Public Choice
Understanding why governments do what they do, from subsidies and stalled reforms to why good policies fail in practice
Why are government officials rarely rewarded or penalised based on their performance?
Why can a policy seem ‘good’ and still cause harm?
Why do good policies so often fail at the point of implementation?
Why do governments offer subsidies and freebies, especially around elections?
Why do politicians announce new schemes when similar ones already exist, instead of fixing the existing scheme?
Why do politicians focus on visible, short-term actions rather than long-term reforms?
Why do some government projects in India take far longer and cost far more than expected?
Why does the government keep running loss-making public enterprises?
Why is it so difficult to hold politicians accountable for what they actually deliver?