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State Capacitance

Kevin Hawickhorst

Recounting forgotten episodes in government history.

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Announcing a New Project: Plain Job Titles Please

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

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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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    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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