Roger Partridge: The Hidden Architecture of Government Failure

Bad incentives, not bad people, keep breaking New Zealand’s institutions – and only structural change will fix them.

New Zealand has never spent more on public services, administered by a workforce that has grown by a third in less than a decade. And yet hospital waiting lists stretch into years, students leave school unable to read, and infrastructure crumbles.

More money. More people. Worse results. If resources are not the problem, what is?

NZCPR Weekly: The High Cost of Failure

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we examine last week’s tragedy that left seven people injured and the perpetrator dead, and ask whether anything could have been done to prevent it; our NZCPR Guest Commentator Dr Clarke Jones, an Australian National University expert in de-radicalising Islamic extremists, shares his views on how the tragedy might have been avoided; and our poll asks whether you agree with the Prime Minister that everything was done to keep the public safe.

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