Getting Things Done in Washington According to an Insider Attorney - Joel Corcoran, J.D.

Getting things done in Washington may seem impossible with all the bipartisan drama humans have to wade through these days. However, getting things done might be as simple as putting a dollar in the hat and forging a new party, or special action group. Former Washington Science and Technology Policy Advisor, Joel Corcoran discussses widespread fears that corporations have grown into super-entities and shares what you can do to keep the ship on course.

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Links to Joel's References:

Andris C, Lee D, Hamilton MJ, Martino M, Gunning CE, Selden JA (2015) The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123507. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123507

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge Massachusetts :The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014

A brief history of the GOPACStrategy and Instructional Tapes (1986-1994) provided by the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/GOPACtapes.pdf)

"Language: A Key Mechanism of Control," a memo Newt Gingrich authored in 1996. A copy is available through the Connections Lab website (https://connectionslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/informationclearinghouse-info-a-key-mechanism-of-control.pdf)

David Broder. A Partisan Edge That Cuts Both Ways. The Washington Post; November 18, 1998; page A21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/gingrich110898.htm

McKay Coppins (November 2018). How Newt Gingrich Destroyed American Politics. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

314 Action, an advocacy organization with the mission to elect more scientists to Congress, state legislatures, and local offices.
https://314action.org/

International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=76485238C9170518B073108DB55E4F52.APP1

Jocelyn Kiley (October 2017). Understanding Pew Research Center's political typology. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/24/understanding-pew-research-centers-political-typology/
NOTE: This article on the Pew Research Center website describes how they developed the political typology framework and includes links to various reports and a quiz that people can take to help them understand their own typology.

Robert Putnam. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). http://bowlingalone.com/