Brookings
For Research On Federal Government Outsourcing
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/20/2022
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant supports a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Niskanen Center to reevaluate federal government outsourcing from both conservative and liberal perspectives. Brookings and Niskanen will conduct transpartisan research focused on how decades-long outsourcing of federal government functions has diminished U.S. government capacity and damaged democratic governance. Previous analyses of government failures across both Republican and Democratic administrations have paid insufficient attention to how the growing gap between federal workforce and workload since 1960 has been made up largely by outside contractors, resulting in critical inadequacies in government staffing and state capacity. This study will examine problems and consequences of outsourcing, and propose practical remedies, by addressing fundamental research questions that would benefit most from even-handed approaches by both left and right.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.brookings.edu
Address
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
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for support of a research program on macroeconomics and gender equality
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for the governance program’s work on the future of Senate
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for case study on IRS Funding, State Capacity, and Democracy
The Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program and its scholars are dedicated to strengthening democracy and improving its institutions through research and expert analysis to inform public debate and provide solutions for the most critical governance challenges. This grant supports the analysis of technical reforms in federal tax administration and their implications for American democracy. (Substrategy: Executive Branch)
