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The doctrine
Crafting the New Civil Service
What makes a public servant worth trusting?
What it is
The doctrine behind the work.
Modern government has the best people it has ever had: hyper-competent specialists who can answer how, but are rarely asked why. The result is a crisis of the competent, and a public that no longer feels it is governed with wisdom. Crafting the New Civil Service goes back to the scholar-official, the public servant chosen for character as much as skill, and asks what the classic principles of the civil service must become in a high-velocity age: not tenants of the state, but custodians of the public trust. It is the doctrine underneath everything the Institute builds, and it is being written now.
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The doctrine, applied.
FRAME for Mobility
The doctrine applied to transportation policy: a from-scratch rewrite of the federal surface transportation law.
Plan for Planning
The doctrine applied to the craft of planning: The Lost Art of the Plan, the Institute's book.
Our Work
Everything the Institute is building, and the library of essays, drafts and reports.