Remaking the State: A New Blueprint for American Democracy

American democracy is in trouble—but not only for the reasons we think.

Beyond polarization, money in politics, or the distortions of electoral democ­racy lies a quieter, more dangerous failure: Government itself has stopped working. Even before the current attacks on government, the old adminis­trative state was built as a technocratic, expert-driven black box: distant, unaccountable, and ultimately unable to deliver. Policies stall, unravel, or never arrive. Others deepen the very inequali...