Report: The How We Need Now: A capacity agenda for 2025 and beyond

Published by the Niskanen Center, and authored by PD Founder, Andrew Greenway, and Jennifer Pahlka in December 2024, The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025, analyses state capacity and public service reform in the US, UK and beyond.

"Whatever your thoughts on who’s in power - and we all have thoughts - if the machinery of government can’t translate democratic intent into changes that people can feel and see, we all lose. State capacity may not be the talk of the bars and malls of America, but we think the consequences of it are profoundly shaping the lives and futures of people in those places.

"The report sets out what we perceive the challenges to be, why they matter, and most importantly - how we think they could start to be unravelled. We take heart from some of the recent notes of optimism in the UK, and explore how the US could be at a unique moment of opportunity to renew its public realm."