Drawing on pre- and post-election briefings I prepared for a small number of clients, this E-Tangata piece sets out my view of the 2023 coalition agreements and the implementation risks the government would need to manage actively. I argue that the electorate voted for minor change, not reform, and certainly not a culture war. I…

Provoking debate and learning lessons: What the Performance Improvement Framework challenged us to think about (2012) In this 2012 article, Kevin Guerin and I ask what the first 21 Performance Improvement Framework reviews, published in the framework’s first three years, suggest about public management in Aotearoa when they are read together as a single data…