Policy Design Centre
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We believe that public policy should be open, transparent, and accessible - and our mission is to make that happen through research and education.
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Rage bait seems like a perfectly cromulent word of the year for 2025.
The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.
Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.
n.pr
January 1, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Rage bait seems like a perfectly cromulent word of the year for 2025.
In all places, arguably.
Some textbook explanations of public policy suggest it is a cyclical, technocratic exercise of designing rules to effect desired outcomes. In practice, it's a maelstrom of decision based evidence making, politics, and change.
Some textbook explanations of public policy suggest it is a cyclical, technocratic exercise of designing rules to effect desired outcomes. In practice, it's a maelstrom of decision based evidence making, politics, and change.
Our theories of how the public "understands" a policy issue, at least in education spaces, are woefully inadequate
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In all places, arguably.
Some textbook explanations of public policy suggest it is a cyclical, technocratic exercise of designing rules to effect desired outcomes. In practice, it's a maelstrom of decision based evidence making, politics, and change.
Some textbook explanations of public policy suggest it is a cyclical, technocratic exercise of designing rules to effect desired outcomes. In practice, it's a maelstrom of decision based evidence making, politics, and change.
Considering unintended consequences is an underrated skill in public policy.
And when you see an example of poor planning in the wild (click through to Jo's quoted post), there's also a good argument to be made that it happened because politics overruled policy.
And when you see an example of poor planning in the wild (click through to Jo's quoted post), there's also a good argument to be made that it happened because politics overruled policy.
I tell students that one of the crudest mistakes made in public policy is to overlook the fact that people will react to changes in ways that you might not have taken into account. And in retrospect it can look oh so predictable which makes it even more embarrassing.
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Considering unintended consequences is an underrated skill in public policy.
And when you see an example of poor planning in the wild (click through to Jo's quoted post), there's also a good argument to be made that it happened because politics overruled policy.
And when you see an example of poor planning in the wild (click through to Jo's quoted post), there's also a good argument to be made that it happened because politics overruled policy.
Well, 12/31 seems like a great day to announce that we're planning some interesting work on making public policy more open, transparent, and accessible starting 1/1.
That's our vision, and our mission is to make it happen through research and education.
Looking forward to what's next!
That's our vision, and our mission is to make it happen through research and education.
Looking forward to what's next!
December 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Well, 12/31 seems like a great day to announce that we're planning some interesting work on making public policy more open, transparent, and accessible starting 1/1.
That's our vision, and our mission is to make it happen through research and education.
Looking forward to what's next!
That's our vision, and our mission is to make it happen through research and education.
Looking forward to what's next!