Public contribution
Methods and findings should add to shared policy capability where confidentiality, rights and public interest permit.
The Institute
European in purpose. Collaborative in practice.
Civic Method Institute is being established to improve how public policy is designed, tested, evaluated and learned from.
Mission
Serve democratic institutions by improving the evidence and reasoning available to them.
CMI brings policy research, systems analysis, evaluation and experimentation into one continuous learning discipline.
Public institutions must act before uncertainty disappears. The relevant standard is therefore not perfect prediction, but disciplined reasoning, proportionate testing and the ability to adapt when observed outcomes differ from expectations.
CMI’s institutional ambition is to bring together policy researchers, public administrators, economists, behavioural and social scientists, systems practitioners, legal experts and people with direct experience of the issues under examination.
Current status
Institution in formation.
The public standard begins with saying what exists now and what remains to be established.
- Institutional thesis
- Established
Public policy should be designed to generate and preserve learning.
- Founding research agenda
- Published
Three initial capability questions are open for development.
- Legal structure
- To be published
No legal form or registration claim is made on this site.
- Team and advisory structures
- To be published
No names, roles or affiliations are presented before confirmation and consent.
- Operational location
- To be published
No Brussels, Paris or other physical presence is implied.
Institutional model
Knowledge that outlasts an assignment.
Decision relevance
Research outputs should be designed for the legal, administrative and political conditions in which decisions occur.
Institutional memory
Engagements should leave behind traceable reasoning, transferable lessons and clearer future decision rules.
Working with CMI
Begin with the policy question.
CMI welcomes conversations with public institutions, research organizations and public-interest foundations confronting consequential policy questions.