{"id":3244,"date":"2015-12-15T20:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2015-12-15T20:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:49:51","slug":"outsourcing-oversight-through-open-government-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/outsourcing-oversight-through-open-government-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Oversight through Open Government Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3175\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-estranged-legislative-and-executive-branches\/public-administration-times\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times.png\" data-orig-size=\"796,200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Public Administration Times\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times-300x75.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3175\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times.png\" alt=\"Public Administration Times\" width=\"796\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times.png 796w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Public-Administration-Times-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a>Congress has a big problem when it comes to oversight. The federal government has grown vastly larger over the past century, but Congress has done little to empower itself to keep track.<\/p>\n<p>However, thanks to open data, those outside the government now can lend a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Constitution set up a principle-agent relationship between Congress and the executive branch. Congress writes the laws, the agencies implement them and the legislature (the principle) is supposed to keep watch. This is representative democracy\u2014the people\u2019s chosen representatives are duty-bound to protect the public\u2019s liberties and tax dollars&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/patimes.org\/outsourcing-oversight-open-government-data\/\">Read more at Public Administration Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has a big problem when it comes to oversight. The federal government has grown vastly larger over the past century, but Congress has done little to empower itself to keep track. However, thanks to open data, those outside the government now can lend a helping hand. The U.S. Constitution set up a principle-agent relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[185,27,124],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-oversight","category-secrecy","category-technology","tag-public"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}