Inst. for Public Policy Res IPPR

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research

he <b>Institute for Public Policy Research</b> (IPPR)is a UK think tank with links to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Labour_Party" title="Labour Party">Labour Party</a>. It describes itself as "progressive".

<p>The IPPR is organizing an extensive series of fringe events at the 2004 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Labour_Party_conference" title="Labour Party conference">Labour Party conference</a>, in association with the television station <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ippr.org/brighton2004/">[1]</a>.</p>

<ul><li>Founding Director - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Cornford" title="James Cornford">James Cornford</a></li></ul>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#Board"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Board</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#Personnel_.282003.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel (2003)</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#IPPR_Trustees"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">IPPR Trustees</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#Staff"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Staff</span></a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#External_Link"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External Link</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#Resources_and_articles"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#Related_Sourcewatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related Sourcewatch articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#References"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li></ul>

</li></ul>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>

<p>Setting up IPPR was a conscious attempt by Labour leaders and Labour

sympathisers to promote their party’s modernisation beyond what was

discussed by party-internal policy-making bodies e.g. during the Policy

Review process. Thus, it was an institutionalised expression of the lack

of confidence in these bodies and their capability for reform and,

perhaps more significantly, an expression of dissatisfaction with

Labour’s more “traditional” motors of renewal – e.g. the Fabian Society.

The history of IPPR starts in 1986 – it was officially set up in 1988.

Businessman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clive_Hollick" title="Clive Hollick" class="mw-redirect">Clive Hollick</a>,

a Labour supporter, suggested to party leader Neil Kinnock that their

party needed a new think-tank to rival what IEA and ASI had done for the

Conservatives (Blackstone; Cornford; Hewitt & Miliband 1992).

Subsequently, Hollick and Kinnock’s economic advisor, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Eatwell" title="John Eatwell">John Eatwell</a>,

started assembling a board of trustees which appointed John Cornford,

an academic and former director of the liberal Outer Circle Policy Unit

think-tank, as IPPR’s first director. Patricia Hewitt – Neil Kinnock’s

press secretary and later a key person in the making of the Policy

Review and the 1992 election manifesto – became deputy director. Already

existing networks, often based on personal friendships, allowed IPPR to

gather sufficient funding to start work: especially the IPPR’s first

chair of trustees, Tessa Blackstone, who worked in Prime Minister Edward

Heath’s Central Policy Review Staff in the 1970s – a government unit

sometimes referred to as a think-tank (see Blackstone & Plowden

1988) – had good relationships to a number of Labour supporters from

academia and from the arts and business communities.

With an initial staff of only three and some rather vague funding

promises of £200.000 from individuals and trade unions, Cornford wanted

IPPR to act like a secretariat and intermediary for a flexible network

of academics, politicians and interest groups who would look at mid-and

long-term policy planning (Cornford 2007; 1996; 1990). But conflicts

arose because these intentions clashed with the different expectations

held by those who had been behind the instigation of IPPR and who were

close to the Labour leadership. They saw IPPR almost as an adjunct of

Labour’s PR machinery and wanted it to pursue more short-term and

media-effective work to ensure that Labour was publicly perceived as

well-prepared to take over government. The close connection that IPPR

maintained to the electoral goals of the Labour leadership was manifest

in Patricia Hewitt’s role at IPPR: after she had left her post in

Kinnock’s inner circle and had become the think-tank’s deputy director,

“she kept working for the party from the outside, cutting and shearing

the Policy Review”, as Labour insider Phillip Gould reports (1998, 99).

Therefore, during its early years IPPR de facto “provided some sort of

intellectual back-up for the Kinnock-team”, as IPPR’s Anna Coote said

(Coote 2007).

