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📊 Policy Evaluation

Rigorous assessments of whether policies actually achieve what they promise, applying evidence and methodology to separate effective governance from political theater.
Understanding Public Policy
by Thomas R. Dye • 1969
Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.
3.81
244
🏛️ Public Policy Analysis🇺🇸 American Government🔍 Policy Frameworks
Understanding Public Policy Summary
Understanding Public Policy 90%
Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.
by Thomas R. Dye 1969
3.81
244 ratings
🏛️ Public Policy Analysis🇺🇸 American Government🔍 Policy Frameworks
An Introduction to the Policy Process
by Thomas A. Birkland • 2001
Policy fails less from bad ideas than from the battles over attention, framing, and implementation.
3.58
288
🏛️ Policy Process📋 Agenda Setting⚙️ Policy Implementation
An Introduction to the Policy Process Summary
An Introduction to the Policy Process 89%
Policy fails less from bad ideas than from the battles over attention, framing, and implementation.
by Thomas A. Birkland 2001
3.58
288 ratings
🏛️ Policy Process📋 Agenda Setting⚙️ Policy Implementation
Policy Paradox
by Deborah Stone • 1988
Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.
3.87
1k+
🏛️ Policy Analysis🔲 Framing Effects🏗️ Social Construction
Policy Paradox Summary
Policy Paradox 89%
Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.
by Deborah Stone 1988
3.87
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Policy Analysis🔲 Framing Effects🏗️ Social Construction
How to Run A Government
by Michael Barber • 2015
A small delivery team, relentless data, and boring routines: the real engine of government reform.
3.90
402
📋 Policy Implementation🏛️ Public Sector Reform📊 Evidence-Based Policy
How to Run A Government Summary
How to Run A Government 89%
A small delivery team, relentless data, and boring routines: the real engine of government reform.
by Michael Barber 2015
3.90
402 ratings
📋 Policy Implementation🏛️ Public Sector Reform📊 Evidence-Based Policy
The Cost-Benefit Revolution
by Cass R. Sunstein • 2018
Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.
3.62
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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis📜 Regulatory Policy🏛️ Technocratic Governance
The Cost-Benefit Revolution Summary
The Cost-Benefit Revolution 89%
Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.
by Cass R. Sunstein 2018
3.62
116 ratings
⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis📜 Regulatory Policy🏛️ Technocratic Governance
Social Justice Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell • 2023
Before you remake society for fairness, check the facts. They rarely support the theory.
4.38
3k+
📋 Public Policy Critique🔄 Unintended Consequences📊 Statistical Fallacies
Social Justice Fallacies Summary
Social Justice Fallacies 89%
Before you remake society for fairness, check the facts. They rarely support the theory.
by Thomas Sowell 2023
4.38
3k+ ratings
📋 Public Policy Critique🔄 Unintended Consequences📊 Statistical Fallacies
Best Things First
by Bjørn Lomborg • 2023
Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.
3.90
388
🌍 Development Economics📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis🤲 Effective Altruism
Best Things First Summary
Best Things First 88%
Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.
by Bjørn Lomborg 2023
3.90
388 ratings
🌍 Development Economics📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis🤲 Effective Altruism
Fragmented Democracy
by Jamila Michener • 2018
Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.
4.23
120
🏛️ American Federalism🏥 Health Policy⚖️ Political Inequality
Fragmented Democracy Summary
Fragmented Democracy 88%
Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.
by Jamila Michener 2018
4.23
120 ratings
🏛️ American Federalism🏥 Health Policy⚖️ Political Inequality
The Two Percent Solution
by Matt Miller • 2003
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
3.98
89
🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform
The Two Percent Solution Summary
The Two Percent Solution 88%
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
by Matt Miller 2003
3.98
89 ratings
🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform
Bring Back the Bureaucrats
by John DiIulio • 2014
Government grew. Bureaucracy didn't. The case for hiring federal workers to make it smaller.
3.22
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🏛️ Public Administration🔧 Government Reform📄 Outsourcing Critique
Bring Back the Bureaucrats Summary
Bring Back the Bureaucrats 88%
Government grew. Bureaucracy didn't. The case for hiring federal workers to make it smaller.
by John DiIulio 2014
3.22
32 ratings
🏛️ Public Administration🔧 Government Reform📄 Outsourcing Critique
The Vision of the Anointed
by Thomas Sowell • 1995
Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.
