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How the Feds Invented Lean Manufacturing
Before Toyota, there was the Social Security Administration.
Jun 23
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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May 2025
The Solicitors Against the Circuit
By Jameson Payne: How the DC Circuit built up the bureaucracy, and how the state Solicitors General pared it back.
May 23
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Jameson Payne
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New: Accounting for State Capacity
Have I painted my 6,500 word masterpiece?
May 20
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Uncle Sam's Problem Children
The five most problematic types of government programs according to Herbert Emmerich. A new series on efficient executive branch reorganization.
May 16
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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April 2025
Truman's Bureaucrats
Paperwork reduction before the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Apr 16
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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March 2025
The DOGE of the 1880s
When Congress made the government efficient
Mar 3
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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February 2025
Donations in WWII: the Treasury's Records
Uncle Sam wants you, but would settle for fifteen thousand pigeons.
Feb 10
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Donations in WWII: the Treasury's Records
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USDA Reorganization: Regulatory Capture by Design
The Jekyll Island of the Department of Agriculture.
Feb 3
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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USDA Reorganization: Regulatory Capture by Design
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January 2025
Notes on Personnel Positions
There's more than one way to pay a bureaucrat
Jan 27
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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TWI versus Gulick: From implementation to "policy planning"
What I want to know is: Where did the process charts go?
Jan 20
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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IRS Reform: The People Respond
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Jan 16
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Plain Language in the 1950s
How the feds learned to write gooder
Jan 13
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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