Making Government Work Again: Hannah Garden-Monheit on Practical Lessons for Future Administrations

In a moment when Americans expect their government to act decisively—and too often see only gridlock or procedural drag—a new Roosevelt Institute report offers a rare thing: an insider’s manual for how to make government work again. Building a More Effective, Responsive Government distills interviews with more than 45 former senior officials into a clear-eyed blueprint for rebuilding public capacity.

Its lead author, Hannah Garden-Monheit, is a seasoned policymaker who treats the subject not as an abstract institutional problem but as a democratic one. If the government can’t deliver quickly and visibly for ordinary people, its legitimacy erodes.

Learn more about the report in Fireside Stacks’s inaugural video conversation, featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, below.

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