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Professor at Georgetown, Visiting Prof at Aarhus. Immigrant. Views my own. Administrative burdens guy: http://amazon.com/dp/087154444X/ …

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    Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

    I am a professor of public management, and have done research both on disaster response and the types of administrative burdens that Stephens references in his column. Stephens is not just wrong, he is wrong in a way that is deeply illuminating. 1/pic.twitter.com/RXEuAUBQ1e

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      2. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Some obvious rebuttals here: is "big government" the problem? No. The places with the best responses have political leadership that listened to and made use of competent bureaucracies, e.g. Singapore, Taiwan, Finland, S. Korea, NZ, Germany, Iceland. 2/

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      3. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Stephens ignores that the US system of govt is designed to be more subject to political control than other countries. Good govt reformers have argued for decades that thousands of political appointees lowers govt quality but conservatives in particular want responsiveness. 3/pic.twitter.com/9eALqH45GY

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      4. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        The price of political responsiveness is that people who often lack great experience or capacity are put in charge of big tasks. Bureaucracies can manage without political leadership for routine tasks, but not for new tasks or ambitious decisions situations like a crisis 4/

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      5. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Don Moynihan Retweeted Peri Arnold

        As presidency scholar Peri Arnold points out, good bureaucracy cannot replace good leadership. If you have political appointees who are unwilling to listen and terrified a President who wants to ensure his re-election, the bureaucracy cannot fix that. 5/https://twitter.com/PeriArnold/status/1248709035974680576?s=20 …

        Don Moynihan added,

        Peri Arnold @PeriArnold
        The most important lesson in the crisis is the price we pay for incompetent pol. appointees layered over the agencies, chosen by an incompetent WH. Resilient leaders can make flawed organization work but no reforms can make bad leaders good. https://twitter.com/Brian_J_Cook/status/1247571621516398592 …
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      6. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Trump's appointees were not good to start with. Their ability to perform well has been further weakened due to instability arising from Trump's preference for temporary officials, firing people and nominees that can't get Senate approval. 6/pic.twitter.com/f1Y9350YQ2

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      7. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        You can't defeat a pandemic with a temp agency. But across the federal government we have appointees who are some combination of unqualified, lack the trust of the President or Congress, and know they will be out soon. That is not a "big govt" problem. 7/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/07/trump-dismantled-the-very-jobs-meant-to-stop-the-covid-19-epidemic-173347 …

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      8. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        I could go through the failures of individual appointees, but they have been well-documented elsewhere. The point is the design of a federal govt dependent on this model of political leadership in integral to the same conservative approach to governing that Stephens champions. 8/

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      9. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Don Moynihan Retweeted dave karpf

        Ultimately, what is illuminating about Stephen's column is the lack of recognition of the cost of a decades- long attack on government competence. He reflexively recycles Govt = Bad. Thread by @davekarpf makes this point better than I could. 9/https://twitter.com/davekarpf/status/1248791672005238784?s=20 …

        Don Moynihan added,

        dave karpf @davekarpf
        Bret has nothing but time right now, and he uses it to rethink nothing at all. His columns are rote, empty. They’re like a greatest hits album by a band that had one radio hit in the 90s. His intellectual laziness is, as always, the most reliable part of his writing. (Fin)
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      10. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        There are other aspects to the conservative approach to governing we could get into - relying on public private partnerships that failed to deliver ventilators...10/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article …

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      11. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Stephens bemoans the rise in the number of federal employees in the FDA as evidence of the cause of the poor response to coronavirus. What he won't tell you: federal civilian employment as a whole has stayed steady in nominal terms and declined as a share of the population. 11/pic.twitter.com/gyymfP90ZY

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      12. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Stephens is especially irate at the federal waiver process making it harder for state & local govts to help people. What he won't tell you: Trump *appointees* at CMS & USDA used this process to make it harder for the poor to get healthcare and food 12/https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/460218-trumps-food-stamp-rule-change-will-hurt-19-million-households …

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      13. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Don Moynihan Retweeted Don Moynihan

        What worries me is that the same people that have worked for decades to undermine governing capacity in a way that weakened the coronavirus response will persuade others that big lesson is that they were right all along. 13/https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1238837998751559681?s=20 …

        Don Moynihan added,

        Don MoynihanVerified account @donmoyn
        TFW you have been a leading voice in a decades-long movement to diminish government capacity and then are shocked, shocked, that government is unable to respond to a major crisis https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1238811382621130752 …
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      14. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        We need a real conversation about our expectations of government moving forward. There are fair criticisms of bureaucracy to be made from all sides of the political spectrum. But you can't get there with ideologues who always have the same answers regardless of the situation. 14/pic.twitter.com/ygF5fgerGQ

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      15. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        This piece illustrates how the starve-the-beast philosophy of underinvesting in public capacity especially weakened our public health capacity to prepare for a pandemic (h/t @Bos_imm) 15/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/10/when-you-drown-government-bathtub-people-die/ …

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      16. Don Moynihan‏Verified account @donmoyn 11 Apr 2020

        Great interview from @JeremyKonyndyk that gets at a) how political leadership really matters when governments face non-standard crises that the bureaucracy has not turned into SOPs, and b) how Trump's leadership style undercuts bureaucratic response. 16/ https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/21166093/coronavirus-covid-trump-response-fox-news …pic.twitter.com/pkV767ypd0

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