How Public Unions Undermine Effective Government

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Paul Gigot speaks with author Philip K. Howard about how public unions have created a lack of accountability and an "anti-merit" system in government, and how legal challenges are needed to restore democratic government that works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:27.3	Come on, Paul, as you go with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages here on Potomac Watch.
0:32.7	My guest today is an author, a prolific author, Philip K. Howard.
0:37.6	He's written many books, including The Death of Common Sense.
0:43.3	I think of him as someone who across his career has examined why government so often can't
0:48.7	do its basic tasks competently and what we can do about it.
0:54.2	He has a new book out called Not Accountable, rethinking the constitutionality of public
0:59.8	employee unions.
1:01.5	It's not at all a dull legal tone.
1:03.9	It's an argument for why public unions, the kind that represent government workers, have
1:09.5	become the biggest obstacle, Mr. Howard says, to effective democratic, small D, democratic
1:16.3	self-government.
1:17.3	So, welcome Phil.
1:18.3	Good to have you here.
1:19.6	Thanks for taking the time to come in.
1:21.1	Nice to be with you, Paul.
1:22.7	So you make some really provocative arguments in the book, and here's one I want to get
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