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When political parties undermine themselves
Fifty years ago, Republicans strengthened their opponents. Will Democrats do the same?
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Sarah F. Anzia
You can't contract out the compass
When government no longer understands its own systems, it no longer controls policymaking.
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Andrew Greenway
When politics dams feedback
The cybernetic approach to bureaucracy is promising, but we need to account for politics, too.
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Margaret Levi
Taming the unaccountability machine
“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.
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Dan Davies
How to give bureaucracy back its brains
The ideas that revolutionized computing could do the same for government — but not in the way you think.
 • 
David Dagan

November 2024

Trump's triumph over the establishment
Today’s Guardians don't recognize that they are an elite with responsibilities to the nation.
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Geoff Kabaservice
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The other diploma divide
Universities should stop alienating the conservative elites of the future.
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Steven Teles
3
Post-election debrief: How did it happen?
Watch our webinar, co-sponsored by The Liberal Patriot and The Science of Politics.
 • 
David Dagan
This Election Day, choose the spirit of association
Dear readers: We’re taking a break from our issue on the diploma divide and elite dysfunction to share an Election Day reflection that pulls together…
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David Dagan
How conservatives lost the institutions
Instead of cultivating the professions, the conservative movement has attacked the legitimacy of the nation’s organizational infrastructure.
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Matt Grossmann
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David A. Hopkins

October 2024

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