Gray Center Briefs
Thoughts on Civil Service Reform: A Tale of Two Civils
Ronald A. Cass, Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law Executive Summary: Decisions about how and how much to embrace civil service protections are, for the most part, political choices, […]
The New Spoils System: Government By the Unions, For the Unions
Philip K. Howard, Chair, Common Good Executive Summary: Public sector unions wield outsized influence over American government. That power prevents effective managerial control and fosters cynicism toward democratic processes. Successful […]
Staffing Congress to Strengthen Oversight of the Administrative State
Kevin R. Kosar, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Executive Summary: While Congress has made reforms in the past to square the executive branch’s regulatory actions with representative government, congressional capacity […]
A Fresh Start: How to Address Regulations Suspended during the Coronavirus Crisis
Patrick A. McLaughlin, Senior Research Fellow & Director of Policy Analytics, Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityMatthew D. Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow & Director of the Equal Liberty Initiative, Mercatus Center at […]
Returning the Communications Decency Act to Its Text and Purpose: The NTIA Section 230 Petition
Adam Candeub, Professor of Law & Director of the Intellectual Property, Information, & Communications Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law Executive Summary: Following common law, section 230(c)(1) exempts internet platforms […]
Examining the Term “Waters of The United States” in Its Historical Context
Susan Parker Bodine, Former Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Executive Summary: No statute pursues its objective at all costs. Congress is far more chary when granting authority to administrative […]
Quick Actions to Improve Recruitment, Hiring, and Accountability in the Federal Workforce
Jeffrey Salmon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College Executive Summary: Over the last many years, prestigious commissions have concluded that the Federal civil service needs fundamental reform. However, their proposals […]
Takeaways from the Conference on the Future of White House Regulatory Oversight and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, the George Washington University Law School Executive Summary: On September 13, 2019, the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the […]
Civil Service: Pulling In or Pushing Away
Sally Katzen, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law, and Senior Distinguished Fellow at the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative […]