Elaine Kamarck

senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management

Guest

Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and the Director of its Center for Effective Public Management; author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates and Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again; Hillary Clinton superdelegate

Elaine Kamarck on KCRW

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