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  1. "We are ardent believers in the power of government to improve people’s lives, and appreciate the frustration with unnecessary delays. In some cases, especially exclusionary zoning and other land use rules in wealthy suburbs, the current legal restrictions are in fact excessive. However, the proper answer to government dysfunction and the authoritarian threat at home and abroad is largely the same today as it was during the New Deal: Rather than railroad the public with top-down directives or megaprojects imposed by Washington and state capitols, we must renew our national commitment to democracy and public participation with ambitious acts of bold economic governance.

    The Trump Administration’s ability to move with lightning speed to impose unwanted infrastructure like Alligator Alcatraz on unwilling host communities, militarize cities with masked police and troops, and increase surveillance of Americans makes clear the urgency of balancing the state’s capacity to act decisively with the need for democratic legitimacy. “State capacity” is not inherently good: The what and how of state action matter.

    Moreover, in the medium and long term, the tradeoff between state capacity and democratic participation disappears—and even reverses. Public input into government decisions, including in environmental review procedures, not only restrains the worst tendencies of unaccountable state power but also enhances the capacity of the state itself, by providing valuable feedback to state technocrats about what is working and what isn’t. While turning off these feedback channels may generate a sugar high of quick results, doing so, as state capacity liberals propose, dooms effective governance further down the road. Top-down technocracy is brittle, and availing ourselves of shortcuts around the public is ultimately self-defeating."

    democracyjournal.org/magazine/

    #StateCapacity #Bureaucracy #Abundance #DemocraticParticipation #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Democracy

  2. observer.co.uk/news/columnists

    >> ...a system that has generated vast profits for private corporations while undermining the decision-making capacity of the state and leaving unheeded the aspirations of ordinary people. <<

    Can you hear, Keir?

    #Privatisation #UKPolitics #Politics #StateCapacity #KenanMalik

  3. How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies wired.com/story/china-honkers- #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #StateCapacity #Security

  4. Really grateful to be able to present at today’s #BanffForum in Whitehorse – thanks to Lydia, Jennifer, and the team for having me there!

    For anyone interested, here’s the slides and links that I shared today: docs.google.com/presentation/d #statecapacity

  5. NBD, just 🔥 and 🎤 drops from @sboots in a letter to the head of the public service in the government of Canada:
    sboots.ca/2023/11/06/to-the-cl

    “a set of radical (but implementable) ideas that would make the public service better equipped to handle the challenges of today and tomorrow” #statecapacity

  6. How does #democracy, #inclusion and #participation relate to the #resilience of our society to #collapse? 🌋 The research I reviewed shows that all those factors are important to have a stable society during catastrophic events. However, they only work if you also have the #StateCapacity to implement the interventions needed.

    New post in my #LivingLiteratureReview about #SocietalCollapse: existentialcrunch.substack.com

  7. “The Transit Cost Project has a detailed analysis of infrastructure costs around the world, and finds that many European countries build infrastructure at reasonable costs, and host competent civil servants who manage them effectively. The UK — and especially the US — build far more expensive.”

    #statecapacity open.substack.com/pub/arpitrag

  8. #Jobs #statecapacity #india
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    RT @JitendraAnthwal
    #भरती घोटालों के विरोध में देहरादून में प्रदर्शन कर रहे छात्रों-युवाओं पर वीरवार को हुए बर्बर लाठीचार्ज और नेतृत्वकर्ताओं को संगीन धाराओं में मुकदमा दर्ज कर जेल में डालने के विरोध में समूचे #उत्तराखंड में विरोध प्रदर्शन। हालांकि, जल्दबाजी में आहूत उत्तराखंड बंद असरदार नहीं रहा।
    twitter.com/JitendraAnthwal/st

  9. #statecapacity #jobs #india #Governance @IndiaG2O
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    RT @JitendraAnthwal
    उत्तराखंड में पिछले 22 साल से भर्ती दर भर्ती हो रहे पेपर लीक और घोटालों से युवा हताश हो चुके हैं। विरोध में आवाज उठाने वाले युवाओं का पुलिसिया दमन हो रहा। ऐसे में काशीपुर व पिथौरागढ़ से देहरादून पहुंची इन बेटियों के आंसुओं और आक्रोश का कोई जवाब है सरकार के पास?
    @pushkardhami twitter.com/i/web/status/16239
    twitter.com/JitendraAnthwal/st

  10. #statecapacity #resource
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    RT @ChaibasaPolice
    चाईबासा जिला के चक्रधरपुर थाना अंतर्गत रैपिड एक्शन फ़ोर्स 106 बटा. और चाईबासा पुलिस ने संयुक्त रूप से चलाया स्वच्छता एवं वृक्षारोपण अभियान:

