by jessparvin | Mar 7, 2024 | Democracy, Presidential Succession, Uncategorized
The House speaker crisis calls attention to the potential for far worse political instability. By Jean Parvin Bordewich and Roy E. Brownell II Originally published on October 27, 2023 in The Wall Street Journal The ousting of Kevin McCarthy as speaker threw the House...
by jessparvin | Sep 13, 2023 | Democracy, History, Presidential Succession, Uncategorized
Should the president and vice president both die, you’d think we’d have a well-considered plan to reconstitute the government. In fact, we don’t. Originally published on April 4, 2023 in Washington Monthly Most of us who follow government know what the line of...
by Jean | May 7, 2022 | Democracy, Uncategorized
Originally published on May 4, 2022, by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Jean Parvin Bordewich is a program officer in the U.S. Democracy Program at the Hewlett Foundation, overseeing grantmaking for the National Governing Institutions strategy. Earlier she...
by jessparvin | Apr 22, 2022 | Democracy, Uncategorized
Originally published on September 11, 2018, at TheHill.com Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) many admirers, understandably enough, are calling for his name to replace that of the once-formidable Richard Russell on the oldest Senate office building, or somewhere else on...
by jessparvin | Mar 22, 2022 | Democracy, Uncategorized
Originally published on November 24, 2020, at Hewlett.org The COVID pandemic helped accelerate efforts to modernize Congress. U.S. Democracy Program Officer Jean Bordewich weighs in on the changes and what’s in store for the future. This is part of Think Again, a...