Above all the trade unions understood IPPR as a vehicle to get Labour

back into power. Therefore, a number of unions were neither happy about

IPPR’s slow start – it did not publish any work in its first year – nor

did they appreciate IPPR’s research agenda: topics like road-pricing

(Hewitt 1989) and the break-up of traditional family structures and the

consequent need for labour market reform (Coote, Harman & Hewitt

1990) were not issues that unions were interested respectively did not

want to discuss in this form. Consequently, trade unions’ financial

commitment to IPPR – mainly in the form of core funding – remained below

the initial promises. Hence, since very early on in IPPR’s history,

IPPR analysts have perceived trade unions as more difficult partners

than corporate sponsors and government because their limited financial

resources compel them to look at research co-sponsored by them in a very

interested and purpose-oriented manner. The end of the Cold War, the

demise of state socialism and Labour’s electoral failures strengthened

convictions within IPPR that the centre-left should urgently abandon

some of its long-held assumptions about the state, the market and about

the significance of ownership of the means of production. In 1992, IPPR

authors argued that a reform of “British capitalism” according to

centre-left values needed to take into account the inherent limitations

of the Social Democratic project and the changes that capitalism itself

had undergone: “every pattern of industrial development is now, […], a

‘third way’, combining a mixed economy with government regulation and a

welfare state”. Describing the left’s political heritage as “limiting”,

the authors proposed a new model of a society that should go “beyond a

static model of market/state relations and instead bind the two in close

interrelationships, weaving together social interest and market

dynamism” (Blackstone; Cornford; Hewitt & Miliband 1992, 3). In

1993, Patricia Hewitt and Philip Gould argued that Labour should follow

the example of William Clinton’s New Democrats in the US as an example

for the successful renewal of party organisation and ideology (Hewitt

& Gould 1993). IPPR has developed a relatively extensive internal

research capacity over the years. Today, it can be characterised as a

multi-issue interest-oriented or advocacy think-tank which carries out

applicable policy research striving for academic standards. It is also

aiming to become more of a “think-and-do-tank” with the aim of

cooperating closer with (local) government agencies by piloting and

evaluating policy programmes (IPPR 4 2008). In 2006, IPPR employed about

70 full-time staff and has set itself the objective of contributing to

“build a fairer, more democratic and environmentally sustainable world”

(IPPR 1). In 2004 it opened IPPR North in Newcastle to develop a less

London-centric policy view and to “deepen democratic engagement in the

North” (IPPR 3). With IPPR Trading a consultancy arm was set up to

increase income through work with corporate sponsors. The work done in

this context is usually based on cooperation with a single funder who

approaches IPPR with an idea for a project and commissions a study. IPPR

retains copyright of the outcome of this consultancy work but leaves

dissemination and usage to the commissioning organisation.

IPPR’s overall budget of circa three million pounds has remained

roughly the same in 2005 and 2004 (1998: £1 million). Funding sources

have changed since the think-tank’s inception. The corporate sector is

the most important – usually project-specific – financial source and

accounts for about a third of the overall donation income. Second are

individuals with 24% in 2004 and third come trusts and foundations with

22%. Other forms of income such as commissioned research by IPPR Trading

have added up to one million pounds in the past (IPPR 2005; IPPR 2004).

The Labour Party itself has not contributed to either IPPR’s core

funding or to specific projects and trade unions have lost all

significance as funders and merely partake in the think-tank’s

activities by having representatives on IPPR’s board of trustees. IPPR

has tried to distance itself from both Labour Party and Labour

government in order to secure its survival should the Labour

administration be voted out of power. Despite these efforts, this

think-tank continues to be perceived as firmly rooted in the

centre-left.</p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Board">Board</span></h2>

<p>Accessed October 2012: <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup>

<i>Directors</i></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_Pearce" title="Nick Pearce">Nick Pearce</a> - Director</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Cox" title="Ed Cox">Ed Cox</a> - Director, IPPR North, and Northern Economic Futures Commission Deputy Chair</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jane_Smith" title="Jane Smith">Jane Smith</a> - Director of Resources</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Finch" title="Tim Finch">Tim Finch</a> - Director of Communications</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Graeme_Cooke" title="Graeme Cooke">Graeme Cooke</a> - Research Director</li></ul>

