Sabeel Rahman on Democracy and Administration
On this episode of Free Range Podcast, host Mike Livermore is joined by Sabeel Rahman, a professor at Cornell Law School with substantial public policy experience, including as president of the think tank Demos and as senior counselor and then later as the acting Administrator in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden administration. Rahman is also the author of the book “Democracy Against Domination” amongst other works.
Episode is an appropriate teaching tool for but not limited to the following topics & courses: government, environmental policy, environmental politics
Discussion Questions
- What distinction is drawn between inequality or distributive justice and then power and domination?
- What kind of expertise is required to set up good participatory community engagement?
- What is the role of civil service in a robust democracy?
Additional Readings
- “Democracy Against Domination”
- Building the Administrative State We Need, by K. Sabeel Rahman
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