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Bessette/Pitney’s AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP reviews the idea of "deliberative democracy." Building on the book, this blog offers insights, analysis, and facts about recent events.

Friday, November 22, 2024

Policy Schools Have Few Conservative Faculty Members

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Frederick M. Hess and Riley Fletcher at the Manhattan Institute: Setting aside concerns about the broader shape of the American professoria...

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Federal Headcount

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Musk and Ramaswamy promise "mass head count reductions" across the federal government in a new WSJ op-ed. They say they want to ...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Polarization and Trust in Science

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Many posts have discussed partisan polarization . Alec Tyson and Brian Kennedy at Pew: Roughly nine-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-lea...

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Waste Fraud and Abuse!

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Americans vastly overestimate the amount of waste in the budget Andrew Rudalevige at Good Authority: Probably the closest quasi-recent para...

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Recess Appointments

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Amber Phillips at WP: “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appoi...

Monday, November 11, 2024

Veterans of Afghanistan

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Today is Veterans Day . Many posts have discussed veterans . Three years ago, Marine Corps veteran William Galston wrote at Brookings : I...

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Veto-Proof Majorities

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Many posts have discussed state legislatures. Ballotpedia: State governors may veto bills advanced by the state legislature. With sufficie...

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