Public Service Accountability: A Virtual Forum on July 15

WHAT: The bipartisan Campaign for Common Sense will hold a Zoom forum on Wednesday, July 15, to explore the need to remake public service in America. A tangled bureaucratic framework has made it almost impossible for public employees and their supervisors to make sensible public choices. The inability to hold public employees accountable has corroded public culture and caused broad public distrust. Unaccountability has been the focus of national outrage over the inability to remove police officers with a record of abusive behavior. The discussion will explore the Campaign’s proposed plank titled “Restore Honor and Accountability to Public Service,” which has two core elements: first, public employees must have the authority needed to take responsibility; second, they must be accountable.                                                                                                                                               

WHO: The forum will feature the following panel members:

• Mitch Daniels, President, Purdue University; former Governor of Indiana; former Director of the US Office of Management and Budget

• Daniel DiSalvo, Professor and Chair of Political Science, City College of New York

• Nicole Gelinas, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Columnist, New York Post

• Philip K. Howard (moderator), Chair, Common Good

• Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

• Ronald C. Tyler, Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic, Stanford Law School

• Bill Valdez, former President, Senior Executives Association; former career Senior Executive, US Department of Energy.                                                                                                

WHEN: Wednesday, July 15, 2020      Noon to 1:00 pm (EDT)                                                                  

WHERE: Registration for the forum is required and is available here.                                                                                          

The Campaign for Common Good is a bipartisan initiative to overhaul legacy bureaucracies, so that government can deliver results without stifling human initiative. More information on the Campaign is available at www.commongood.org. To speak with Philip Howard, contact Emma McKinstry at emckinstry@highimpactpartnering.com.                                                 

Common Good (www.commongood.org) is a nonpartisan reform coalition to radically simplify government and restore the ability of officials and citizens alike to use common sense in daily decisions. The Founder and Chair of Common Good is Philip K. Howard, a lawyer and author, most recently, of Try Common Sense (W. W. Norton, 2019).