CANCELLED - Threats to the future of public service
Is this a turning point for American governance?
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Max Stier, Don MoynihanDate & time
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The Trump administration has led an unprecedented attack on the makeup and independence of the civil service. Against that backdrop, what is the role of a public policy school -- and its students -- in preparing for the future of good government? Is this a turning point for American governance?
Max Stier, President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, will discuss the implications of the decimation of the federal workforce with Ford School Professor Don Moynihan, who is also co-director of the Better Government Lab.
Speaker Bios:
Max Stier is the founding president and CEO of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. Under his leadership, the Partnership has been widely hailed as a first-rate organization and thought leader on government management issues.
Max has worked in all three branches of the federal government. He served on the personal staff of Congressman Jim Leach. He clerked for Chief Judge James Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and, clerked for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. In the interval between the two clerkships, he served as special litigation counsel to Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman at the Department of Justice.
After working at the Department of Justice, Max joined the law firm of Williams & Connolly, where his practice focused primarily on white-collar defense.
Max’s most recent government position was as the deputy general counsel for litigation at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
A graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School, Max is a member of the Inaugural Advisory Council of the National Institute of Social Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration, the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Advisory Council for the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, and the Advisory Board for the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.
Donald 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.
