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State Capacitance

Kevin Hawickhorst

Recounting forgotten episodes in government history.

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In a break from bureaucratic history, I’m pleased to announce that one of my projects at the Foundation for American Innovation just launched: the American Governance policy team’s website Plain Job Titles Please.

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The Day Without Cities

Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, c/o Cincinnati Public Library

Many of us have been frustrated with local government. Perhaps the roads go unpaved, the streets go unplowed, or traffic tickets are handed out too aggressively. Most of us don...

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How the Bureaucracy Lost its Builders

Today’s federal agencies face a broad loss of confidence in their claims to expertise. A century ago, federal agencies also operated amid intense populist distrust, yet were run by scientists and engineers who served across administrations....

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Government Administration: An Annotated Bibliography

Reading Room in TVA Library. Source: NARA

Every problem in government has been faced before. The fastest way to understand how to tackle today’s challenges—or how to avoid past mistakes—is to study how others have solved or framed them.

T...

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How Process Charts Kept the Lights On

North Memphis Substation/Electric. Source: NARA

Editor’s note: State Capacitance is pleased to present How Process Charts Kept the Lights On, by a guest contributor who goes by the name F. Ichiro Gifford and maintains the blog Energy Cryst...

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    We traded rational-legal authority for NGOs and all we got was my lousy Substack. Institutionally skeptical institutionalist. Research Fellow at Foundation for American Innovation.

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