Reinventing Government: Twenty Years Later

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Reinventing Government: Twenty Years Later

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The American Government is a large. Many claim it is also slow to move and wasteful. In 1993, the book Reinventing Government took this monolith as its target and offered up a way to change it, to make government nimble, responsive, and efficient. In doing so, it brought the ideas of privatization and entrepreneurship out of the business world and into Democratic public policy. The Clinton Administration was one of the books most enthusiastic supporters and Vice President Gore spearheaded a reinventing government commission. On this episode, we revisit that book to ask about its solutions and its legacy.

David Osborne is the author or co-author of five books: The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis (2004); The Reinventor’s Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government (2000), Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies For Reinventing Government (1997), Reinventing Government (1992), and Laboratories of Democracy (1988). He has also authored numerous articles for the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Republic, Inc., Governing, and other publications.

He is also a senior partner of The Public Strategies Group, a consulting firm that helps public organizations improve their performance.

Two papers that David mentioned in the show (click link):

“A New Model for American Education”

“Improving Charter School Accountability: The Challenge of Colsing Failing Schools.”

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Publication Date

7-14-2013

Publisher

Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

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Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

Politics ; Administrative agencies--United States ; Bureaucracy--United States ; Government productivity--United States ; Entrepreneurship--United States

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Philosophy

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