BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Problem of Delegation X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260608T230011Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48871700082624 DTSTART:20250403T190000Z DTEND:20250403T201500Z DESCRIPTION:Delegation of authority is central to the functioning of bureau cracies and\, indeed\, to political institutions as a whole. It is today a t the center of the contemporary assault on the "administrative state\," a nd its importance is widely misunderstood. In this seminar\, Francis Fukuy ama will discuss how a well-functioning government needs to provide bureau crats with sufficient authority and that this is something that the US has failed to do.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nFrancis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomelli ni Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for Int ernational Studies (FSI)\, and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democra cy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also Director of Sta nford's Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program\, and a pro fessor (by courtesy) of Political Science.\n\nDr. Fukuyama has written wid ely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book\, T he End of History and the Last Man\, has appeared in over twenty foreign e ditions. His most recent book\, Liberalism and Its Discontents\, was publ ished in the spring of 2022.\n\nFrancis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Co rnell University in classics\, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Sci ence. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corp oration and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. Fr om 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University\, and from 2001-201 0 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies\, Johns Hopk ins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioe thics from 2001-2004. \n\nDr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Con necticut College\, Doane College\, Doshisha University (Japan)\, Kansai Un iversity (Japan)\, Aarhus University (Denmark)\, and the Pardee Rand Gradu ate School. He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Inte rnational Peace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corpo ration\, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House\, and the Board of the Vol cker Alliance. He is a fellow of the National Academy for Public Administr ation\, a member of the American Political Science Association\, and of th e Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has th ree children. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Problem of Delegation URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/bureaucratic-autonomy-and-t he-problem-of-delegation CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR