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Stop making people do the wrong jobs
Public servants are largely doing a great job — at the wrong jobs. What might a second Biden term do about that?
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On "Liberating Evaluation from the Academy"
I like Richard Hahn's argument that we should put the tools of causal research in more hands, especially in the hands of public servants
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Will academia buy policy-delivery fusion?
In which we learn when and why policy schools split off from schools of public administration, and ask what implications this has had for state…
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Upset about FAFSA? Here's something you can do about it
How can 70,000 emails from students applying for aid fall through the cracks?
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Jennifer Pahlka
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The Brits are way ahead of us. Again.
They're taking a test-and-learn approach not just to the delivery of services, but to policy itself. We need to be doing this in the US, especially as…
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Jennifer Pahlka
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The public wants I-95-ness
State capacity sounds like a nerdy concept, but people feel it, or the lack of it.
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Eating Policy
Eating Policy
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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