The preoccupation with scandal has only aggravated the bureaucratic character of public services. A new “paradigm” for public service needs to emphasize quality of service, flexibility, and receptiveness to innovation–not just probity.
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East Asia’s Challenge—to Standard Economics
The conventional wisdom these days is that government intervention impedes development. Why, then, have Korea and Taiwan grown so fast?
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Citizen Organizing: Many Movements, No Majority
Citizen politics aims to spur a democratic resurgence at the grassroots. But as other forms of democratic participation decline, can citizen organizing make a difference?
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A World Unlocked
“We make our vision, and hold it ready for any amendment that experience suggests. It is not a fixed picture, a row of shiny ideals which we can exhibit to mankind and say: Achieve these or be damned. All we can do is to search the world as we find it, extricate the forces that […]
