The accumulating procedural changes across federal politics over the past decade — in the executive, in legislative leadership offices, in the practical operation of the regulatory state — have produced a re-centralisation of power that, on most reasonable accounting, has crossed the threshold past which it can be ignored.
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The Quiet Re-Centralisation of American Political Power Deserves Attention
The procedural changes that have re-centralised power in the executive and in legislative leadership offices have accumulated past the point where they can be ignored.
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