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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Public Policy and Governance</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Power to the People</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/power-to-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gerrymandering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political gridlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the wild and woolly Sixties, “Power to the People” was a slogan often shouted at sit-ins and the other disruptive gatherings that characterized those tumultuous times. We hear similar chants today from those attending “tea party” events. Reporters covering the various factions of so-called tea partiers tell us that there really is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happily Ever After</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/happily-ever-after/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/happily-ever-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filibuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I babysat my younger grandchildren, we watched one of those age-appropriate Hollywood fairy tales where the good guy defeats the bad guy and then the story ends because—it is understood by all, even five-year olds—that everyone will now live happily ever after.  Many Americans apply that simple fantasy to politics: once we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those &#8220;Hidden&#8221; Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/those-hidden-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/those-hidden-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequent accusations leveled against government regulatory activity is that such regulation constitutes a &#8220;hidden tax&#8221; and that regulation is for that reason illegitimate. Dispatches from the Culture Wars has the best explanation of the fallacy of that argument that I&#8217;ve seen.]]></description>
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		<title>Who Can We Trust?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/who-can-we-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/who-can-we-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Indianapolis Star has been advocating rather forcefully for laws to tighten restrictions on the lobbyists who exercise increasing power at the Statehouse. The Star argues that such restrictions are necessary if we are to restore a modicum of trust in our legislative body.  They’re right.  My most recent book—“Distrust, American Style”—was an inquiry into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Begging to Differ</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/begging-to-differ/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/begging-to-differ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entreprenuerial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks is one of the few remaining conservative columnists whose commentary is always rational. I may agree or disagree with the substance of any given column, but Brooks is a remnant of the days when liberals and conservatives disagreed about aspects of a shared reality&#8211;unlike today, when they appear to inhabit different solar systems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Faith-Based Contractors</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-problem-with-faith-based-contractors/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-problem-with-faith-based-contractors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith-based contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious discrimination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There really is no constitutional problem with government contracting with religious organizations for purely secular services. The state can purchase medical care or babysitting or welfare services from any organization, religious or secular, having the capacity to deliver those services in a constitutionally appropriate way&#8211;i.e., without proselytizing vulnerable populations, etc. A problem that is rarely discussed, however, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-economics-of-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-economics-of-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting so I hate to turn on the television, unless I&#8217;m watching something I have TIVO&#8217;d, and can zip through the commercials. On live TV, there is an ad that runs every few minutes declaring that healthcare reform will add to the national deficit and raise taxes. The ad ends by darkly warning that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Water, Vibrant City</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/10/clean-water-vibrant-city/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/10/clean-water-vibrant-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I often read the Urbanophile&#8217;s blog; he has a good grasp of urban issues, and generally includes a wealth of data and perceptive commentary. In this post, he tells us about an ambitions program that&#8211;if successful&#8211;will yield benefits to the environment AND to city life. Worth pondering.]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Politics</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/playing-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/playing-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter ID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Indiana Court of Appeals struck down the state’s controversial “Voter ID” law.  For those of you who somehow missed the intensely political arguments about the motives for and effects of that measure—the most restrictive in the nation—let me briefly recap its somewhat checkered history.  The measure was originally championed by Secretary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Morphing Media</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/our-morphing-media/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/our-morphing-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morphing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing (and worrying) a lot about the transition of the media, and the effect of the current landscape on public discourse and policy. As I told a friend, it&#8217;s one thing to disagree about something that we both see. We can both look at a photo, or a piece of art, or a draft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tod Gitlin Sums It Up</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/tod-gitlin-sums-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/tod-gitlin-sums-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post about Obama&#8217;s speech this morning, but Tod Gitlin has already said it, and said it best. He sounded like a winner. Like all great preachers, he started methodically and built to crescendos. The Republican responder, Charles Boustany of Louisiana, sounded like a whiner, crying, Deficit, deficit, and government-run, government-run, and [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/816/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/816/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Balkinization, Frank Pasquale has an interesting analysis of the philosophical roots of opposition to healthcare reform.http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/09/risk-health-care-and-red-america.html It is worth reading in its entirety, but the last paragraph does sum up the situation as it appears right now: The really appealing goal of reform&#8211;a strong public option that would be part of an exchange open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hissy Fits</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/hissy-fits/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/09/hissy-fits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Town Halls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conflict is a given in democratic systems. Citizens are expected—nay, encouraged&#8211;to bring their different value systems, ideas and political preferences into the public square, where we have not only the right but the duty to make our arguments as forcefully and persuasively as we can. Only after we’ve aired the relevant pros and cons in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Odds</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/08/long-odds/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/08/long-odds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants to reform our dysfunctional health system.  America doesn’t have a socialized system, like England, where doctors work for the government. We don’t have a single-payer system, like several European countries where medical care isn’t socialized, but health insurance is. And for better or worse, neither Congress nor the President proposes emulating either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Depends</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/07/it-depends/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/07/it-depends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an interesting time to teach public policy. As I tell my students, I am much less concerned about their eventual policy preferences than I am with the analytical processes through which they form those preferences. I figure I’ve done my job if they use two phrases more frequently than they did before taking my [...]]]></description>
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