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Bernardo Zacka is a research fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford and a junior research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Starting in fall 2018, he will be assistant professor of political science at MIT.
Following Trump's election, bureaucracy has gone from being a thorn in the side of democracy to being its saving grace. But bureaucrats are also frontline workers who grapple independently with complex questions of democracy.
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