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Concept X · Reform

Sustainable Governance

Governance that outlasts its officials: continuity of good policy across terms.

Concept X in the assembly, marked in red.
Fig. 1Concept X in the assembly, marked in red.

Sustainable governance asks how good policy survives a change of administration, and how public decisions account for the generations who will live with them. It joins institutional continuity with responsibility for the future.

In brief

  • Policies that survive a change of officials.
  • Long-term plans with public ownership.
  • Decisions that weigh the next generation.

For discussion

Which good programme in your area ended when the official who started it left?