<p><i>Associate Directors</i></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dalia_Ben-Galim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dalia Ben-Galim (page does not exist)">Dalia Ben-Galim</a> - Associate Director for Family, Community and Work</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tony_Dolphin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tony Dolphin (page does not exist)">Tony Dolphin</a> - Senior Economist and Associate Director for Economic Policy</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Guy_Lodge" title="Guy Lodge">Guy Lodge</a> - Associate Director for Politics and Power</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eileen_McGowan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eileen McGowan (page does not exist)">Eileen McGowan</a> - Associate Director for Fundraising and Partnerships</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Muir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rick Muir (page does not exist)">Rick Muir</a> - Associate Director for Public Service Reform</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sarah_Mulley" title="Sarah Mulley">Sarah Mulley</a> - Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Development</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Katie_Schmuecker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katie Schmuecker (page does not exist)">Katie Schmuecker</a> - Associate Director, IPPR North</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Will_Straw" title="Will Straw">Will Straw</a> - Associate Director for Globalisation and Climate Change</li></ul>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel_.282003.29">Personnel (2003)</span></h2>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="IPPR_Trustees">IPPR Trustees</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Powell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Powell (page does not exist)">Chris Powell</a> - Chairman</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeremy_Hardie" title="Jeremy Hardie">Jeremy Hardie</a> - Treasurer - also chairman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Opendemocracy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Opendemocracy (page does not exist)">Opendemocracy</a>, and of WH Smith</li><li>Dr <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chai_Patel" title="Chai Patel">Chai Patel</a> - Secretary</li><li>Professor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kumar_Bhattacharyya" title="Kumar Bhattacharyya" class="mw-redirect">Kumar Bhattacharyya</a> - former adviser to Thatcher <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.kkbooks.com/kumar%20bhattachrayya.html">[2]</a></li><li>Lord Brooke - formed TUC general council member</li><li>Lord Eatwell - former advisor to Neil Kinnock</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Gavron" title="Bob Gavron">Lord Gavron</a> (ex of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nicky_Gavron" title="Nicky Gavron">Nicky Gavron</a>), and ex-chair of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Guardian" title="Guardian" class="mw-redirect">Guardian</a></li><li>Dr <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chris_Gibson-Smith" title="Chris Gibson-Smith">Chris Gibson-Smith</a> - has been chair of London Stock Exchange, and the National Air Traffic Servives</li><li>Professor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anthony_Giddens" title="Anthony Giddens">Anthony Giddens</a> - from the LSE</li><li>Lord Hollick - of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_News_and_Media" title="United News and Media">United News and Media</a></li><li>Dr <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_Humphries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jane Humphries (page does not exist)">Jane Humphries</a> - historian from Oxford</li><li>Dr <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_Jowell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Jowell (page does not exist)">Roger Jowell</a> - from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Centre_for_Social_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Centre for Social Research (page does not exist)">National Centre for Social Research</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centre_for_Research_into_Elections_and_Social_Trends&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (page does not exist)">Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends</a> - another LSE person</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a> - former Labour leader</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Lambert" title="Richard Lambert">Richard Lambert</a> - former editor of the Financial Times</li><li>Professor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Marquand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Marquand (page does not exist)">David Marquand</a> - from oxford university</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frances_O%27Grady" title="Frances O'Grady">Frances O'Grady</a> - deputy sec general of TUC</li><li>Sir <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Perry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Perry (page does not exist)">Michael Perry</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Pitt-Watson" title="David Pitt-Watson">David Pitt-Watson</a> - managing director of various financial etc companies</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dave_Prentis" title="Dave Prentis">Dave Prentis</a> - secretary general of Unisom</li><li>(Lord) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Puttnam" title="David Puttnam">David Puttnam</a> - filmmaker?</li><li>Sir <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Martin_Rees" title="Martin Rees" class="mw-redirect">Martin Rees</a> - the Astronomer Royal</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jan_Royall" title="Jan Royall">Jan Royall</a> - head of the European Commission Office in Wales, former aide to Kinnock</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Sweeney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ed Sweeney (page does not exist)">Ed Sweeney</a> -</li><li>Baroness <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley_Williams" title="Shirley Williams" class="mw-redirect">Shirley Williams</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Janet_Young" title="Janet Young" class="mw-redirect">Janet Young</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Baroness_Young_of_Old_Scone" title="Baroness Young of Old Scone">Baroness Young of Old Scone</a></li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Staff">Staff</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Matthew_Lockwood" title="Matthew Lockwood">Matthew Lockwood</a>, IPPR Senior Research Fellow</li></ul>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_Link">External Link</span></h2>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>

<ul><li>Claire Newell and Robert Winnett, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2310639.html">Think tank ‘sells’ access to Whitehall</a>", <i>The Sunday Times</i>, August 13, 2006.</li></ul>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles">Resources and articles</span></h2>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Related_Sourcewatch_articles">Related Sourcewatch articles</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Keane" title="John Keane">John Keane</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Mepham" title="David Mepham">David Mepham</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Simon_Retallack" title="Simon Retallack">Simon Retallack</a> - former head of climate team</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Makinson" title="John Makinson" class="mw-redirect">John Makinson</a> - trustee</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patricia_Hewitt" title="Patricia Hewitt">Patricia Hewitt</a> - former deputy director</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Matthew_Taylor" title="Matthew Taylor">Matthew Taylor</a> - former Director (1999-2003)</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Catherine_Bithell" title="Catherine Bithell">Catherine Bithell</a> - former Director of Communications</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fiona_Ellis" title="Fiona Ellis">Fiona Ellis</a></li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Institute for Public Policy Research <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ippr.org/our-people">People</a>, organizational web page, accessed October 2, 2012.</span></li></ol>

    
        
    
    
            
    <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Think_tanks" title="Category:Think tanks">Think tanks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:United_Kingdom" title="Category:United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul></div></div><br />