On February 6, 2020, the Gray Center hosted a public policy conference on “Bureaucracy and Presidential Administration: Expertise and Accountability in Constitutional Government.” The conference was inspired in part by James Q. Wilson’s book, Bureaucracy, and Elena Kagan’s article, “Presidential Administration.” The panel sessions centered around new papers the Gray Center helped to incubate on the history of civil service; on presidential power; on bureaucracy; and on several other important questions of expertise and accountability. Keynote remarks on “The Need for Professionalism” were given by Jonathan Rauch, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

In his presentation, Mr. Rauch discussed professionalism as a lost virtue in modern life and modern administration. The video is available at https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/events/bureaucracy-and-presidential-administration/.

Featuring Jonathan Rauch and Adam White

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