Howard: Civil Service Reform Act Made Accountability Impossible
Philip Howard · Why It's Legally Impossible To Build In America · Joe Lonsdale · Dec 11, 2025 · at 3:09
Legal reformer Philip Howard discusses the origins of modern bureaucracy with Joe Lonsdale, critiquing civil service legislation passed in the late 1970s.
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“The Civil Service Reform Act in 1978, which made it impossible to hold anybody accountable, you know, was at the end of the seventies”
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