The men and women tasked with implementing policy are governed by the same incentives and constraints − whether in Beijing or Washington.
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More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.
Whether by shuffling agency personnel, creating new agencies, or limiting their capacity for oversight, a common tactic among power-hungry leaders is establishing control over the country’s bureaucracy.
Closing The Gap reports have successively highlighted the need for the public service to listen to First Nations people. How do we change the status quo?
The Supreme Court in recent terms has upended the interpretation of core laws. This term, the justices will decide just how far this revolution goes.
Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke ideals while pursuing their own agendas?
Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
The Trump administration may do well to make a friend of the federal bureaucracy it’s so intent on gutting, according to an expert who studies the role of civil servants in government.
The president manages more than 200 organizations that make up the federal government. A survey of 3,500 federal managers shows they struggle with recruiting and retaining skilled workers.
The backroom staff of our biggest bureaucracies are an easy political target, but making good on promises for cuts is harder than it looks.
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Visiting Lecturer, Georgia State University
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, New York University
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William R Kenan, Jr Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science; Co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions., Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor in Organizations, University of Southampton
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Public Policy, ADFA Canberra, UNSW
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Associate Professor of International Studies, American University School of International Service
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Project Coordination, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Project Lead and Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Assistant Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, Jackson School of Public Affairs, Yale University
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University