Howard, Philip K.
Fixing the Civil Service
by PHILIP K. HOWARD
Once a cure for good government, the U.S. civil service system is now a cancer on the federal bureaucracy that is choking out efficiency and needs to be reformed.
How Congress Can Fix Broken Government
by PHILIP K. HOWARD
American government today is run by dead people — past members of Congress who wrote all these statutes, and bureaucrats long gone who wrote the millions of words of regulations. Government is broken not mainly because past lawmakers were stupid, but because legislative programs almost never work out as planned.