4.40
3k+
🧐 Public Policy📢 Social Criticism📊 Statistical Fallacies
The Vision of the Anointed Summary
The Vision of the Anointed 88%
Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.
by Thomas Sowell 1995
4.40
3k+ ratings
🧐 Public Policy📢 Social Criticism📊 Statistical Fallacies
Results
by Charlie Baker • 2022
A governor's playbook for fixing bureaucracy: capable people, honest data, relentless execution.
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🏛️ Public Administration🔧 Government Reform⚙️ Execution
Results Summary
Results 88%
A governor's playbook for fixing bureaucracy: capable people, honest data, relentless execution.
by Charlie Baker 2022
3.80
89 ratings
🏛️ Public Administration🔧 Government Reform⚙️ Execution
Power to the Public
by Tara Dawson McGuinness • 2021
Government services fail because they skip users. The fix: design with people, real data, iterate.
3.98
320
🏛️ Civic Technology📜 Government Reform🧑‍💻 Human-Centered Design
Power to the Public Summary
Power to the Public 88%
Government services fail because they skip users. The fix: design with people, real data, iterate.
by Tara Dawson McGuinness 2021
3.98
320 ratings
🏛️ Civic Technology📜 Government Reform🧑‍💻 Human-Centered Design
Common Sense
by Joel Greenblatt • 2020
The same incentive logic that picks stocks can fix schools, wages, and banks.
3.65
276
🏛️ Economic Policy📚 Education Reform💡 Market-Based Solutions
Common Sense Summary
Common Sense 88%
The same incentive logic that picks stocks can fix schools, wages, and banks.
by Joel Greenblatt 2020
3.65
276 ratings
🏛️ Economic Policy📚 Education Reform💡 Market-Based Solutions
Recoding America
by Jennifer Pahlka • 2023
Government's tech catastrophes share one cause: it treats code as a purchase, never a practice.
4.37
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🖥️ Gov Tech🔄 Digital Transformation🔁 Agile Government
Recoding America Summary
Recoding America 88%
Government's tech catastrophes share one cause: it treats code as a purchase, never a practice.
by Jennifer Pahlka 2023
4.37
3k+ ratings
🖥️ Gov Tech🔄 Digital Transformation🔁 Agile Government
Rational Choice and Security Studies
by Michael E. Brown • 2000
Two visions of political science: one builds mathematical temples, the other wants to stop war.
3.78
9
🔒 Security Studies🧮 Rational Choice⚔️ Methodology Wars
Rational Choice and Security Studies Summary
Rational Choice and Security Studies 88%
Two visions of political science: one builds mathematical temples, the other wants to stop war.
by Michael E. Brown 2000
3.78
9 ratings
🔒 Security Studies🧮 Rational Choice⚔️ Methodology Wars
The Political System
by David Easton • 1953
Political science is rich in data but poor in theory. This 1953 diagnosis still holds.
3.96
28
🎯 Defining The Political📚 Political Theory⚖️ Values In Science
The Political System Summary
The Political System 88%
Political science is rich in data but poor in theory. This 1953 diagnosis still holds.
by David Easton 1953
3.96
28 ratings
🎯 Defining The Political📚 Political Theory⚖️ Values In Science
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis • 2018
Why a $40,000 health clinic in rural America reveals a government most Americans never see.
4.09
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🔬 Science Policy🇺🇸 Trump Administration📊 Open Data
The Fifth Risk Summary
The Fifth Risk 88%
Why a $40,000 health clinic in rural America reveals a government most Americans never see.
by Michael Lewis 2018
4.09
48k+ ratings
🔬 Science Policy🇺🇸 Trump Administration📊 Open Data
Superagency
by Reid Hoffman • 2025
AI multiplies human agency. That power will concentrate or spread. The choice is ours.
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1k+
🏛️ Ai Policy🌅 Tech Optimism⚖️ Ai Ethics
Superagency Summary
Superagency 88%
AI multiplies human agency. That power will concentrate or spread. The choice is ours.
by Reid Hoffman 2025
3.33
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Ai Policy🌅 Tech Optimism⚖️ Ai Ethics
On Leadership
by Tony Blair • 2024
A prime minister's playbook: plan, focus, deliver, and why efficacy beats populism.
