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Former associate dean Paul Light argues for major changes in federal agencies in his new book "A Government Ill Executed."

Light, a South Dakota native and a former associate dean of the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, is a professor at New York University, a Brookings Institution fellow and the author of 19 books. He brings Midwestern practicality and scholarly nonpartisanship to bear on his case that tinkering won't correct the problem. The federal service needs a major overhaul.