Can We Still Govern?

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

Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

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.

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/

Law professor at USC Gould School of Law. Researches and teaches about how tax and fiscal policies affect normal folks.