Public policy perfection – The Select Committee

Is achieving perfection in public policy a mere pipe dream? And is being perfect everything we think and hope it is anyway? Could perfection undermine what is actually good when it comes to forming public policy?

All very deep and philosophical indeed. So, we put the whole topic before members of The Select Committee – The Mandarin Brains Trust.

The specific question being:

Would you accept that there is no such thing as a perfect public policy — or, if not, would you agree with the contention that the perfect can sometimes be the enemy of the good?

Their responses, which follow here, are once again highly informative and contain many examples illustrating valid points.