TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis, Michael 
TI  - The fifth risk: undoing democracy
SN  - 9780241373545
U1  - 320.973090512 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London 
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Administrative agencies - United States - Management
KW  - Government executives - United States
KW  - Public administration - United States
KW  - Political science - Political ideologies - Democracy
KW  - Civil service - United States
N1  - Table of contents:

Prologue: Lost in transition
Tail risk
People risk
All the President's data
N2  - "The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. 
Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. Commerce may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.

Lewis finds the linchpins of the system-those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. And he asks them what keeps them up at night.


https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-fifth-risk-9780241373545
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