Burocracia ao Quadrado: Kludgeocracy
In “Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy,” Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles argues that “[w]ith the frontiers of the state roughly fixed, the issues that will dominate American politics going forward will concern the complexity of government, rather than its sheer size.” To that end, he says, “The great agenda of the next four years of the Obama administration, and probably the nation’s next thirty, is coming to grips with kludgeocracy.” A program or policy qualifies as a kludge if the fundamental policy mechanism is substantially more complicated than the problem it is trying to solve dictates. In general, it is a “kludge” because it builds upon, rather than supersedes, the policies that came before it. So in that sense, much of Obamacare, for example, is kludgey. That said, I don’t use the term kludge to only mean policies that are complicated because they are layered upon preexisting policies. But that’s a big part of it.
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