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The Permitting Bill is a State Capacity Bill
It’s not substantive regulations that are the problem, it’s broken permitting procedures
Nov 6 • Alex Mechanick
Do Not Remove This Tag
Why agency mythos around the Paperwork Reduction Act has ultimately doomed it
Oct 26 • Marina Nitze
How to Peel a Banana
Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon
Sep 21 • Marina Nitze
The Crisis We've Been Waiting For
It's time for government to move fast and build things
Sep 3 • Aaron Lemon-Strauss
Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not
Prescribed burns and unprescribed ones, and what it means to me to be where I am
Aug 22 • Jennifer Pahlka
Checking in on Outcomes Reviews
New findings in California’s experiment in shifting incentives for legislators, and I find out about program I really should have known about.
Aug 20 • Jennifer Pahlka
Thinking the unthinkable
Can you imagine a state without a food stamps program? Should you?
Aug 7 • Jennifer Pahlka
Rebuilding the machinery of government can't be a partisan project
Voters can't reward what they never see delivered. That's everyone's problem.
Published on The Renovator • Jul 24
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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