The Obama administration wanted to open up government to citizen input. Why hasn’t it worked?
- Henry Farrell for The Washington Post June 20th, 2016
- Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/06/20/the-u-s-government-could-benefit-from-advice-from-the-public-getting-that-advice-may-be-against-the-law/
Beth Simone Noveck is the Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Her new book, “Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing,” was published by Harvard University Press. I asked her five questions by email about the book’s major arguments.
HF: Your book argues that the challenge for government has changed so that the real problem is not trying to limit corruption in the nineteenth century. Instead, it’s bringing new forms of expertise — including the expertise of ordinary citizens — into the governmental process.