3.86
808
🏛️ Political Leadership🎯 Political Strategy🔄 Government Reform
On Leadership Summary
On Leadership 87%
A prime minister's playbook: plan, focus, deliver, and why efficacy beats populism.
by Tony Blair 2024
3.86
808 ratings
🏛️ Political Leadership🎯 Political Strategy🔄 Government Reform
Mission Economy
by Mariana Mazzucato • 2020
State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.
3.85
3k+
💡 Innovation Economics🏛️ Public Sector Reform🏭 Industrial Policy
Mission Economy Summary
Mission Economy 87%
State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.
by Mariana Mazzucato 2020
3.85
3k+ ratings
💡 Innovation Economics🏛️ Public Sector Reform🏭 Industrial Policy
The Audit Society
by Michael Power • 1997
A critique of auditing: how it undermines the very trust and performance it seeks to secure.
3.92
36
🔍 Audit Culture🏛️ New Public Management📏 Performance Measurement
The Audit Society Summary
The Audit Society 87%
A critique of auditing: how it undermines the very trust and performance it seeks to secure.
by Michael Power 1997
3.92
36 ratings
🔍 Audit Culture🏛️ New Public Management📏 Performance Measurement
What We Owe Each Other
by Minouche Shafik • 2021
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
3.85
1k+
🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets
What We Owe Each Other Summary
What We Owe Each Other 87%
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
by Minouche Shafik 2021
3.85
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets
Spoilt Rotten
by dalrymple-theodore • 2010
Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.
3.96
1k+
🏛️ Cultural Criticism🗣️ Political Polemics🔍 Rational Inquiry
Spoilt Rotten Summary
Spoilt Rotten 87%
Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.
by dalrymple-theodore 2010
3.96
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Cultural Criticism🗣️ Political Polemics🔍 Rational Inquiry
The Handover
by David Runciman • 2023
Three inhuman agents run the world: states, corporations, and now AI. We have to pick one.
3.71
234
🏛️ Political Theory🏢 Corporate Power🤖 Ai Governance
The Handover Summary
The Handover 87%
Three inhuman agents run the world: states, corporations, and now AI. We have to pick one.
by David Runciman 2023
3.71
234 ratings
🏛️ Political Theory🏢 Corporate Power🤖 Ai Governance
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
by John M. Bryson • 1988
How public and nonprofit leaders turn mandates and mission into strategy that gets implemented.
3.65
364
🗺️ Strategic Planning🏛️ Nonprofit Management📋 Public Administration
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations Summary
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations 87%
How public and nonprofit leaders turn mandates and mission into strategy that gets implemented.
by John M. Bryson 1988
3.65
364 ratings
🗺️ Strategic Planning🏛️ Nonprofit Management📋 Public Administration
Classics of Public Administration
by Jay M. Shafritz • 1978
From ancient duty to modern governance: the readings that built public administration.
3.65
287
🏛️ Public Administration🧱 Organizational Theory🔍 Policy Analysis
Classics of Public Administration Summary
Classics of Public Administration 87%
From ancient duty to modern governance: the readings that built public administration.
by Jay M. Shafritz 1978
3.65
287 ratings
🏛️ Public Administration🧱 Organizational Theory🔍 Policy Analysis
San Fransicko
by Michael Shellenberger • 2021
Progressive compassion for the homeless and addicted is making both groups larger and sicker.
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4k+
🏙️ Urban Policy🏚️ Homelessness💊 Drug Policy
San Fransicko Summary
San Fransicko 87%
Progressive compassion for the homeless and addicted is making both groups larger and sicker.
by Michael Shellenberger 2021
4.01
4k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Policy🏚️ Homelessness💊 Drug Policy
Why Nudge?
by Cass R. Sunstein • 2014
Predictable human error justifies a new kind of paternalism, one that preserves choice.
3.47
245
📉 Behavioral Economics🏛️ Public Policy🧠 Cognitive Biases
Why Nudge? Summary
Why Nudge? 87%
Predictable human error justifies a new kind of paternalism, one that preserves choice.
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014
3.47
245 ratings
📉 Behavioral Economics🏛️ Public Policy🧠 Cognitive Biases
Simpler
by Cass R. Sunstein • 2013
Regulation doesn't need more weight; it needs simplicity, smarter defaults, and behavioral insight.
