What the think tanks think
Do you want to know what the think tanks are thinking? If you, like us, are interested in public policy research and want to keep up with the most recent thinking, the latest reports from thinks tanks, research organisations and foundations are where you want to go. However, as there are many organisations producing excellent public policy research it is difficult to keep up with all of it, that is why we have started this regular summary. ‘What the think tanks think’ is the definitive place to keep up to date with the latest research.
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Latest research
A lot of research has been published in recent weeks, on a large range of topics. Upcoming elections have prompted a couple of reports, with CentreForum publishing an appraisal of Scottish independence and Civitas looking for the UK’s insider advantage in trade with the EU. Policy Exchange published a high profile report, ‘A portrait of modern Britain’, picking up a lot of media coverage for its mapping of Britain’s BME communities. The NHS and care in this country has also been a popular topic recently, attracting reports from Nesta, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ResPublica and the IPPR. Here is the full list of recent reports:
Centre for European Reform - The consequences of Brexit for the City of London
Centre for London - The London Recipe: How Systems and Empathy Make The City
CentreForum - Scottish independence: an economic and political appraisal
CentreForum - UK new build nuclear power
CentreForum - Higher education as a tool of social mobility
CEPS - The Role of Market Mechanisms in a Post-2020 Climate Change Agreement
CEPS - Exports and Capacity Constraints: A smooth transition regression model for six euro-area countries
Chatham House - Elite Perceptions of the United States in Europe and Asia
Demos - Misogyny on Twitter
IFS - Tax without design: recent developments in UK tax policy
IFS - Consume now or later? Time inconsistency, collective choice and revealed preference
Institute for Public Policy Research - Purchasing power - Making consumer markets work for everyone
Institute for Public Policy Research - Fair shares - Shifting the balance of power in the workplace to boost productivity and pay
Institute for Public Policy Research - The long road to ruin - Why the UK needs to reform motoring taxes
Institute for Public Policy Research - Building economic resilience? An analysis of local enterprise partnerships’ plans
Institute for Public Policy Research - Think ahead - Meeting the workforce challenges in mental health social work
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - The Liveable lives study: Understanding everyday help and support
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Balancing caring and earning for British Caribbean, Pakistani and Somali people
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Closing the attainment gap in Scottish education
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Smaller housing associations’ capacity to develop new homes
Nesta - Who Cares?
New Local Government Network - Break on through - Overcoming barriers to integration
Nuffield Foundation - Changing Lifestyles, Keeping Children Safe: an evaluation of the first Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in care proceedings
Policy Exchange - A Portrait of Modern Britain
Resolution Foundation - Just the job – or a working compromise? The changing nature of self-employment in the UK
ResPublica - Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service
ResPublica - Community Energy: Unlocking Finance and Investment – The Way Ahead
Smith Institute - Making local economies matter: a review if policy lessons from the Regional Development Agencies and Local Enterprise Partnerships
Oliver Hicks-Pattison, Researcher, Tooley Street Research
May 20th 2014