{"id":5715,"date":"2026-04-08T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:49:08","slug":"government-project-why-we-revived-this-lost-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/government-project-why-we-revived-this-lost-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Project: Why We Revived This Lost\u00a0Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"777\" data-attachment-id=\"5716\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/government-project-why-we-revived-this-lost-classic\/banfield-government-project-2023-edition-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover.png\" data-orig-size=\"516,777\" 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=\"Banfield Government project 2023 edition cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover-199x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover.png 516w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banfield-Government-project-2023-edition-cover-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not terribly long ago, I partnered with AEI Press to revive a lost classic book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48S4nV2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Government Project<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by the great social scientist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edwardcbanfield.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edward C. Banfield<\/a>\u00a0(1916-1999). The book was published in 1951, and had been out of print for decades. My passion for the book started around 20 years earlier. I had read the book and been stunned by its brilliance and wisdom&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/edwardcbanfield.org\/2026\/04\/08\/government-project-why-we-revived-this-lost-classic\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not terribly long ago, I partnered with AEI Press to revive a lost classic book,\u00a0Government Project\u00a0by the great social scientist\u00a0Edward C. Banfield\u00a0(1916-1999). The book was published in 1951, and had been out of print for decades. My passion for the book started around 20 years earlier. I had read the book and been stunned by [&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":[54],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-behavior","tag-edward-c-banfield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1ub","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","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=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}