From Oversight to Insight: Federal Agencies as Learning Leaders in the Information Age

Federal agencies that depend on other levels of government to accomplish their objectives need to play a much stronger role studying experiments in state and local laboratories of democracy or causing such study to occur and then sharing the findings. Especially in the information age, federal agencies that depend on states and localities to accomplish their objectives need to assume both a learning role and a leadership role. They need to be learning leaders.

Read the full chapter, printed in Conlan and Posner (2008) Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century here.