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November 19, 2008
NYU Wagner Professor Paul Light Debuts Column in Washington Post on Presidential Transition
Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, and author of the 2008 book A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It, has launched a partnership with the Washington Post during the presidential transition, entitled "The NYU Wagner Presidential Transition Project."
The new partnership will feature periodic web and print columns in The Post by Light, a nationally recognized expert on the federal service and presidential transitions. The first column was published November 5, 2008, spelling out the enormous challenge represented by this year's historic changing of the guard.
"This presidential transition will be the most difficult since Abraham Lincoln," Light wrote in his initial piece. "Although President-elect Barack Obama is not facing a civil war, he will inherit an agenda of staggering uncertainty as the nation teeters on the edge of economic collapse."
In addition to the columns, the Washington Post plans to run Light's analysis and a weekly "countdown" charting the details and speed of the appointment process for all Senate-confirmed positions for at least the first six months of President Obama's administration. The new data, plus similar information on the transitions of 2000, 1992, and 1988, will be posted in searchable form at washingtonpost.com, and the paper's staff columnists will make use of it in their published work.
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