WAGNER’S PAUL LIGHT DELIVERS 2008 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LECTURE

Paul C. Light, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, recently delivered the 2008 Library of Congress Lecture. The Oct. 20 event was organized by the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress, housed at Wagner, and Light’s remarks were drawn in part from his new book, A Government Ill-Executed. Light’s new column on the presidential transition appears on the Web site of The Washington Post.
    “Big problems demand big answers,” he said in the address. “It is time, therefore, to think about how to build consensus on a package of reforms that would offer trade-offs among the three reform philosophies that hold hope for progress—scientific management toward pay for performance, liberation management toward a flattening of the hierarchy, and a watchful eye toward greater public awareness of the true size of government.”
    To read the speech, go to www. nyu.edu/brademas