Designers’ Evolving Roles in Government
How can the public sector create a culture that's friendly to human-centered design?
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Government - Book Excerpts
Innovative public sector policies and programs
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Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
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Squandering America’s Future
Squandering America’s Future offers an irreverent critique of the way we rear and educate children today, with profiles of change makers—ingenious gymnasts who keep their balance on the three-legged stool of research, practice, and policy.
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Cheap and Clean
Cheap and Clean explores how, more than anything else, beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with certain fuels drive opinions about energy and climate change policy.
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Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America offers a sweeping look at political and economic divisions in American politics over the past century.
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The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) About Race at Work
The Color Bind explores how color blindness and "color cognizance" can influence professional interactions.
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The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
The Public School Advantage draws on empirical data to argue against the popular perception that public schools are inferior to private schools.
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Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy
Creating Climate Wealth discusses business model innovations that will help battle the effects of climate change.
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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a new look at American poverty as well as recommendations for combating it.
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Enough Is Enough
To promote conservation, mitigate economic inequality, and more, Enough Is Enough envisions a world in which we pursue merely "enough" rather than unending economic growth.