This paper sets out the challenge of the new global democratic emergency and how this is threatening the political landscape in Britain. It makes the case to upgrade democracy by rebuilding the relationship between state and citizen, in order to win back trust and secure a better democratic future.

For government to break out of the loop of demand for public services and innovate, it needs to find a way to prioritise prevention over day-to-day expenditure. This paper looks at how to shift the culture of public organisations to think ‘prevention first’ and target spending at activities which promise value for money and improve...

Trust in Britain’s system of government is at a record low. This report sets out to better understand the current state of political trust to diagnose what is going wrong, and to develop a playbook to rebuild political trust. It identifies key drivers of low trust from which it builds a series of strategies and...

This briefing paper is part of Demos’ work on reforming public services and moving towards a more preventative state. The first paper in the series focused on the vision of a preventative state and suggested the idea of Treasury reform to support it. This briefing document is designed to flesh out more about how that...

In this essay, the authors argue that we need a state which is more expansive in how it sees the challenge of reforming public services.