Ruth Dixon
@ruth-dixon.bsky.social
Retired from the University of Oxford. Co-author with Christopher Hood of 'A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?' OUP 2015.
I hadn't thought about this before. Could you explain what is the function of a SI that brings codes of practice into force? e.g. www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/85...
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July 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I hadn't thought about this before. Could you explain what is the function of a SI that brings codes of practice into force? e.g. www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/85...
Huge number of inaccuracies in this article. Did AI write it?
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Huge number of inaccuracies in this article. Did AI write it?
Thank you, Calum, for your work and principled stance on this bill.
June 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank you, Calum, for your work and principled stance on this bill.
Reposted by Ruth Dixon
I’ve written for our blog this week about why I think these are the biggest and most pernicious policy memes of 2025, check it out!
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One year on from the original policy memes blog @jo3hill.bsky.social has produced an updated list, including...
👉Pilotitis
👉Hubs theory of everything
👉Risk-aversion
👉Everythingism
Read below!👇
reform.uk/comment/poli...
👉Pilotitis
👉Hubs theory of everything
👉Risk-aversion
👉Everythingism
Read below!👇
reform.uk/comment/poli...
Policy memes 2.0 - predictions for 2025 - REFORM
A year ago, I wrote a blog for Reform on policy memes. I still think about that piece a lot, because the longer you work in Westminster, the more policy memes you see. And a few co-conspirators have b...
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January 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’ve written for our blog this week about why I think these are the biggest and most pernicious policy memes of 2025, check it out!
bsky.app/profile/refo...
bsky.app/profile/refo...
Reposted by Ruth Dixon
APSA and Cambridge University Press have just made Christopher Hood's John Gaus Award lecture "Public Administration and the War Against COVID" free to access until the end of 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID - Volume 55 Issue 3
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January 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
APSA and Cambridge University Press have just made Christopher Hood's John Gaus Award lecture "Public Administration and the War Against COVID" free to access until the end of 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...