So, what is Project Loom?
Project Loom is a research program about the machinery of governance: the systems that turn public decisions into things that actually happen.
The missing middle
A policy can be clear and still fail. A program can be funded and still stall.
What Loom examines
Who had authority? What depended on what? What capacity existed? Where did information move? Where could the system correct itself—and where could it not?
Three ideas
Governance capacity
The practical ability of institutions to turn decisions into sustained action.
Concept 02Implementation debt
The gap between what a policy requires and what delivery institutions can sustain.
Concept 03Dependency chains
The actors, systems, authorities, funding, contracts, and approvals a policy depends upon.
See them in practiceCase studies
Real cases make the concepts concrete.
Where next?
Read a case
See governance under real implementation conditions.
IF YOU WANT CONCEPTSLearn the vocabulary
Understand Loom's working concepts.
IF YOU WANT METHODExplore the research
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