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A pre-mortem on OPM’s HR 2.0 initiative: Imagining failure in order to support success

…(ERP) systems, is hard: technically complex, organizationally disruptive, politically fraught, and culturally destabilizing. OPM’s new HR 2.0 initiative is therefore entering hostile terrain by default. The initiative aspires to rationalize,…

03.02.26 | 26 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Rebuilding Environmental Governance: Understanding the Foundations

…A process, project, or program will move at the speed of trust—no faster and no slower. This refers to trust in institutions, in science, and in process.  Trust is earned…

02.12.26 | 27 min read
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Environment
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FAS Launches New “Center for Regulatory Ingenuity” to Modernize American Governance, Drive Durable Climate Progress

…to the atomic bomb, FAS continues to bring scientific rigor and analysis to address national challenges. More information about FAS work at fas.org. Media Contact: Katie McCaskey, kmccaskey@fas.org, (202) 933-8857…

02.12.26 | 4 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
From Ambition to Action: A Policy Primer

…hold, fossil fuel demand will peak mid-century. If the U.S. continues to hold fast to existing policies until then, we’ll be 30 years behind the rest of the world’s energy…

02.12.26 | 41 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
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Bureaucracy as Social Hope: An Argument for Renewing the Administrative State

…to address these economy-wide consequences, we won’t get there by running the same plays harder and faster. We’ve got to seriously interrogate where the most significant bottlenecks are, who is…

02.12.26 | 29 min read
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