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Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)

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The Failure to Scale

Liszt has first hand experience with the failure to scale. He ran a series of interventions in Chicago during George W Bush's presidency. One was called the parent academies, which failed 'miserably' Liszt says that if you want your programme to work at higher levels, you have to figure out how to get the right people into the programme....

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