Lachezar (Lucky) Anguelov
anguelov.bsky.social
Lachezar (Lucky) Anguelov
@anguelov.bsky.social
Public administration faculty at The Evergreen State College, passionate about government contracting, public procurement, management, and local government decision making.
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New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises:
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Introduction to Working with Data: R Version
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September 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Excellent research on the role of values for decision making!
August 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is alarming and it should terrify all who care about democracy.
They are trying to establish a parallel state controlled by select privateers. Public goods are extremely ripe for rent extraction when you disincentivize participation in the civil service labor market. Then, you needn't politicize the civil service. You simply leverage patronage through contracts.
Senate strips most retirement cuts from reconciliation, but anti-civil service provisions remain
Under language released by a Senate panel Thursday night, new federal workers who decline to serve as at-will employees will pay nearly 15% of their paycheck toward their pension benefit.
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June 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Congrats @anadimand.bsky.social well deserved recognition of your scholarship’s impact and trajectory! Way to go my friend!
🚨 Award Alert! 🚨
The IJPA Emerging Scholar Award goes to
@anadimand.bsky.social ! 🏆
Check out her latest article on #IJPA:
🟢 Collaborative Governance & Sustainability
📖 Read here (Open Access): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Dear colleagues teaching procurement in public policy or administration, here's a small favor to ask. I'd love to see your syllabus to do a better literature review on my coauthored paper on State AI Procurement Contracts. Please reply to this thread or email me: jkim638@jhu.edu
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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How can public procurement become a driver of innovation and societal impact? Our latest study (together with
Andrea Patrucco, Tommaso Agasisti, Luca Tangi, Michele Benedetti, and Marco Gaeta) explores how Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI)
March 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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As @brunjes.bsky.social points out, the first Trump admin prioritized "efficiency" in contracting by consolidating (bundling) smaller contracts into larger ones. IOW, big companies won more contracts. The subset of elite, entrenched government contractors benefited most. 1/2
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Tomorrow (Feb 5) at 10 am ET, I'll be testifying before the US House Oversight and Reform Committee on "Rightsizing the Federal Government."

For those interested, my written testimony can be found below.
House Testimony 2_5_25.pdf
drive.google.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I'm writing a paper (w/t Aniket Kesari at Fordham Law School) on state-level gov AI procurements focusing on how contract languages are crafted and negotiated with vendors. If you have experience in this space (either as a researcher or practitioner), we'd love to talk with you!
January 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Happy New Years! Here is to a year of new possibilities. The behavioral budgeting special issue is now open for your submissions.
January 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Cambridge Element in Public Policy volume now out & Open Access

"Public Contracting for Social Outcomes" by Clare Fitzgerald & Ruairi Macdonald

- bit.ly/3ZF0eAt
Public Contracting for Social Outcomes
Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Public Contracting for Social Outcomes
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December 16, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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My fellow Bush School professor, Eric Lewis, is on this paper too. They do some cool stuff with oil and gas drilling contracts. Check it out!
December 8, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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December 6, 2024 at 9:01 PM