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Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation

Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Daniel Carpenter is one of the world's leading experts on regulation and the foremost expert on the US Food and Drug Administration. A professor of Government at Harvard University, he's conducted extensive research on regulation and government organizations, as well as on the development of political institutions in the United States. His latest book Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, details the crucial role petitions played in expanding the franchise and shaping modern America.

Daniel joined Tyler to discuss how to reform the hiring and firing practices for public employees, what the history of the postal service can teach us about internet regulation, the problem with the term "institutional capture", what the FDA got right and wrong regarding COVID-19 vaccines, how nationalism is affecting vaccine rollout, why vaccinating the young is crucial for herd immunity, the drawbacks of a "Good Housekeeping" model of the FDA, how black box drug labels sometimes change behavior for the worse, the institutional variables of foreign drug trials and manufacturing, the pivotal role petitions played during the 19th century women's rights movement, the French Canadian petition that changed history, why political scientists should study Native Americans, the benefits of fly fishing, and more.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to ConversationsWithT Tyler.

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Today I am here with Daniel Carpenter.

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He is one of the world's leading experts on regulation.

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He is perhaps the leading academic expert on the FDA.

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He has a new book coming out, this may, called Democracy by Petition, Popular Politics

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and Transformation, 1790-1870, and he is in the Department of Government at Harvard

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University.

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Daniel, welcome.

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Thanks for having me, Tyler.

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Now we will get to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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But first let me ask about a few other topics.

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The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, right?

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The goal was to replace hires by patronage with hires by merit.

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How should we be changing that act today?

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Oh, good question.

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I think I would begin by saying that I'm not sure we need examinations, which by the way

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still exist in many areas of the civil service that we should have perhaps minimum criteria,

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