If there’s one thing that unites the populist campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, it’s a desire to put the “public” back into “public policy.” Many Americans apparently feel that policy is something done to them, rather than with them. They disdain the unknown “experts” in distant Washington, D.C., who devise everything from trade deals to overtime rules.
As the dean of a graduate school in public policy, I’ve been thinking: Are programs like mine partly responsible for this state of affairs? How should graduates in the Class of 2016 react as they enter a world increasingly skeptical of their expertise?
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