“Making Bureaucracy Work for Democracy” A conversation with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, K. Sabeel Rahman, and Cristina Rodriguez

APEX PANEL EVENT AT ISPS

Three leading scholars—two fresh from the Biden Administration—discuss a pressing question: How can the American administrative state better place issues of equity, distribution, sustainability, and dignity at the center of U.S. policymaking? Major shifts in federal bureaucratic practices that were sparked in part by the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated during the Biden Administration. These changes range from an increased emphasis on racial equity to changing protocols for data gathering to new standards for regulatory impact analysis to new procedures for ensuring citizen access to valued public services. How should we understand these shifts? How well are they working? What are the greatest political and judicial threats to them? How can they be built on and improved? And how can they be grounded in a deeper philosophy of public administration for the twenty-first century?

Panelists:
• Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
• K. Sabeel Rahman, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
• Cristina Rodriguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Jacob Hacker (Moderator), Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Registration information and panelists’ papers are available at this link: https://isps.yale.edu/form/rsvp-for-making-bureacracy-work-for-democracy…

This event is being sponsored by the American Political Economy eXchange (APEX) at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).