Policy First, Politics Last

La Tercera

Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

Tony Blair says “the center is where you put policy first and politics last.” One possible translation is: the center is to put public policies first and party politics at the end. My idea is to rescue a basic rule of good governance: before setting a political position, you have to look at the data. There may be dialogue between politics and politics, by the way. But when partisan politics overshadows public policy analysis, the risk is to end …