So good, so good. Thanks for the Phil Converse reminder, and the politicization-breeds-failure argument, which takes us back to the future. One of my mentors was Bob Wood, an academic practitioner who helped create HUD, Model Cities, and advised various presidents. A major advocate of the "newish" field of public administration, he spoke fondly of his old friend Scotty Campbell of the Maxwell School, who served as the first director of the newly-created Office of Personnel Management in 1978. Both Campbell and Wood are grave-spinning over this current insanity, which takes us back to the days of patronage politics, graft, and self-dealing. Thanks for all you do; I just upgraded to learn more.
Change the poll question:
Should the other party be able to fire people who agree with me when they're in the White House? And only hire those who agree with their party line?
Yep - would love to see how sensitive this set of attitudes will be to question framing:.
So good, so good. Thanks for the Phil Converse reminder, and the politicization-breeds-failure argument, which takes us back to the future. One of my mentors was Bob Wood, an academic practitioner who helped create HUD, Model Cities, and advised various presidents. A major advocate of the "newish" field of public administration, he spoke fondly of his old friend Scotty Campbell of the Maxwell School, who served as the first director of the newly-created Office of Personnel Management in 1978. Both Campbell and Wood are grave-spinning over this current insanity, which takes us back to the days of patronage politics, graft, and self-dealing. Thanks for all you do; I just upgraded to learn more.
I worked at the Campbell Institute! Also did a paper based on some of Campbell’s archives.
Cool! Would love to see it! 💞