The Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Common Good will co-host a morning forum, "Bureaucracy vs. Democracy," discussing the need to reboot legacy bureaucracies. The event will consist of two panels looking at the bureaucratic causes of public paralysis and voter alienation. Philip K. Howard will present a paper (available here) summarizing economic, psychological, and legal critiques of bureaucracy.
Co-hosts:
Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
Philip K. Howard, Chair, Common Good
Panelists:
Patrick Foye, President, MTA
Francis Fukuyama, Stanford (political science) via video
Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow
Heather R. Higgins, Chairman, Independent Women’s Forum
Bruce D. Homer, CUNY (educational psychology)
Sally Katzen, NYU Law and former administrator of Clinton's OIRA
Paul C. Light, NYU (public service)
Robin Lake, University of Washington (education) via video
Meghan McArdle, Washington Post columnist
Paul Romer, NYU economist and a winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, via video
Richard Sennett, NYU and LSE (sociology)
Diana Taylor, banker/former regulator
Jeremy Waldron, NYU Law (legal philosophy)
Mark Whitaker, former Newsweek Editor in Chief
Event details:
Time: Tuesday, February 19; 9:00 AM to 12:10 PM, with breakfast at 8:15 AM
Location: Columbia University; International Affairs Building, Room 1512
420 West 118th Street
For more informations, please contact Ruth Mary Giverin or Lizzie Feidelson at [email protected].
