Rent-seeking describes profit-seeking through the manipulation of the regulatory or legal apparatus rather than by competing with others in the marketplace. Cronyism is a common form of rent-seeking, ...

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, recently criticized the Trump administration’s effort to shut down the Education Department, saying it “sends a message that the ...

President-elect Trump is vowing to restructure federal agencies and slash bureaucracy as part of a new entity led by billionaire executive Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur and former presidential ...

Federal payroll costs ballooned from $217 billion during fiscal 2020 to $270 billion by the end of fiscal 2024, a new report published by Open The Books has found. For the federal government, fiscal ...

What is much needed today is the reignition of a critique of bureaucracy from a direct democratic perspective. Unfortunately, such criticism has gone in decline for decades. The last mass frontal ...

The Global Program for Improving Public Administration Performance is the World Bank Group's set of analytical and operational engagements, and global partnerships, on public administration reform.