"Empowering Bureaucrats to do Better"
Discussion with Dan Honig and Don Moynihan
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Dan Honig, Don MoynihanDate & time
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Mission Driven Bureaucrats argues that the key to better government lies not in stricter controls and more rigorous oversight but in empowerment and trust. Mission Driven Bureaucrats offers a roadmap for how governments can break from the status quo and cultivate a workforce of dedicated, empowered public servants. When bureaucrats are empowered to act on their mission-driven impulses, the results can be extraordinary. Managing more for empowerment - allowing autonomy, cultivating competence, and creating connection to peers and purpose - is often the path to better public performance and citizens’ welfare.
Author Dan Honig will be in conversation with the Ford School's Don Moynihan.
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Dan Honig is an associate professor of public policy at University College London's School of Public Policy/Department of Political Science, and an associate professor (with tenure) at Georgetown' University's McCourt School of Public Policy.
From 2023-8, he is the Principal Investigator on Relational State Capacity, a European Research Council-awarded five year exploration of state capacity which argues we need to move beyond simply seeing state capacity as the technical ability of the state to "make" or "deliver" things.
He is a member of Georgetown's Better Government Lab; a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development; an associate of Harvard's Building State Capability Program; an SNF Agora Faculty Affiliate; a member of the Scholars Strategy Network; a senior fellow at Artha Global; and on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Policy, amongst other appointments.
Don Moynihan is the Ford School’s J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. Previously he served as Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy Chair of Public Policy and the director of the La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Moynihan’s research seeks to improve how government works by studying the administrative burdens people encounter in their interactions with the government. He co-directs the Better Government Lab, which looks for technology and other types of interventions to help government improve access to the social safety net.
Moynihan has presented his research to policymakers at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, OECD, the Government Accountability Office, as well as governments around the world. His writing and research have been cited in President Obama’s and President Biden's budget proposals, OMB policy guidance under President Biden, and media such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and other publications.
