Publications
BSC faculty, fellows, and affiliates regularly publish research in a wide range of academic and policy venues.
These include books, book chapters, working papers, articles, cases, and reports. In addition, we have over 770 blog posts that you can read.
Featured Book
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action
Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock
Oxford University Press, 2017
This book provides evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, identifies capability traps that hold many governments back, and describes a process that can be used to escape these traps called PDIA (Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation).
Featured Publications
Facilitating learning and discovery-oriented industrial policy in Albania
2023 | working paper
Matt Andrews and Peter Harrington
A case narrative recounting a problem-driven learning and discovery-oriented approach undertaken to reinvigorate a struggling sector in Albania in 2014.
Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work
2022 | Working paper & podcast
Matt Andrews
Policies are often fraught with ‘unknowns’ that cannot be captured in passive planning processes.
Managing for Motivation as a Public Performance Improvement Strategy
2022 | Working paper & podcast
Dan Honig
A managerial approach focused on supporting employees to exercise judgement is better than conventional approaches.
Funda Wande through PDIA
2022 | INSIGHT NOTE & podcast
Salimah Samji and Mansi Kapoor
This South African case showcases a flexible and iterative learning approach to improving educational outcomes.
Implementing Policies with Impact
2020 | dubai policy review article
Matt Andrews and Salimah Samji
What capabilities are needed to go from successfully delivering policy products to fostering real policy impact?
How Do Governments Get Great?
2013 | Working paper
Matt Andrews
How can governments play a role in their country, region, and city to facilitate or lead new pathways for progress?