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Ngaire Woods

Ngaire Woods

Writing for PS since 2013
61 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

Ngaire Woods is Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

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  1. A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
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    A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope

    Dec 30, 2024 Ngaire Woods highlights the need for governments to be more ambitious in addressing the causes of citizens’ frustrations.

  2. Working-Class Antiheroes
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Oct 21, 2024 Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.

  3. Do Political Leaders Deserve a Break?
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    Do Political Leaders Deserve a Break?

    Aug 28, 2024 Ngaire Woods cites research showing that fatigue erodes judgment, undermining officials' ability to make sound decisions.

  4. Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right
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    Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right

    Jun 28, 2024 Ngaire Woods urges policymakers to reconsider both their message and their medium to reach disaffected younger voters.

  5. The IMF Chose the Right Leader the Wrong Way
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    The IMF Chose the Right Leader the Wrong Way

    Apr 25, 2024 Ngaire Woods thinks the Fund’s process for selecting its managing director is woefully out of step with today’s world.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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