Policy Network was an international centre-left think tank based in London. The President of Policy Network was former UK First Secretary of State and EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson; Lord Liddle (former Special Adviser to President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso) was Chairperson.

Policy Network sought to promote strategic thinking on progressive solutions to the challenges of the 21st century and the future of social democracy. It organized debates and conducted research on policy and political challenges. In May 2021, Policy Network merged with Progress to form Progressive Britain.

Funding

Policy Network has been given a C grade for funding transparency by Who Funds You?

Policy Network discloses the identities of its funders on its website, but does not reveal how much money each funder provided. According to its website: "In 2016, Policy Network received core funding from Lord Sainsbury of Turville. In addition, support for specific projects was received from the Barrow Cadbury Fund; European Commission; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES); RSPB; Nissan Europe; Aberdeen Asset Management; Bertelsmann Stiftung and Foundation of European Progressive Studies (Feps). Event sponsorship was also received from E!Sharp; Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research; TechUK; Deutsche Börse and Gatsby."

Publications

• Anthony Giddens, "Politics of Climate Change", 2009

• David Held and Angus Fane Hervey, "Democracy, climate change and global governance", 2009

• David Hetherington and Tim Soutphommasane, "What's the Story? Nation-building Narratives in Australian Climate Politics", 2010

• Priya Shankar, "Old Player, New Role? India in a Multi-polar World", 2010

• Lauren M. McLaren, "Cause for Concern? The Impact of Immigration on Political Trust", 2010

• Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice, "Southern Discomfort Again", 2010

• Alfredo Cabral and Priya Shankar, "Brazil Rising: The Prospects of an Emerging Power", 2011

• Graeme Cooke, Adam Lent, Anthony Painter, and Hopi Sen, "In the Black Labour: Why Fiscal Conservatism and Social Justice Go Hand-in-hand", 2011

• Colin Crouch, "Is There a Liberalism Beyond Social Democracy?", 2011

• Jacob Hacker, "The Institutional Foundations of Middle Class Democracy", 2011

• Rebalancing What?, Mariana Mazzucato, 2012

• On Growth, Larry Summers, 2012

• Stephen Hockman, "Legislating for Responsible Capitalism", 2012

• "Immigration, Work and Welfare", Elena Jurado, Grete Brochmann, and Jon Erik Dølvik (eds), 2013

• Damian Chalmers, "Democratic Self-Government in Europe", 2013

• Roger Liddle, "The Europe Dilemma: Britain and the Drama of EU Integration", 2014

• Sofia Vasilopoulou, Mixed feelings: Britain's conflicted attitudes to the EU before the referendum, 2015

• Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice, Can Labour Win?, 2015

• Britain's EU renegotiation: the view from our partners, 2015

• Claudia Chwalisz and Patrick Diamond, The Predistribution Agenda, 2015

• Pat McFadden and Andy Tarrant, What would 'out' look like?, 2015

• Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, The Risk of Brexit, 2015

• Andrew Duff, Britain's special status in Europe, 2016

• Greg McClymont and Andy Tarrant, Towards a New Pensions Settlement, 2016

• Daniel Sage, Young people at risk: Challenges and policy options for the UK, 2016

• Jake Sumner, Building for Generation Rent, 2016

• Frans Timmermans, Community: Discovering Ties That Bind, 2016

• Helen Thompson and Leila Simona Talani, The impact of Brexit on the City and the British economic model, 2016

• Jonathan Ashworth, Sunny Ways: Learning from Success and Failure in Canada, 2016

• Matthias Machnig and Oliver Schmolke, Distributing the Future, 2016

• Andrew Duff, After Brexit, 2016

• Lucia Quaglia and Waltraud Schelkle, EU economic governance after Brexit, 2016

• Florian Ranft, Martin Adler, Patrick Diamond, Eugenia Guerrero, and Matthew Laza, Freeing the Road, 2016

See also

• Post-democracy

• Precariat

• Predistribution

• Third Way

References