Can We Still Govern?
Don Moynihan, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Julia Azari, Luke Farrell, Mark Histed, Pamela Herd, Nicholas Bednar, Anna Gassman-Pines, Sebastian Jilke, Alix Gould-Werth, Ashley Splawinski, Elizabeth AnanatImproving 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.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a Columbia University professor who studies the political economy of the United States, with an emphasis on labor and workers, the politics of organized interests, and social policy.
Political science professor. Knitter. Like to comment on presidency, political parties, the saltier the better.
Built cool stuff and solved crises @USDS @WhiteHouse and forcing myself to write about it occasionally
Lab head, NIH. Prev: policy for DPN. Pers views only. Neuro: how brain neural nets process info; understanding brain wiring, using lasers and neuro-AI. Policy: how to build institutions that support public goods, freedom, equality, and democracy.
Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research.
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Professor of Public Policy & Psychology and Neuroscience, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University.
Sebastian Jilke is an Associate Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Better Government Lab.
Alix Gould-Werth is Chief of Program and Strategy at Demos, the people's think tank. She has a love-hate relationship with Unemployment Insurance.
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.
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