Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-11-22
Books mentioned on In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Recoding America
Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka is a policy book that examines why government programs often fail to deliver.
Recommended“Jennifer paa is the the founder of code for America and the author of one of the very best books on why government doesn't deliver recoding America”
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Voice and inequality
Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy by Theda Skocpol explores how changes in civic associations and political organizations have impacted democratic representation and the influence of ordinary citizens.
Recommended“the first is a classic by theeta Scotch called voice and inequality the transformation of American Civic democracy”
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Inequality and American Democracy
Inequality and American Democracy by Lawrence R.
Recommended“the first is a classic by theeta Scotch called voice and inequality the transformation of American Civic democracy”
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The Unaccountability Machine
The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies is a sharp and engaging exploration of why complex modern societies so frequently experience massive institutional failures where, despite exhaustive investigations, ultimate responsibility for the disaster can never be pinned on any single individual.
Recommended“the second one is the unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies which is just a fantastic exploration of why when things go very wrong in our society”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and in the process and I talk about this in my book The Rise of the conservative legal movement what happened is that the professions became liberalized but liberalism also became professionalized...”
“what happened is that the professions became liberalized but liberalism also became professionalized to the point where both all those institutions including government institutions are now seen as kind of part of the democratic party extended Network and Republicans almost by default have become the party of being opposed to those institutions and suspicious of them and skeptical”
Own book Abundance
“I've been working on a book called abundance with Derek Thompson sort of all about why it's become so hard to build why it has become hard to to fund the kind of science that that leads to new inventions”