Chapter 14 Leaning Government Operations
Is Federalism Unlean? or a PCDA Opportunity?
Justice Brandeis famously championed the notion of states as laboratories for social and economic experiments:
Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation. It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Louis Brandeis, 1932
On the other hand, if such experiments are not guided by reason, the lack of cohesion can have tragic results. In May 2021, as pandemic deaths neared 600,000, Donald F. Kettl’s column ...
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