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Insight from Gina McCarthy

February 14, 2021 By gmoke

After the Obama Presidency, Gina McCarthy, the former Administrator of the EPA, landed at Harvard as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics and ran a Tuesday afternoon study group, as IOP Fellows do. Since I have way too much time on my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: biden, bureaucracy, ecology, environment, epa, Gina McCarthy, harvard, motivation, obama, organization, sustainability, washington-dc

The cost of “reinventing” government

November 13, 2007 By dave-from-hvad

[Cross-posted from the Accountable Strategies blog]Death of a Spy Satellite Program  describes a “troubled partnership” between the government and Boeing, which led to the derailment of an ambitious program for a new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boeing, bureaucracy, contracting, iraq-weapons, reinventing-government, spy-satellite

The Continuing Attack on Bureaucracy

October 3, 2007 By dave-from-hvad

I focused on Chapter 3 of Kamarck's book, titled "Democratic Accountability,"  in which she lays out the basis of her argument that traditional bureaucracies have depended on adherence to rules and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bureaucracy, government, privatization, reinvention

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