3.58
535
🧠 Behavioral Economics📜 Regulatory Reform📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis
Simpler Summary
Simpler 87%
Regulation doesn't need more weight; it needs simplicity, smarter defaults, and behavioral insight.
by Cass R. Sunstein 2013
3.58
535 ratings
🧠 Behavioral Economics📜 Regulatory Reform📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Tyranny of Metrics
by Jerry Z. Muller • 2017
The pursuit of measurable accountability is corrupting exactly the institutions it claims to fix.
3.69
2k+
📉 Performance Metrics🔄 Perverse Incentives🎮 Gaming Metrics
The Tyranny of Metrics Summary
The Tyranny of Metrics 87%
The pursuit of measurable accountability is corrupting exactly the institutions it claims to fix.
by Jerry Z. Muller 2017
3.69
2k+ ratings
📉 Performance Metrics🔄 Perverse Incentives🎮 Gaming Metrics
New Abnormal
by Aaron Kheriaty • 2022
The emergency never ended. It became a permanent way for the state to manage your body.
4.38
148
🏥 Public Health Policy⚖️ Medical Ethics🧬 Biopolitics
New Abnormal Summary
New Abnormal 87%
The emergency never ended. It became a permanent way for the state to manage your body.
by Aaron Kheriaty 2022
4.38
148 ratings
🏥 Public Health Policy⚖️ Medical Ethics🧬 Biopolitics
Good Economics for Hard Times
by Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2019
The data on immigration, trade, and inequality contradicts everything the policy fight assumes.
4.22
15k+
📊 Economic Policy🧠 Behavioral Economics📋 Evidence-Based Policy
Good Economics for Hard Times Summary
Good Economics for Hard Times 87%
The data on immigration, trade, and inequality contradicts everything the policy fight assumes.
by Abhijit V. Banerjee 2019
4.22
15k+ ratings
📊 Economic Policy🧠 Behavioral Economics📋 Evidence-Based Policy
The Human Cost of Welfare
by Phil Harvey • 2016
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
4.45
20
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare 87%
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
by Phil Harvey 2016
4.45
20 ratings
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
Democracy When the People Are Thinking
by James S. Fishkin • 2018
Shallow views run democracy. When citizens deliberate, their priorities shift, and policy follows.
3.82
28
🗳️ Deliberative Democracy📜 Constitutional Reform💭 Opinion Formation
Democracy When the People Are Thinking Summary
Democracy When the People Are Thinking 87%
Shallow views run democracy. When citizens deliberate, their priorities shift, and policy follows.
by James S. Fishkin 2018
3.82
28 ratings
🗳️ Deliberative Democracy📜 Constitutional Reform💭 Opinion Formation
Seeing Like a State
by James C. Scott • 1998
Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.
4.21
7k+
🏛️ Political Theory🏗️ State Planning🌱 Local Knowledge
Seeing Like a State Summary
Seeing Like a State 87%
Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.
by James C. Scott 1998
4.21
7k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Theory🏗️ State Planning🌱 Local Knowledge
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care
by Sally C. Pipes • 2008
The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.
3.54
24
🏥 Healthcare Policy📉 Free-Market Economics🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care Summary
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care 87%
The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.
by Sally C. Pipes 2008
3.54
24 ratings
🏥 Healthcare Policy📉 Free-Market Economics🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique
A Letter to Liberals
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • 2022
Science silenced, dissent crushed, trillions siphoned: the pandemic response that liberals policed.
4.39
359
🏥 Public Health Policy💉 Vaccine Safety⚖️ Civil Liberties
A Letter to Liberals Summary
A Letter to Liberals 87%
Science silenced, dissent crushed, trillions siphoned: the pandemic response that liberals policed.
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2022
4.39
359 ratings
🏥 Public Health Policy💉 Vaccine Safety⚖️ Civil Liberties
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
by Cass R. Sunstein • 2014
Fear, happiness, conspiracy beliefs: all misfire in the same predictable ways. Law can correct them.
3.14
167
🧠 Behavioral Economics🏛️ Public Policy⚖️ Legal Reasoning
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas Summary
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas 87%
Fear, happiness, conspiracy beliefs: all misfire in the same predictable ways. Law can correct them.
