{"id":3860,"date":"2024-04-17T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/?page_id=3860"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:04:40","slug":"a-new-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/act-now\/a-new-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3860\" class=\"elementor elementor-3860\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7103a15c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7103a15c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Act Now: A New Vision<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2902fda elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2902fda\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-67e9f7d\" data-id=\"67e9f7d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1dad2c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c1dad2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision-702x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3867\" alt=\"A visual representation of the issues involved in a New Vision\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision-1054x1536.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A_New_Vision.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">\"Act Now: A New Vision\" by the Common Sense Policy Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ce4955c\" data-id=\"ce4955c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc64546 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc64546\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Since the 1970s, the view has been put forward that the state is\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">inefficient, obstructive or powerless. This view is an ideological\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">smokescreen endorsed by people who recognise the state\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">power and want to control it for their own interests. In fact, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">modern state, appropriately plural and democratically accountable,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">is a very effective institution, the only kind of institution\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">that can underpin the social order and ensure a fair distribution\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">of resources. Political parties have banked on the idea\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">that growing the size of the gross national product (GDP) will\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">increase wellbeing for everyone, through \u2018trickle-down\u2019, even if\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">inequality grows and communities are destroyed. The unsustainability\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and failure of this idea is evident. The state is having\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">to mitigate an ever larger accumulation of downstream social\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and health problems that this approach has generated. We outline\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">five principles against which a reformed state should assess\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">every potential policy: will it increase equality, will it promote\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">freedom from domination, will it tackle the social determinants\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">of ill health, will it build community wealth and will it help to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">level up places?<\/span><\/p><p>There is a compelling and overwhelming body of evidence that\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">certain policy programmes are better than others, and that the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">better ones are grounded in concern for a cluster of principles.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e2c050 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e2c050\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-98dbff4\" data-id=\"98dbff4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ed0b8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7ed0b8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Recommendations<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-624ff18 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"624ff18\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47c439b\" data-id=\"47c439b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a96575 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a96575\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Policymakers need to scrutinise every policy against five key&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">principles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Will it enhance equality?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Will it promote freedom from domination?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Will it tackle the social determinants of ill health?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Will it build community wealth?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Will it help level up places?<\/li>\n<\/ol><div><div>These are fundamental questions that can be applied easily. It is&nbsp;<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">the duty of government, as the embodiment of the social interest,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">to apply them in every case.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act Now: A New Vision &#8220;Act Now: A New Vision&#8221; by the Common Sense Policy Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/) Since the 1970s, the view has been put forward that the state is\u00a0inefficient, obstructive or powerless. 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