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Federalism 2.0

Podcasts Sep 11, 2018 Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca

Donald Trump’s brand of partisan politics has pushed many Americans to lose faith in the federal government, especially as collective challenges like climate change are ignored by the White House. But for Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca, Trump’s dangerous populism has an effective antidote: the Tenth Amendment.

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Laura Tyson

Writing for PS since 2012
121 Commentaries

Laura Tyson, a former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Board of Advisers at Angeleno Group.

Lenny Mendonca

Writing for PS since 2014
52 Commentaries

Lenny Mendonca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is a former chief economic and business adviser to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

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Paul Daley Sep 14, 2018

The states have probably failed our democracy most crucially by ceding control of the electoral process to political parties. That has opened the door to factionalism and partisanship. California alone has kept that factionalism and partisanship under control by adopting open primaries which allow every voter to participate at every stage in the electoral process. Other states should follow California's example.
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Jose Antonio Vanderhorst Silverio Sep 12, 2018

After listening to the episode, I searched I found the article "The Progressive Resurgence of Federalism" by LAURA TYSON & LENNY MENDONCA. Then I added the following comment:

Very interesting and much needed subnational government approach under The Wealth of Nations paradigm of independent central governments. It asks if "... are we doomed to the inevitable results of more federal gridlock?” The unconventional answer might be that we need to leap to an approach under The Wealth of Globalization paradigm of interdependent distributed governments, where, for example, massive immigration, cybersecurity, climate change, and soaring inequality, can only be addressed by a global government.

I suggest that California has all it needs to become the first place of the much needed constitutional distributed innovation for national minimalists governments and one global minimalists government. All we need is one leader, the way Piero Formica introduced it in his book “The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Pathfinders and Path Creators.” All we need is the Path Creator of the Systemic Civilization of interdependent governments, whose systems architecture can be designed and whose main structural elements have emerged, different from the American revolution whose architecture emerged organically without a path creator. All other governments will be led by Path Finders.

Please consider the thought experiments that are placed in the URL.
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Ajit de Silva Sep 11, 2018

I have listened to about half but I would like to make a comment. I didn't realize that we owe so much of our world class higher education to the states. I did economic research that took me up to Lansing and Michigan State. Reserach was easy there because their libraries were equiped, at the time, with library science types. My old employer offered classes through this governor's but I didn't know its provenance. It would seem, the "greatness" I attribute to our world class instituions, misses that we can and have used education for more prosaic needs. I love the ivory tower but education benefits families and communites. These are resources our society will use to prepare for the future.
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