Philip K. Howard, “Fixing Broken Government”

January 19th, 02011 by Stewart Brand

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Government 4.0

A Summary by Stewart Brand

Americans have made major adjustments to our government before, Howard declared. At the beginning of the 20th century a Progressive era ended strict laissez-faire. The New Deal in the 1930s provided social safety nets. In the 1960s Civil Rights came to the fore. Now we need a fourth big change, because our government has managed to paralyze itself with…

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 19th, 02011 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Long Now Announcements, Seminars.

  • Larry vertal

    An optimistic and grounded approach to addressing central issues to what many of us have regarded as a sad end state to the current republic. I would suggest that the approach if it gains traction will require sun setting of regulatory agency powers as well. To not put too fine a point on it, but regulatory agencies have developed extra-legal encroachment on what should be within legislative prevue. This is partially due to perceived & real failure of legislative branch to do heavy lifting but is dangerous none the less. Excellent Seminar.

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