Common Good

Offering a new governing vision: replace red tape with individual accountability / Chair: @PhilipKHoward

[Common Good @CommonGood]

.@usnews interviews @PhilipKHoward:

[U.S. News & World Report @usnews]

A new study shows that more than 90% of Americans believe the government can make positive change, but fewer than half think it actually does. https://t.co/rOx4Y8vefy

[U.S. News & World Report @usnews]

A new study shows that more than 90% of Americans believe the government can make positive change, but fewer than half think it actually does. https://t.co/rOx4Y8vefy

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Artificial intelligence could lock in every inanity of dealing with public rules and procedures. But with a different approach, it may actually help policymakers become more effective, writes Philip K. Howard. https://t.co/wGQ2uH8pye

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Organized Labor and Public Sector Unions

Californians hold generally favorable views of unions in the abstract. Nearly half (46%) say unions benefit workers in both the private and public sectors, while only 22% believe that unions generally do more harm than good. Democrats are particularly supportive, with roughly two-thirds expressing a broadly positive view of unions.

Voters are less favorable when asked specifically about public-sector unions and their role in government. Nearly half of Californians (48%) believe that public-sector unions have too much influence over elections and government decision-making, compared with just 14% who say they have too little influence.

Nearly two-thirds of Californians (63%) also support limiting the power of public-sector unions if doing so would make it easier to reward high-performing employees, discipline poor performers, and deliver better public services at a lower cost. Notably, majorities of independents (62%), Democrats (53%), Raman supporters (59%), and Bass supporters (52%) are in favor of reforms aimed at limiting public-sector union power and improving accountability and service delivery.

Support for organized labor therefore coexists with skepticism about public-sector unions and openness to limits tied to better government performance.

[ND Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Govt. @NDConStudies]

LIVE IN FIVE | Join us at @NotreDame to hear from @PhilipKHoward about "Responsibility Versus Red Tape: Why Human Judgment Can't Be Strained Through a Legal Sieve."

https://t.co/twjsqjHvhD

[ND Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Govt. @NDConStudies]

How do we restore effectiveness, responsibility, and common sense to American governance?

Join us next week on Wednesday, October 7 for a public lecture with @PhilipKHoward at @NotreDame: "Responsibility Versus Red Tape."

More details here: https://t.co/iP06ZNKRFg

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

"I Also Sent My Children to a Nonselective, Overwhelmingly Minority Public School, but It Wasn’t a Sacrifice." https://t.co/Na8x2ICQvu

[Nicholas Bagley @nicholas_bagley]

Democrats used to be into education reform. Then they got tired of fighting the teachers’ unions. Now they’ve abandoned the field.

My latest over at @thestatesforum:

https://t.co/TLGjZmUEjl

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

“We’re still trapped in this kind of quicksand of law that we created, where no one can make a judgment.”
~@PhilipKHoward

[Common Good @CommonGood]

Marina Nitze cites @PhilipKHoward in essay for @pahlkadot's 'Eating Policy' Substack:

[Andy Wheeler @CrimeDecoder]

https://t.co/8UsN6tWd4s

No real easy fix beyond folks need to really think hard about rigid rules vs most should really need to have some discretion baked in.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

"Washington State had a rule that you could not get licensed as a foster parent if you didn’t recycle. One of the taskforce licensors shared that she had never been able to license a family living on tribal land, because they had no recycling service."

https://t.co/Uo9CWGNo4A

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

"Society might work better if people understood what was expected of them and had room to use their judgment," @PhilipKHoward of @CommonGood writes in the Red Tape newsletter. https://t.co/pi3X3uuCwy

[Common Good @CommonGood]

Read our latest newsletter -- "Human Judgment. Human Accountability." -- on AI, the role of human judgment, and America's need to abandon the red tape state:
https://t.co/dV1TAjqze5

[Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili]

The great @PhilipKHoward with some hard truths:

"The phobia against human judgment is America’s unspoken taboo. As a result, the American state is floundering....This antihuman governing system helped spawn populism."
https://t.co/RfMtpU8nNN

[Common Good @CommonGood]

.@PhilipKHoward is in today's @PostOpinions:
https://t.co/IV7JRV4pyX

[Quin Hillyer @QuinHillyer]

Quin Hillyer: New Orleans should follow state’s lead by limiting government unions https://t.co/BnMQA0mLgN via @nolanews @PelicanInst @NRTW @PhilipKHoward

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

“So we have this system that assumes that right and wrong can be proved objectively. That is manifestly false.”
~@PhilipKHoward

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

Glad to be in today's Washington Post with my opinion piece! For the sake our families and our collective mental health, LET KIDS ROAM!

https://t.co/vHZ2uCHRht

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

A really interesting piece from my colleague Rachel Canter.

She crunched the numbers and found blue states, and states with strong teachers' unions, have been slower to adopt the sorts of literacy reforms that succeeded across the South. However...

https://t.co/JN0QuKBVem