Thing I want: a site that describes what every government agency does and how it contributes to the public good in 3 paragraphs or less.
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i’ve been staring at the plum book for 8 years trying to figure out how to make it accessible to a lay audience, too.
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But how can the public be engaged if the cause of their apathy is not confusion over policy but distrust for gov?
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Even if they comprehend how their tax money is going in what policy and why, they distrust the gov to actually implement it
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So when gov actors, pol parties, interest groups, judicial and enforcers are deemed corrupt then how can public be engaged?
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An example endemic corruption involving pol parties, in India https://scroll.in/article/806385/why-the-syndicate-is-the-construction-industrys-worst-kept-secret-in-kolkata …
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it depends on the source of that distrust, i think. if it’s deserved—like in corruption, then we need to fix government
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It's really inspiring to see the success of vTaiwan, it signals that atleast the core constituents of gov aren't corrupt
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well…there is corruption—and a *lot* of charges of corruption their work in deliberative democracy was a part of the solution
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but this might be a good start
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start with breakdown by cabinet agency, nest from there. hmm. Totally approachable, but exhaustive.
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tagged by keyword, give it a nice big index of synonyms for internal search optimization.
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