The Crashys are Bureaucrash's very own awards series. I'm the Crashys Czar so I will post the winners in those three categories weekly and HQ will post a Crasher and Cell of the Month. At the end of the year, we'll narrow the fields down to the final nominees in each category. Then crashers can vote for the annual winners.
If you'd like to explicitely nominate anyone for the weekly honors, please do so as a reply to that week's winner announcement. Or, just keep posting all of the news and opinions that make this site great. I'll be scouring Bureaucrash all week for deserving winners. Here is the schedule:
Monday: Bureaucrat of the Week Tuesday: Bureaucracy of the Week Wednesday: Statist of the Week Thursday: Honorary Crasher of the Week
Plus we'll be announcing the Crasher & Cell of the month at the end of the month!
Crasher RLJ9:
You've been doing a great job so keep up the good work. With government as big as it is, the hard part will be narrowing it down every week.
I'd also like to add that this is in it's infancy so if any of you have ideas on the crashys please post a comment here. ------------------------- JA$ON Crasher-In-Chief
Does anyone have ideas for other categories? I think there may be a statist of the week category after reading this article. ------------------------- JA$ON Crasher-In-Chief
How about an Aider and Abettor of the week?
People or groups that either keep the machinery of bureaucracy going or smuggly go about doing the bidding of the bureaucrats.
Hey primenumbergirl - I think that's exactly what a statist is. So who don't we use your language in the description of this category? ------------------------- JA$ON Crasher-In-Chief
So who don't we use your language in the description of this category?
Cool.
We may need to have it be a biweekly award though, since there are soooooo many deserving recipients. I don't even know where to start.
I'll throw out Francis Fukuyama just to get the ball rolling. He's an economist that basically claims that since the world has determined that liberal democracy is the best of all possible worlds, that no more "history" will occur. He has served on the President's Council for Bioethics. His latest book is State-Building: Governance and Order in the 21st Century. His publisher writes:
Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know—and more often don’t know--about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that will leave something of permanent benefit to the citizens of the countries concerned. These are important lessons, especially as the United States wrestles with its responsibilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak states for international order, and the grounds on which the international community may legitimately intervene to prop them up. Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution; The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order; Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity; and The End of History and the Last Man.
Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know—and more often don’t know--about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that will leave something of permanent benefit to the citizens of the countries concerned. These are important lessons, especially as the United States wrestles with its responsibilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.
Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak states for international order, and the grounds on which the international community may legitimately intervene to prop them up.
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution; The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order; Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity; and The End of History and the Last Man.
