Reporting for duty, by Tony Travers (PF 5/1/07)

- Government fondness for evidence based policy -> strategic planning, Design lens. Possibly way of avoiding making decisions.

-  Culture affecting strategy. New Labour’s consumerist culture leads to certain strategies. Prospector culture vs. traditional defender culture.

Work in progress, by Mark Conrad (PF 17/8/07)

Discussion of new green paper on getting the long term unemployed into work. Government’s use of reports like this is an indication of the use of strategic planning systems – there is a heavy reliance on data and statistics to support conclusions. Equally, the article shows a lot of stakeholders with concerns: inside the government, charities, thinktanks, civil servants and trade unions