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Economic Association, 56–57

Economic crisis of 2008 and beyond, 40, 193, 203–204

Economic reform aid to Russia, 111–122

Chubais-Harvard players and, 122–138

goals of, 113–114

Economist, The (periodical), 113, 125–126

Economy,

command, 51–52, 53–54

gray/underground, 52

informal, 56

of shortage, 48

See also economic crisis of 2008 and beyond

Efficiency, deregulation and privatization and narrative of, 31–32

Elite(s),

global, 14

networks within political, 19

Polish economic, 55–56

political economy and, 40

Embedded workforce, 81

End of History, The (Fukuyama), 34

End of Liberalism, The (Lowi), 76

End to Evil, An (Perle), 156

Enemies, objective, 155

Energy Task Force, 101–102

Enron, 195–196, 199

Ethics, 193–194

contractors and, 91–92

flexian activity and, 12, 198–199

as reduced to individual conscience, 20, 39, 193–194

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 134

Evolving door, 10, 105

Executive power

flex nets operating through, 135–138

increased, 4, 28, 106–108

nomadic groups and clans and, 62

Expertise

and Neocon core, 149, 156–157, 169, 177, 179–180

consulting and, 25

draining of in-house government, 90

illusion of, 35

FACA. See Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)

FAIR (Federal Activities Inventory Reform) Act, 83

Fannie Mae, 135

FARA. See Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA)

FASA. See Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA)

FBI, 88, 156, 190, 198

Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA), 93

Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA), 93

Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act, 83

Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 100, 101

Federal advisory committees, 77, 100–101

Federal budget, growth of shadow government and, 79

Federal Computer Week (trade publication), 11, 95

Federal Emergency Management Agency, 90

Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), 95

Federal Securities Commission, 114, 115

Federal Securities Committee, 131, 132

Feith, Douglas, 172, 173, 189, 190, 199

ballistic missile defense and, 166–167, 168

Iraq War and, 154, 178–180, 182, 183

Middle East policy and, 170

Perle and, 147–149, 152, 153

worldview of, 156–157

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 98

Fey, Tina, 42

Financial arena, money laundering and, 34–35

Financial instruments, transparency and, 36

Financial markets, regulation of, 36–37, 203–204

Financial Times (newspaper), 130, 145

Financial transactions, 34–35

First Russian Specialized Depository, 115

Fitzgerald, Frances, 167

Flex, as concept, 1

institutionalization of, 81

Flex activity, 5–8, 32, 47, 194

democracy and, 19–20

in Central and Eastern Europe, 13–15

responses to, 12

Flexian(s), 5–12

access to official information and, 1–2, 3, 4

accountability and, 193–205

evolution of, 13–15

features of, 15–19

Flexian(s) (continued)

Jackson example, 8–9

juggling roles and responsibilities, 17–18

Kelman example, 10–11

overlapping roles of, 8, 13, 21

personalizing bureaucracy, 15–16

privatizing information while branding conviction, 16–17

relation to government, 12

relation to institutional nomads/clans, 61–62

relation to organizations, 1, 5

relaxing rules, 18–19

self-presentation, 11

truthiness and, 43–44

use of media, 16–17

Flexible identities, 26

Flex loyalties, 1

Flex net(s), 5, 15–19

accountability and, 199–200

benefits of for Chubais-Harvard players, 141–142

hybrid habitat of, 19

intricate spine of, 16

paradox of, 20

precursors of, 55–58

relation to institutional nomads/clans, 61–62

as resource pool, 18

rise of in Poland, 58–61

shared conviction and action of, 17

See also Neocon core and Chubais-Harvard players

Flex organizations

of Chubais-Harvard players, 133–135

supplanting of state and, 135–136

Flex power, 1, 47

Ford, Gerald, 159

Ford Foundation, 116

Foreign Affairs (periodical), 130, 144, 203

Foreign policy, Neocon core and, 150–151, 155

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, 188

Foundations, 171

Fox News Network, 182, 184, 185

FPDS. See Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS)

Franklin, Lawrence A., 188

Freddie Mac, 83, 135

Freedom to Manage initiative, 169

Free market, codes of competition of, 7

Frum, David, 156, 157

Fundusze celowe , 69–70

Future Shock (Toffler), 38

Gaebler, Ted, 27

Gaffney, Frank, 152, 153, 156, 166, 167, 168, 172, 176, 185, 188. See also Center for Security Policy

Gaidar, Yegor, 116–117, 118, 129

GAO. See Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Gates, Robert M., 106

Gazeta Wyborcza (newspaper), 64

Gazprom, 6, 7, 127, 138

General Services Administration (GSA), 84, 96, 97–98

Germany, Schroeder’s flexian activity and, 6, 7

Ghorbanifar, Manucher, 164, 165, 188

Gianni, Gaston L., 201

GKOs, 139

Global elites, 14

Globalization, transformational developments and, 26–27

Goldman Sachs, 7, 139, 198

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 116

Gore, Al, 29

Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, 122, 131, 132

Governance, 77

Governing

emergent forms of, 20, 27, 75, 86, 109

evolution of American system of, 19–20

moral community and, 198–199

redesign of, 4, 27–33, 78, 81–82

Government

changes in U.S. federal, 75–76

injecting business principles into, 28, 29

purpose of, 92

relation to flexians, 12

shadow, 76–82

size of, 28, 30–31, 80

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

on CACI, 96

on contractors, 85, 105

on Energy Task Force, 102

on Harvard Institute of International Development activities in Russia, 118, 119, 126, 127, 144

on management of interagency contracting, 97

on oversight of contractors, 86–87, 88

on risk of large procurement operations, 80–81

Government Accountability Project, 97

Governmental functions carried out by contractors, 83–86

Government audits, 3

Government Computer News (trade publication), 95

Government officials, moving to private industry, 105–106

“Government Sachs,” 40, 204

Government-sponsored commissions, 168

Government work, competitive sourcing and, 73–74. See also Inherently governmental functions

Gray economy, 52

Green, Stephen, 148, 149

Grossman, Gregory, 52

GSA. See General Services Administration (GSA)

Gusinsky, Vladimir, 62–63

Guttman, Dan, 78, 89

Gyawali, Dipak, 196

Hadley, Stephen J., 181, 183, 186, 188, 190

Hakim, Albert, 162, 163

Halliburton, 74

Hannah, John P., 173

Hardball (television program), 185

Hardt, Michael, 40

Hartung, William D., 167

Harvard Corporation, 134, 145

Harvard Institute for International Development Russian program, 111, 115, 117, 118, 119–120

effect on government in United States, 138

investigation of, 143–146

See also Chubais-Harvard players

Harvard Management Company, 139

Harvard University, Harvard project and, 114, 139, 146

lawsuits against, 127–128, 144