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Robin Hood uses the same approach that made its founders rich. Target charities must meet their goals effectively, cost-efficiently and repeatedly or risk losing funding. Says Saltzman, 39, the lone public-policy wonk in the original bunch (he formerly worked in New York's public schools): "We were pioneers in applying due diligence and measuring outcomes." Now they have to keep the trail open for others to follow...
...achievements from his eight years in the Clinton administration is a long one. And his academic work could one day win him the Nobel Prize. I could have written about either. But if you want to talk not only about Larry Summers the scholar or Larry Summers the policy wonk, but Larry Summers the person, there is little that says as much as the fact that when he had his moment at the top of the nation’s economic policy hierarchy, he put the fight to alleviate global poverty at the top of his agenda...
...electoral defeat, Koizumi signed up as an assistant to an LDP heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. The job involved answering the phone, greeting guests, running errands and even dusting Fukuda's shoes. It was Koizumi's political boot camp. His antiestablishment streak developed under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining of government...
...meetings the President convenes are rarely forums for debate: nobody is expected to contradict the party leader. He recalls challenging Kim on a foreign policy issue. Instead of responding, Kim stalked out of the room. Today, few dare to dispute him. That's partly because Kim, a policy wonk, is usually better informed than anyone else. But it's also because he is convinced he has all the answers, says Sogang University's Sohn: "When old friends have critical comments, they are not invited back...
...Mulgan, 39, heads the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office and is central casting's notion of what the Americans call a wonk: the serious, policy-driven young man who can argue for hours in a windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch...