Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better - Hardcover

by Jennifer Pahlka (Author)Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2023 Named one of Ezra Klein's "Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023", The New York Times A bold call to reexamine how our government operates--and sometimes fails to--from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America "The book I wish every policymaker would read." - Ezra Klein, The New York Times “No one should be allowed to hold public office without reading this book.” - Adam Grant, author of Think Again “An indispensable new book...Recoding America isn’t just about tech. It’s about the American administrative state, and it’s a call for paring back the rigid rules that make it so hard to govern, and for rebuilding government’s ability to do its job effectively." - The Atlantic “Every American who cares about our democracy should read this book. We all know government doesn’t work the way it should, but we chalk it up to bureaucratic dysfunction. Taking us be