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The Dangerous Decline of Expertise in Federal Government

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The Dangerous Decline of Expertise in Federal Government

Professor Jane Campbell Moriarty | Duquesne University

March 7, 2025 01:27:27 pm

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone — Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (1970) Decades of my professional life have been devoted to the topic of expertise and experts — their qualifications, basis of knowledge, standards by which we evaluate them in court, and their proper [...]

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