prepare to capitalise on the opportunities presented by these?
- What capabilities are needed to deliver successful major projects and how are they built and distributed?
- What evidence is there, from the UK and internationally, about how best to manage organisational change in the public sector?
- How do we develop public services that allow users to collectively create their own solutions? What role can social movement and network theories play in helping to improve public sector services and drive large scale system change?
- What are the different models for encouraging wider participation, citizen empowerment, and personal and community resilience? What are the relative merits of these models?
- How can policy makers be supported to collaborate more effectively with external experts and academia?