    सुरक्षा, शांति और स्वच्छता तथा पर्यावरण सुरक्षा का दिया संदेश।
    twitter.com/ChaibasaPolice/sta

  11. #statecapacity #municipal #governance
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    RT @aicctukar
    We have been informed that the Govt. of K'taka will make all directly employed pourakarmikas (sweepers) permanent workers. This is a tremendous victory for the workers who went on strike and struggled for years on end demanding justice. Inquilab Zindabad!
    twitter.com/aicctukar/status/1

  12. I think it's worth celebrating that the FAA basically solved the problem in under 30 minutes. #StateCapacity

    That said, it being national breaking news is a function of the fact that journalists fly at rates no normal person would dream of.

  13. #statecapacity #government #Jobs
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    RT @The_Mooknayak
    राजस्थान: वरिष्ठ अध्यापक भर्ती परीक्षा का पेपर लीक, नहीं थम रहा सिलसिला

    रिपोर्ट- @mahir_mooknayak

    पूरी खबर @The_Mooknayak पर पढ़ें👇🏼
    themooknayak.com/education/pap

    twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxPkEnX
    twitter.com/The_Mooknayak/stat

  14. #statecapacity #jobs
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    RT @AlokChikku
    रेलवे ग्रुप डी का रिजल्ट आ गया है. EWS के कट-ऑफ, ओबीसी के कट-ऑफ से 10-15 नम्बर तक कम है.
    जो लोग EWS सर्टिफिकेट बना रखें हैं उनमें से 90% लोग संपन्न होते हैं मैं ऐसे लोगों को पर्सनली जानता हूँ जिनके घर के प्रत्येक रूम में एसी लगा है ।
    1/2
    twitter.com/AlokChikku/status/

  15. #statecapacity
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    RT @HansrajMeena
    उत्तराखंड में सिंचाई विभाग में रिक्त संयुक्त कनिष्ठ अभियंता के 228 पदों पर भर्ती की मांग को लेकर बेरोजगार देहरादून में आमरण अनशन पर बैठे है। विभाग द्वारा 2021 में 1000पदों के लिए भर्ती करानी थी लेकीन परीक्षा से पूर्व ही सिंचाई विभाग के 228पद हटा दिए। @pushkardhami शर्म आनी चाहिए।
    twitter.com/HansrajMeena/statu

  16. #statecapacity
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    RT @BrendanMIRROR
    One Professor at multiple medical colleges!

    A professor of physiology at GMERS Himmatnagar MCH was on July 26, transferred to the new Porbandar MCH. After NMC inspection at Porbandar on July 29, he was transferred to the new Morbi MCH.

    How are these inspections taking place?
    twitter.com/BrendanMIRROR/stat

  17. #jobs #vacancies #statecapacity important to pair this with millions of PMUs on one hand and within contractual and outsourced workers
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    RT @_maadhyam_
    Govt provides detailed #data on #vacancies in central govt departments (as on 01.03.2020).
    Railways, Defence (Civil), Home Affairs, Posts, Science & Tech, Audit & Accounts, Revenue show large vacancies!
    Data on backlog vacancies unfilled since 2016 for SC,ST,OBCs also given.
    twitter.com/_maadhyam_/status/

  18. #vacancies #india #government #statecapacity
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    RT @the_hindu
    Nearly 30% positions are vacant in middle to senior management rank in various Central government Ministries as the Union government has not promoted officials of the Central Secretariat Service in the past six years, reports @vijaita
    trib.al/3zje9ZJ
    twitter.com/the_hindu/status/1

  19. vacancies.gov.in #vacancies #statecapacity
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    RT @MilanV
    India's Supreme Court "expressed anguish over the 'recalcitrant attitude' of government in not appointing judges for high courts for years even where recommendations have been cleared by the Collegium." newindianexpress.com/nation/20
    twitter.com/MilanV/status/1425

  20. #statecapacity
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    RT @BrendanMIRROR
    Gujarat, one of top contributors to Direct Tax in India, has neither a Principal Chief Commissioner (PCCIT), nor a Director General (DGIT) for the past two & half months.

    It also has just 3 of 6 full-time Chief Commissioners (CCIT).

    ahmedabadmirror.com/staff-crun

    #incometax #Gujarat
    twitter.com/BrendanMIRROR/stat

  21. #statecapacity
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    RT @sirajnoorani
    #BREAKING | UP DOCTORS RESIGN

    14 doctors have resigned in one single district #Unnao in #UttarPradesh, alleging misbehaviour and mental harassment by administration officers.
    twitter.com/sirajnoorani/statu