James Anderson
@jimnosredna.bsky.social
Governance, World Bank. Older stuff on the other platform. Institutions, governance, corruption, anticorruption, human rights, #Mongolia, #Vietnam, East Asia, Pacific
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James Anderson
@jimnosredna.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others
Happy Groundhog Day Saint Patrick’s Day Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet Nam—Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet. The author is known for his Viet Nam studies, and this one did not disappoint. I marvel at the patience and persistence he had to collect the data on forms and types of protests, large and small, and then cut through assumptions and accepted wisdom to show that the world is more interesting and complex.
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Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
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“End-run”
“Pushing limits”
“Unusual”
“Redefining”
“Challenging norms”
“Boldly upending”
Sounds heroic, muscular.
Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.
“Pushing limits”
“Unusual”
“Redefining”
“Challenging norms”
“Boldly upending”
Sounds heroic, muscular.
Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power
The administration is setting up clash with Capitol Hill over its use of the "pocket rescission."
www.politico.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“End-run”
“Pushing limits”
“Unusual”
“Redefining”
“Challenging norms”
“Boldly upending”
Sounds heroic, muscular.
Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.
“Pushing limits”
“Unusual”
“Redefining”
“Challenging norms”
“Boldly upending”
Sounds heroic, muscular.
Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.
CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance is the World Bank's new global facility supporting civil society organizations (CSOs), social innovators, and social economy actors. ⬇️
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August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance is the World Bank's new global facility supporting civil society organizations (CSOs), social innovators, and social economy actors. ⬇️
blogs.worldbank.org/en/governanc...
blogs.worldbank.org/en/governanc...
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“Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works,” says @garrisonhayes.bsky.social in his video on the conspiracy theories swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods.
The irony? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory when the truth is simple: Texas floods often.
The irony? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory when the truth is simple: Texas floods often.
July 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works,” says @garrisonhayes.bsky.social in his video on the conspiracy theories swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods.
The irony? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory when the truth is simple: Texas floods often.
The irony? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory when the truth is simple: Texas floods often.
These USAID Awards Were Saving Lives. Reverse the Cuts or Reissue Them. url:https://www.cgdev.org/blog/these-usaid-awards-were-saving-lives-reverse-cuts-or-reissue-them
July 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
These USAID Awards Were Saving Lives. Reverse the Cuts or Reissue Them. url:https://www.cgdev.org/blog/these-usaid-awards-were-saving-lives-reverse-cuts-or-reissue-them
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📎 My blog piece about *corruption in healthcare* is out now on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social, check it out below ⬇️
In it I discuss my research on issues around measurement (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) and social norms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
In it I discuss my research on issues around measurement (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) and social norms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
June 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
📎 My blog piece about *corruption in healthcare* is out now on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social, check it out below ⬇️
In it I discuss my research on issues around measurement (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) and social norms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
In it I discuss my research on issues around measurement (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) and social norms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others
Happy Groundhog Day Saint Patrick’s Day Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet Nam—Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet. The author is known for his Viet Nam studies, and this one did not disappoint. I marvel at the patience and persistence he had to collect the data on forms and types of protests, large and small, and then cut through assumptions and accepted wisdom to show that the world is more interesting and complex.
jimnosredna.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
Happy Summer Solstice! Taking advantage of the daylight to finally finish writing up the list for 2024. (I’ve been busy.) I thoroughly enjoyed Speaking Out in Viet …
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They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
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Which data do economists use to study corruption? We examined 339 published articles from 2022 to provide a systematic answer.
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
April 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Which data do economists use to study corruption? We examined 339 published articles from 2022 to provide a systematic answer.
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
Which data do economists use to study corruption? We examined 339 published articles from 2022 to provide a systematic answer.
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
April 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Which data do economists use to study corruption? We examined 339 published articles from 2022 to provide a systematic answer.
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
jamieraskin.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
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I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’
The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.
wapo.st
February 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
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Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
What is "people-centered justice"?
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blogs.worldbank.org/en/governanc...
February 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What is "people-centered justice"?
blogs.worldbank.org/en/governanc...
blogs.worldbank.org/en/governanc...
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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Martin Wolf: "A world with more prosperous, healthier and more stable countries is a better one to live in, not just morally, but practically. The main instruments for achieving these ends remain multilateral institutions." www.ft.com/content/3e47...
The case for persisting with foreign aid
Until now, the US has been a strikingly benign and successful hegemon
www.ft.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Martin Wolf: "A world with more prosperous, healthier and more stable countries is a better one to live in, not just morally, but practically. The main instruments for achieving these ends remain multilateral institutions." www.ft.com/content/3e47...
Happening #now at the World Bank.
Public Institutions for Development Conference: Enabling the Private Sector
#Institutions4Development
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Public Institutions for Development Conference: Enabling the Private Sector
#Institutions4Development
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
World Bank Public Institutions for Development Conference
Join us for the World Bank Conference on Public Institutions for Development on Enabling the Private Sector on Jan 30-31, 2025 in Washington, DC!
www.worldbank.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happening #now at the World Bank.
Public Institutions for Development Conference: Enabling the Private Sector
#Institutions4Development
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Public Institutions for Development Conference: Enabling the Private Sector
#Institutions4Development
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
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Interesting to read this one from 12 years ago!
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
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Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Interesting to read this one from 12 years ago!
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
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RFK Jr. Wants to Rethink the Measles Vaccine. Here’s What the Science Shows.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
RFK Jr. Wants to Rethink the Measles Vaccine. Here’s What the Science Shows.
MMR vaccines are safe and effective, but fewer children are getting them.
www.wsj.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
RFK Jr. Wants to Rethink the Measles Vaccine. Here’s What the Science Shows.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Interesting to read this one from 12 years ago!
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Interesting to read this one from 12 years ago!
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
Tet wish for Vietnam: shed the corruption skin in the Year of the Snake!
blogs.worldbank.org/en/eastasiap...
For Robert Burns Day…
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Robert Burns on corruption, money, newspapers, and death
“An’ may ye rax Corruption’s neck, And gie her for dissection!” and other lines from the poet Robert Burns.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
For Robert Burns Day…
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How far have countries in Africa progressed in the adoption of digital tools for better governance?
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January 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How far have countries in Africa progressed in the adoption of digital tools for better governance?
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