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Five Reasons for the CBO's Success

History is chock full of instances where key initiatives of a majority party were called into question by the Congressional Budget Office. Yet it survives.

Our Management Insights colleague Philip Joyce writes that it is nothing short of amazing that the United States Congress -- as partisan an institution as it is possible to imagine -- actually tolerates the Congressional Budget Office. READ MORE

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.
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