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"The problem is that governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes. If public policymakers start mimicking business founders, they will undermine their own ability to address complex societal challenges.

For startups, the highest priority is rapid iteration, technology-driven disruption, and financial returns for investors. Their success often hinges on solving a narrowly defined problem with a single product, or within a single organization. Governments, by contrast, must tackle complex, interconnected issues like poverty, public health, and national security. Each challenge calls for collaboration across multiple sectors, and careful long-term planning. The idea of securing short-term gains in any of these areas doesn’t even make sense.

Unlike startups, governments are supposed to uphold legal mandates, ensure the provision of essential services, and enforce equal treatment under the law – more important today than ever. Metrics like market share are irrelevant, because the government has no competitors. Rather than trying to “win,” it should focus on expanding opportunities and promoting the diffusion of best practices. It must be long-term minded, while achieving nimble and flexible structures that can adapt."

project-syndicate.org/commenta

Project Syndicate · Governments Are Not Startups | by Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel - Project SyndicateMariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.

"The first step may be to finally recognize that “running government like a business” has always been a red herring. The government is not a business — it is the thing that makes business possible. Unregulated markets frequently fail to produce good businesses so long as we define “good” as beneficial to their customers. And unregulated businesses, as we’ve recently been forced to witness, are even worse at producing good government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has long argued, the libertarian CEO types now running Washington are willfully ignorant of just how dependent their industries are on the backbone of public services like roads, telecoms, courts and publicly-funded research — services they have enjoyed largely for free since financial liberalization and business tax cuts have allowed them to shelter the vast majority of their profits.

Step two is much harder: articulating some positive idea of an activist government in the marketplace. For Doctorow, as for many others, this begins with “a very aggressive antitrust agenda” aimed at breaking up the monopolies that have become powerful enough to capture — and try to replace — the federal government under Trump. “You cannot have a referee who is weaker than the players on the field,” he told me.

“Anti-government nihilism cannot be countered without a defense of the government’s role in daily life.”

But there are other, more constructive roles the government could play. Doctorow suggested a federal jobs guarantee that would put a meaningful floor on the value of labor. Or a database of publicly funded, patent-free research, which would compel corporations to support interoperability — what Mazzucato has called, in the context of AI, a “decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good.”"

noemamag.com/the-good-society-

NOEMAThe Department Of Good Living | NOEMAOnce upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

As I near the end of my final two taught modules of my MPA, I'm thinking about the topic for my #thesis/ #dissertation

Having worked and campaigned for decades in #science and #technology, I am studying #PublicAdministration to better grasp why #debate, #decisions and #policy seem so divorced from the #knowledges available

For now, I'm referring to this as the "knowledge-decision gap" - probably naively, I've not had much time to dig into the field

For example #ClimateChange, #AI, #Health policies seem divorced from the #expertise of #academics in these fields. And the real-world #experience of citizens is poorly accounted for in #politics.

There are #vestedInterests, #lobbying, #biases, #prejudice and plain #ignorance. Are there patterns in the #KnowledgeDecisionGap that we can learn from - commonalities across fields? Are there examples of great success or appalling failure in transferring #knowledge into #decision? What do we already know? Where are the gaps in our knowledge about gaps 😜 ?

The subject is still wide open for me and due to be honed in April. I'd be delighted if anyone can chuck thoughts, ideas, references, comments my way 🙏

Check out this article in Public Administration Review I worked on with colleagues at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration in which we interrogate the conceptualization of race in the representative bureaucracy literature using Alvesson and Sandberg's "problematizing review" process:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab

#representativebureaucracy #publicpolicy #publicadministration #publicmanagement #problematizingreview
#race

Attempting my first Mastodon thread by highlighting an article I wrote with Dr. Rachel Fyall (University of Washington) & Dr. Jodi Benenson (University of Nebraska Omaha) titled "Talking about antisemitism in MPA classrooms and beyond". Written initially for those who teach #PublicAffairs #PublicAdministration #PublicPolicy, it is for anyone interested in addressing #JewishLiteracy & #antisemitism in the classroom #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon 1/?

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#Introduction / #Introductions
I am a Research Fellow at the #KULeuven #PublicGovernanceInstitute, also connected to the #DigitalSocietyInstitute. My field of study is the Digital Transformation of Belgian Public Agencies in a EU context. My current research is on #EnterpriseArchitecture fit for #PublicAdministration.
For more info, see:
soc.kuleuven.be/io/english/sta

soc.kuleuven.beLuc Van Tilborgh