What! How unbelievably unprofessional. I'm sure the author valued your time and feedback.

Let me guess. Another reviewer felt threatened by it and gave it an unearned horrible review and the press is afraid to tell the gate-keeping reviewer to stuff it and also afraid to tell you they are being cowards. Just a guess.

I would like to see any paper analyze whether the alleged failures of universities line up with the proposed "remedies." Spoiler...they do not. Universities are under attack not because of their failures but because of their successes.

There are such great political histories of all the major agencies created during the progressive era. And reading across them makes it pretty clear that those who stood to lose under civil service reform were going to pull every possible lever to defang federal agencies.

The idea of reforming state agencies divided the GOP, so you have real opportunities for bipartisanship in Congress around the issue for a sustained period in the late 19th C. And the social mvt creates electoral pressure that helps to overcome machine politics.

Short answer... Create a social movement around efficiency (for real), point out to urban merchants and farmers that the captains of industry are not their friends, and create education pipelines building on k-12 & land grant universities into the professions who can staff new agencies.

I actually haven't paid much attention to undecideds. Do they normally all go entirely for one candidate or the other?

So undecided= I'm too embarrassed to say I'm voting GOP.