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My guest is author Dr. Saqib Qureshi on his new book The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Efficient, Representative, and Accountable
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My guest is author Dr. Saqib Qureshi who has peened a must read book titled The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Efficient, Representative, and Accountable
Dr. Qureshi digs into the data to show that a large number of elected representatives are mostly rich, male, and political lifers, and as such frequently out of touch with a changing society and its demographics. Dr. Qureshi proposes that rather than allowing bureaucrats protected employment for life, some 2% of all underachieving government employees should be regularly removed from their jobs. Some might find this unfair, but Dr. Qureshi points out this is below the annual turnover of a private sector company. Conversely, he argues that we should meaningfully reward the top 5 percent of public sector employees.
This is something that he suggests can be done if employees are given effective evaluations each quarter, providing the necessary comparative data.
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Dr. Qureshi digs into the data to show that a large number of elected representatives are mostly rich, male, and political lifers, and as such frequently out of touch with a changing society and its demographics. Dr. Qureshi proposes that rather than allowing bureaucrats protected employment for life, some 2% of all underachieving government employees should be regularly removed from their jobs. Some might find this unfair, but Dr. Qureshi points out this is below the annual turnover of a private sector company. Conversely, he argues that we should meaningfully reward the top 5 percent of public sector employees.
This is something that he suggests can be done if employees are given effective evaluations each quarter, providing the necessary comparative data.
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