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Dan Honig

@danhonig.bsky.social
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Trying to find the human in the everyday, and write about it. Mission Driven Bureaucrats are all around us - and can be on you shelf (DanHonig.info/missiondrivenbureaucrats). Work London & DC.

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IRPP @irpp.org · 07/07/2025
🚨Join us July 15 for a webinar w/@jackpannell.bsky.social, @danhonig.bsky.social & @jenditchburn.bsky.social! They'll discuss what a “mission-driven” approach to governing means, how it has played out in the U.K., & what lessons it might offer for Canada’s federal public service! 👉 irpp.org?p=20851
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Have you been wondering whether (or when) talk about missions is just rhetoric and when it is (or is leading to) real change? We wrote something we think can help. Come and let us know what you think on Thursday, details/registration link below!
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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New thing klaxon! How do you know if your organisation is mission-driven? Today we’re releasing a mission maturity framework I’ve co-authored with @danhonig.bsky.social and Vinuri Dissanaya at Georgetown Better Government Lab in collaboration with Nesta. Link: www.nesta.org.uk/report/on-mi.... 1/n
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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📆 Join us online on 17 July, for a live discussion with the framework’s authors @danhonig.bsky.social and @jamestplunkett.bsky.social to discover how to successfully implement mission-driven approaches. 🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/4k2IhUK
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Yamini Aiyar & I argue in @foreignpolicy.com that efficiency is a good thing, but not the only good thing. The state is not just about 'delivery', but about judgment, engagement, equity, process. Thoughts very welcome; ungated here: bit.ly/EfficiencyIs...
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Efficiency Isn’t Everything
Successful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws.
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
If you're in A2 this Monday, do come!
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The social contract is fraying. Our states oft can't "deliver" - & when they do that doesn't seem to satisfy, with democratic backsliding and populism the result. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, @rahulksharma.bsky.social, & I think the answer is in part Relational State Capacity. 👇https://t.co/W6W6hKfwcp
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https://snfagora.jhu.edu/publication/relational-state-capacity-conceiving-of-relationships-as-a-core-component-of-societys-ability-to-achieve-collective-ends/
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Let's mourn the death of USAID. Was it always the perfect aid agency? No, it wasn't. But it was full of dedicated humans who earnest sought to make the world better. They also, very often, succeeded. This decision will kill people who "don't matter" to score political points. Speramus meliora
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Joint with Sarah Thompson, a new piece on Mission Driven Bureaucrats & agency performance now live here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Even - or especially - when agency missions are under threat, Mission Driven Bureaucrats are critical to success. They are also a reason for hope.
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Mission driven bureaucrats & agency performance in difficult times
Published in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
What's really lovely about this IMO is that it is 1) True; 2) Seems a kind of 'visual proof' of the power of agency, and of making positive change in your life; 3) Makes clear the importance of initial position to the range of options one has. All things to remember; happy 2025 to one and all.
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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Other recent episodes of ePODstemology: @danhonig.bsky.social from UCL and Georgetown explains how we can get better public services: www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
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Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services - ePODstemology
In the UK, up to 80% of a social worker’s time can be spent filling out forms rather than helping the desperate people in their care. This is an example of what Dan Honig calls ‘management for complia...
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Proposed campaign slogan: MO Malley, Fewer Problems
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Tom King @policytom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Reminded me of this really insightful article from @danhonig.bsky.social on how we need to let public servants get on with doing their job samf.substack.com/p/how-labour...
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How Labour can fix the public sector
Figuring out how to let the workforce do their job
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Thanks so much, Helen!
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Dan Honig @danhonig.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
A "razor-thin" election outcome in Liberia will make very little international news today - and it shouldn't. Kudos to President Weah on stepping down so honorably. As Weah put it, "Liberia has won". That's 100% right, and he deserves a great deal of the credit. 1/
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 03/10/2023
Many of us have the intuition that people in our countries are morally more important than others. I made a shiny app that lets you measure global poverty rates while allowing for this kind of nationalistic discounting. ryanbriggs.shinyapps.io/PovcalNet_we...
The interface of a R shiny application. The title is "Global poverty trends with national discounting."
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