I am a British citizen who was fortunate to be able to spend a year at Princeton, at what is now the SPIA. Detached from the UK Senior Civil Service for a year, I learned a lot from studying American ways of delivering public services. It is hard to believe that one individual could create so much destruction in policy delivery, without checks and balances. We did have Henry VIII, of course, but parliamentary democracy has turned out to be a preferable approach.
I am a British citizen who was fortunate to be able to spend a year at Princeton, at what is now the SPIA. Detached from the UK Senior Civil Service for a year, I learned a lot from studying American ways of delivering public services. It is hard to believe that one individual could create so much destruction in policy delivery, without checks and balances. We did have Henry VIII, of course, but parliamentary democracy has turned out to be a preferable approach.