Philip Wallach
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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We can now quantify Trump’s sabotage of the GOP’s House dreams
The numbers from competitive districts tell a harsh story about the ex-president's influence. → Read More
Imbalanced by checks
Is democracy about politics or policy? Or, by some felicitous logic, do they end up coinciding? “Popularism” is the idea, currently urged by some on the center-left, that doing what the electorate says it wants is a winning electoral strategy and, at the same time, a perfectly good way of making sound policy in service of the … → Read More
Americans would have a patriotic duty to ignore a debt ceiling crisis
If it's not raised and we bump up against it, no one should treat it as a crisis. → Read More
Regulatory policy in the Trump administration
Philip Wallach, senior fellow in Governance Studies, breaks down the regulatory process and considers the shape of regulation in Trump’s administration. Also in this episode, an excerpt from an eve… → Read More
Prospects for partisan realignment: Lessons from the demise of the Whigs
Introduction For all the understandable nostalgia we now feel for the simpler political times of, say, 2014, there is no avoiding it: American politics is as thrilling today as it has been in gener… → Read More
3 reasons Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton and win the presidency
It's not a done deal. Not hardly. → Read More
The administrative state faces a legitimacy crisis: so fix Congress!?
In a new Center for Effective Public Management paper, “The administrative state’s legitimacy crisis,” Philip Wallach argues that Americans’ anxieties about our sprawling, largely impenetrable bureaucracy pose a major challenge to the effective working of our government. → Read More
The administrative state’s legitimacy crisis
In this paper, Philip Wallach explores the origins and implications of the administrative state's legitimacy crisis and offers a possible path toward overcoming it. He argues that both major camps fighting over the role of the administrative state (generally referred to as bureaucracy) fail to provide a viable means of securing effective and legitimate government. → Read More
Can the Fed stay independent in a polarized era?
An important new paper evaluates the Congress and the Fed in a polarized era, providing analysis backed up by an impressive new dataset encompassing 879 bills introduced by 333 lawmakers in the House and Senate between 1947 and 2014. → Read More
Looking back from 2020: Three Trump Presidencies
With Donald Trump’s historic Super Tuesday wins now in the books, it is getting very hard to see how anyone will stop him from winning the Republican nomination—indeed, if he were a normal candidate who performed similarly, we would see him as the presumptive nominee. So now it is time to start thinking seriously about what a Trump presidency would mean. In this post, Philip Wallach outlines… → Read More
Tuesday’s other big news: Supreme Court stays Obama's Clean Power Plan
While the country watched early returns from New Hampshire, the Supreme Court put a halt to the Obama administration's plans to regulate greenhouse gases. Philip Wallach weighs in why the recent court action could spell doom for the president's climate change agenda as his term expires. → Read More
Offseason moves in the debt ceiling blame game
A recent report from the Chairmen of the House Financial Services and its Oversight subcommittee released a report accusing the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of engaging in contingency planning for a hypothetical debt ceiling catastrophe. In this post, Philip Wallach lays out the political and practical implications of this report. → Read More
If Republicans nominate Trump, can an independent win the presidency?
Many think time to seriously consider the possibility of Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination. In this post, Philip Wallach asks, "what happens then?" Wallach argues the possibility of a viable third-party candidate, or even a shakeup of the two parties is not totally out of the question. → Read More
Domestic politics and the Paris climate change talks
In this post, Philip Wallach discusses the relationship between domestic politics in the United States and the ongoing climate change talks in Paris. → Read More
What Ohio's rejection of marijuana legalization tells us about direct democracy
Ohio’s Issue 3, which would have made the bellwether state just the fifth in the country to provide a legal market for marijuana, was decisively rejected by voters on Tuesday by an almost 2-1 margin. In this post, Phil Wallach explores the implications of the outcome on direct democracy. → Read More
A trillion dollar platinum coin; Why not 100 trillion!?
Philip Wallach's paper last week on “Minimizing debt ceiling crises” inspired a lengthy, dyspeptic reply from Joe Firestone, a noted champion of the platinum coin plan to make the debt ceiling irrelevant. In this post Wallach responds to this suggestion. → Read More
The right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations
Once again, Congress is embroiled in negotiations over the debt ceiling. Unlike last time, however, this debate is now crossed with a chaotic leadership scramble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, making the safe outcome seem far less certain. In this post, Philip Wallach outlines lessons from a new white paper on the right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations. → Read More
The right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations
Once again, Congress is embroiled in negotiations over the debt ceiling. Unlike last time, however, this debate is now crossed with a chaotic leadership scramble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, making the safe outcome seem far less certain. In this post, Philip Wallach outlines lessons from a new white paper on the right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations. → Read More
The right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations
Once again, Congress is embroiled in negotiations over the debt ceiling. Unlike last time, however, this debate is now crossed with a chaotic leadership scramble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, making the safe outcome seem far less certain. In this post, Philip Wallach outlines lessons from a new white paper on the right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations. → Read More
The right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations
Once again, Congress is embroiled in negotiations over the debt ceiling. Unlike last time, however, this debate is now crossed with a chaotic leadership scramble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, making the safe outcome seem far less certain. In this post, Philip Wallach outlines lessons from a new white paper on the right way to handle debt ceiling confrontations. → Read More