The IDHUS Institute’s policy papers are focused documents that define specific social or organizational problems in public governance and institutional cognition. We evaluate evidence and make an argument for a practical course of action or solution that we see fit for the problem. It is written to convey to decision-makers, such as government officials or organizational leaders, different options and solutions that could lead to specific policy, internal changes, better practices and administration changes.
Designing Institutional Attention
Public institutions operate under an unavoidable condition of scarcity: they face more signals, demands, problems and potential priorities than they can examine with equal depth or sustain simultaneously. This is not, in itself, an institutional failure. Attention is necessarily selective. The more consequential question is how that selectivity is organised, because institutional structures do not...
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Building Institutional Memory for Reuse
Public institutions can retain extensive knowledge while remaining unable to use it when later decisions, operations or institutional processes require it. Reports, evaluations, decisions, lessons and records may survive in repositories or organisational systems without becoming reliable inputs to future action. Retention is therefore a necessary condition of institutional memory, but it is not institutional...
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