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Eating Policy

Jennifer Pahlka
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In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

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    Author, Recoding America. Founder, Board Chair, and Advisor to the Recoding America Fund. Affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy. Founder and former ED of Code for America. Helped start the US Digital Service.

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