Paul ’t Hart is a Professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands. His most recent books are Great Policy Successes (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Successful Public Policy: Lessons From Australia and New Zealand (ANU Press, 2019), both available in online open access.
Books & arts
Welcome to the Titanic
Paul ’t Hart
8 December 2021
Andrew Leigh compellingly describes the “black swan” events we could be facing, but are his proposals equal to the threat?
Books & arts
Yes they can (and should)
Paul ’t Hart
16 August 2021
A pragmatist’s vision for better government
Books & arts
Voluntary servitude
Paul ’t Hart
26 April 2020
Books | Despotism, reinvented, is here to stay (and could be coming our way)
Books & arts
Killing for the cause
Paul ’t Hart
30 June 2019
Books | A social psychologist explores how radicalisation happens
Books & arts
The return of the -isms
Paul ’t Hart
3 April 2019
How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers
Books & arts
Towards a second democratic revolution
Paul ’t Hart
11 February 2019
Books | What France’s yellow jacket protestors may be trying to tell us
International
Cautionary tales from the birthplace of bureaucracy
Paul ’t Hart
12 March 2018
Even in modern Germany, government maladministration can have tragic effects
Books & arts
Groups are dumber than you think (but we can make them smarter)
Paul ’t Hart
14 May 2015
Books | Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie want us to think differently about making decisions in groups. But there’s a small herd of elephants in the room, writes…
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