Can We Still Govern?
Don Moynihan, Miranda Yaver, Adrianna McIntyre, Gabriel Scheffler, Don Kettl, Pamela Herd, Michael Wagner, Eddy Conroy, Jonathan Schwabish, Rebecca Johnson, Chloe East, Ariel Jurow Kleiman, Andrea Scoseria KatzImproving 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
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.
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.
Andrea Scoseria Katz teaches constitutional law at WashU Law, where she writes on constitutional law, the American presidency, and the history of executive power.
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