Jennifer Pahlka is the former deputy chief technology officer of the United States and the founder of Code for America, a nonprofit that believes government can work for people in the digital age. Pahlka is the winner of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, among others, and has been selected by Wired magazine as one of the people who have most shaped technology and society in the past twenty-five years.
Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2023
Named one of Ezra Klein's "Books That Explain Where We Are in
2023," The New York Times "An indispensable new book...Recoding
America isn't just about tech. It's about the American
administrative state, and it's a call for paring back the rigid
rules that make it so hard to govern, and for rebuilding
government's ability to do its job effectively."
--The Atlantic "No one should be allowed to hold public office
without reading this book."
--Adam Grant, author of Think Again "If you've ever wondered how
government can get better, you'll love Pahlka's fresh take on the
solutions to our bureaucratic dysfunction. Everyone can learn
something from this wonderful book: How to strengthen democracies,
how to lead with more wisdom, how to make government work for all
of us. The future of our society--and even our planet--depends on
our ability to recode the American government."
--Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster
Better "A remarkably compelling, inspiring, and entertaining read
about government technology...A valuable and enlightening
book."
--Science "Every American who cares about our democracy should read
this book. We all know government doesn't work the way it should,
but we chalk it up to bureaucratic dysfunction. Taking us behind
the scenes in the best and the worst of our bureaucracies, Pahlka
lays bare not only what's wrong, but what to do about it. An
engaging and compelling read on a problem we can't afford to
ignore."
--Eric Schmidt, former Chairman of Alphabet "Democracy depends on
trust, and trust depends on the actual delivery of government
services, delivery that fails far too often. Recoding America
should be on the reading list of every person who wants to make a
difference in the world, and every public servant who wants to make
government work."
--Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America "Recoding America will
rattle some cages, but Pahlka's engaging and vivid accounts of
policy rhetoric crashing onto the rocks of implementation will
convince you those cages need a little rattling. A compelling
argument to focus on the underappreciated art of delivery in our
digital era."
--Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft "Jen Pahlka's insight and
experience make her the perfect author of this manifesto on how and
why we must reset the relationships between people, policy,
bureaucracy, and technology. Her call to action to understand
people first, and to find ways to improve policy and systems,
without always piling on more, should be in the front of the minds
of every policymaker and project manager, working in the public
sector."
--Garlin Gilchrist, Lt. Governor of Michigan "Government policy
makers get promoted by crafting Big Ideas. But what American
citizens need from their leaders today is smarter delivery of
policies--and in particular, better digital delivery. Jen Pahlka,
America's former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer and a Silicon
Valley insider, chronicles her years spent working to create a
stronger, better, faster technology for the public sector, and what
it taught her about how government works, when it doesn't, and how
our leaders could hack their way to a better, more efficient, and
more trustworthy democracy."
--Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers, Homecoming
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