Delivering policy reform: making it happen, making it stick

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Cascading and often unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy making operates. Sometimes these challenges are born of crises, sometimes of more systematic forces such as climate change or environmental threats. Some are the result of social and demographic trends, such as ageing or social inclusion. Sometimes they emerge by stealth, travelling under the radar until they suddenly manifest themselves. Such transformative changes are occurring across many fields simultaneously: technological, economic, international, defence and security related, environmental, social and demographic. They force governments to rethink what they do, when they do it and how they do it. Governments need constantly to re-examine and readjust their policy responses to align to the new challenges. But often the opportunity to respond in policy terms happens in very compressed time frames

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