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014
3.14
167 ratings
🧠 Behavioral Economics🏛️ Public Policy⚖️ Legal Reasoning
Apocalypse Never
by Michael Shellenberger • 2020
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
4.16
6k+
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never 87%
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
by Michael Shellenberger 2020
4.16
6k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
The Price of Federalism
by Paul E. Peterson • 1995
Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.
3.37
19
💰 Fiscal Federalism🇺🇸 American Federalism📊 Public Finance
The Price of Federalism Summary
The Price of Federalism 87%
Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.
by Paul E. Peterson 1995
3.37
19 ratings
💰 Fiscal Federalism🇺🇸 American Federalism📊 Public Finance
Two Cheers for Anarchism
by James C. Scott • 2012
The anarchist's case: local know-how, small defiance, and messy disorder beat grand plans.
3.96
2k+
🏴 Anarchist Thought🏛️ State Critique📜 Local Knowledge
Two Cheers for Anarchism Summary
Two Cheers for Anarchism 87%
The anarchist's case: local know-how, small defiance, and messy disorder beat grand plans.
by James C. Scott 2012
3.96
2k+ ratings
🏴 Anarchist Thought🏛️ State Critique📜 Local Knowledge
The Thinkers
by E.J. Fagan • 2024
American polarization has a hidden engine: think tanks that supply each party with its own facts.
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15
🧠 Think Tanks🇺🇸 American Politics↔️ Political Polarization
The Thinkers Summary
The Thinkers 87%
American polarization has a hidden engine: think tanks that supply each party with its own facts.
by E.J. Fagan 2024
3.80
15 ratings
🧠 Think Tanks🇺🇸 American Politics↔️ Political Polarization
Pasteur's Quadrant
by Donald E. Stokes • 1997
The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.
3.82
150
🧪 Science Policy💰 Research Funding🧬 Basic Research
Pasteur's Quadrant Summary
Pasteur's Quadrant 87%
The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.
by Donald E. Stokes 1997
3.82
150 ratings
🧪 Science Policy💰 Research Funding🧬 Basic Research
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
by Thomas Sowell • 1999
Justice: once impartial rules, now equal results. The change quietly costs freedom and safety.
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3k+
🏛️ Political Philosophy⚖️ Legal Theory🚫 Social Justice Critique
The Quest for Cosmic Justice Summary
The Quest for Cosmic Justice 87%
Justice: once impartial rules, now equal results. The change quietly costs freedom and safety.
by Thomas Sowell 1999
4.38
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy⚖️ Legal Theory🚫 Social Justice Critique
Why Nothing Works
by Marc J. Dunkelman • 2025
Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.
3.79
1k+
🇺🇸 American Progressivism🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock🏘️ Housing Crisis
Why Nothing Works Summary
Why Nothing Works 87%
Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.
by Marc J. Dunkelman 2025
3.79
1k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Progressivism🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock🏘️ Housing Crisis
The Utopia of Rules
by David Graeber • 2013
Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.
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7k+
🌍 Political Anthropology🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique⚡ Structural Violence
The Utopia of Rules Summary
The Utopia of Rules 87%
Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.
by David Graeber 2013
4.02
7k+ ratings
🌍 Political Anthropology🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique⚡ Structural Violence
In the Long Run
by Jonathan White • 2024
The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.
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85
🗳️ Democratic Theory📜 Intellectual History💭 Political Imagination
In the Long Run Summary
In the Long Run 87%
The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.
by Jonathan White 2024
3.78
85 ratings
🗳️ Democratic Theory📜 Intellectual History💭 Political Imagination
The Submerged State
by Suzanne Mettler • 2011
Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.
3.88
267
🕶️ Hidden Welfare State💸 Tax Expenditures⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution
The Submerged State Summary
The Submerged State 87%
Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.
by Suzanne Mettler 2011
3.88
267 ratings
🕶️ Hidden Welfare State💸 Tax Expenditures⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution
Rewiring Democracy
by Bruce Schneier • 2025
AI writes laws, targets voters, judges cases. Democracy is an information system; AI is the driver.
3.67
91
🖥️ Digital Governance⚖️ Algorithmic Bias🏛️ Power Concentration
Rewiring Democracy Summary
Rewiring Democracy 87%
AI writes laws, targets voters, judges cases. Democracy is an information system; AI is the driver.
by Bruce Schneier 2025
3.67
91 ratings
🖥️ Digital Governance⚖️ Algorithmic Bias🏛️ Power Concentration
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