AUTHOR

Philip K. Howard

  • Good Government Begins with Accountability

    Letting officials take responsibility for results means they must answer to superior officials and, ultimately, to elected officials. This is how democratic government is supposed to work.

  • Democracy vs. Bureaucracy: The Most Important Battle in Washington Over the Next Four Years

    Two-thirds of Americans favor “major structural changes” in government. What’s missing in the current debate is a coherent vision for a new public operating system.

  • Fixing the Civil Service

    Once a cure for good government, the U.S. civil service system is now a cancer on the federal bureaucracy that is choking out efficiency and needs to be reformed.

  • How Congress Can Fix Broken Government

    American government today is run by dead people — past members of Congress who wrote all these statutes, and bureaucrats long gone who wrote the millions of words of regulations. Government is broken not mainly because past lawmakers were stupid, but because legislative programs almost never work out as planned.

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