Can We Still Govern?
Don Moynihan, Miranda Yaver, Adrianna McIntyre, Don Kettl, Pamela Herd, Ashley Splawinski, Adam Scharpf, Christian Gläßel, Anna O. Law, Michael Wagner, Eddy Conroy, Jonathan Schwabish, Rebecca Johnson, Chloe EastImproving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens
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Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Immigrant. Researches and teaches about government, administrative burdens, and politicization.
Political scientist. Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh. Writing on administrative burden and inequality in health care. Bylines at NYT, WaPo, and The Guardian. Coverage Denied (CUP 2026).
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Don Kettl is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research.
Ashley Splawinski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She examines how administrative burdens and stakeholder competition shape policymaking. Her work has appeared in Policy Options and CBC Radio.
Adam is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Copenhagen. His research explores autocracies, dictatorships, and the dark side of political power.
Christian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School's Centre for International Security in Berlin, and an incoming Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research examines how authoritarian regimes work and why they fail.
Anna O. Law holds the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the political science department at the CUNY, Brooklyn College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar teaching and researching at the intersection of politics, law, and history.
Michael W. Wagner is the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin where he directs the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal.
Higher Education policy, practice, and comms nerd. Spend most of my time trying to make it easier and cheaper for students to go to and complete college.
I'm an Assistant Professor at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. I study how social service agencies use a mix of data and discretion to allocate scarce resources. More on my research here: https://rebeccajohnson.io/
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