Niskanen Center
For Research On Federal Government Outsourcing
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/14/2022
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant supports a joint project between the Niskanen Center and the Brookings Institution to reevaluate federal government outsourcing from both conservative and liberal perspectives. Niskanen and Brookings will conduct transpartisan research focused on how decades-long outsourcing of federal government functions has diminished U.S. state 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
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niskanencenter.org
Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Niskanen Center is a nonprofit public policy organization dedicated to strengthening liberal democratic governance and promoting widespread prosperity and opportunity. It works to articulate, promote, and defend liberal democracy, drawing on philosophy, history, political science, and political economy.
for the State Capacity Project
The Niskanen Center is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) think tank that works to promote an open society. This grant supports the Center's new State Capacity Initiative. The initiative will bring attention and change to the neglected issues surrounding policy implementation, which too-often lead to a bureaucratic culture that stymies policy goals. (Sub-strategy: Executive Branch).
