CSPI Podcast

Administrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard Hanania

Feb 27, 2023

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Is the Turning Against the Vaccines a Good Thing?

02:27

Can Government Regulation Be Trusted?

04:33

You Think We've Goed Too Far?

01:42

Introduction

3min

The Basics of Administrative Law

4min

Can Government Regulation Be Trusted?

5min

The EPA, I Think It's a Good Idea

5min

Are You Sure You Can't See That?

4min

FDA and COVID - What's the Biggest Mistake?

3min

FDA Underperformed, What's the Opposite Lesson From It?

3min

Civil Service Reform Is a Hard Case for Me

2min

You Think We've Goed Too Far?

2min

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Is It a Fallacy to Think That Every Organization Has Objective Metrics?

2min

11.

What's the Best Way to Streamline Agency Action?

3min

12.

APA - What's the Worst Thing You Courts Are Doing?

2min

13.

Is the Game Worth the Candle?

3min

14.

The Wake Is Just a New Way of Getting Leverage for an Attack

3min

15.

Is There Room for a Bigger Vision?

5min

16.

Is the Turning Against the Vaccines a Good Thing?

2min

17.

Is There a Calibration Problem in China?

2min

18.

Is the US Doing Better Than Europe?

2min

19.

Is There a Canadian Province That Is Doing This Well?

3min

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What Are the Differences Between States?

2min

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I'm Interested in This Synthesis

3min

Nicholas Bagley is a professor of law at the University of Michigan, former Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and a former attorney in the US Department of Justice. He joins the podcast to talk about his article, “The Procedure Fetish,” in which he calls for liberals to embrace reforms to make federal government agencies less sclerotic and more capable of addressing social problems. Richard presents Bagley with questions surrounding issues such as why we should trust government agencies with more power, the role of cost-benefit analysis, the performance of the FDA during Covid-19, and civil service reform, including President Trump’s executive order that would have made it easier to fire more officials. The two discuss whether there can be a synthesis between the right and left on major issues surrounding government regulation.

Listen to the podcast here, or watch on YouTube.

Links:

* Nicholas Bagley, “The Procedure Fetish”

* Bagley on The Ezra Klein Show

* Bagley on Twitter

* Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk

* Matt Yglesias on Operation Warp Speed and the blowback to it

* Cass Sunstein on the role of OIRA

* Derek Thompson, “The Abundance Agenda”

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