Taegan goddard biography

Taegan D. Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political sites.
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Political Wire is an American political blog.

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political economist

Taegan Daniel Goddard, American Political economist. Recipient Goldsmith Research award, Harvard University, 1993. Member Omicron Delta Epsilon.

Background

Goddard, Taegan Daniel was born on January 24, 1966 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Stephen Bradley and Patricia (Blaney) Goddard.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in economics, Vassar College, 1988; Master in Public Policy, Harvard University, 1992.

Career

Researcher, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, 1989-1990; finance policy analyst, United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, Washington, 1991-1993; project manager, Governor' General’ s Office of Policy & Management, Hartford, since 1993. Evaluator Innovations in State & Local Governor, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992-1994.

Achievements

Taegan Daniel Goddard has been listed as a noteworthy Political economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Omicron Delta Epsilon.

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You Won--Now What?

A COMMONSENSE ROAD MAP FOR MAKING OUR GOVERNMENT WORK
As public officials fail to deliver their campaign promises -- and voter cynicism skyrockets -- a simple explanation has become widely accepted: Government is broken. If only we could fix this system, voters hope, our democracy would work the way it was designed. But is government broken, or are the people we hire each Election Day not up to the job?
You Won -- Now What? turns the tables on the government-reform debate. The answer is not to reinvent government but to reinvent government officials.
Taegan D. Goddard and Christopher Riback use real-life stories to analyze the failures and successes of politicians from every level of government. Drawing on these examples, the authors identify the eight traits of effective public officials. These commonsense solutions prove that government is personal: good people can make a difficult system work. You Won -- Now What? explains to politicians and voters alike how government works -- and how it can work better.

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Most publishers that launch some kind of paid subscription product do so out of economic necessity. Subscription models are born out of a media company’s recognition that the online advertising market, as it currently stands, is not sufficient in its ability to fund quality journalism, thereby requiring the company to rely directly on its readers to close the revenue gap.

Taegan Goddard, however, contends that Political Wire, the aggregation and analysis site he founded and runs, was perfectly sustainable when he rolled out his paid membership program a half decade ago, and that he only did so to provide a way for his most loyal readers to bypass the site’s ads. “I found with programmatic ads that the incentives that exist between the publisher, the reader, and the advertiser are broken,” he told me. “The great thing about print newspapers was that the publisher would have to make sure that they were servicing both the advertiser