Dan Honig is an Associate Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and an affiliate with the Better Government Lab. His research focuses on the relationship between management practice, organizational structure, and performance in delivering welfare-improving services. His next book (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) is focused on how best to attract, retain, and cultivate mission-oriented public servants worldwide. He is also the Principal Investigator on Relational State Capacity, an ERC-awarded five year (2023-2028) exploration of state capacity which argues we need to move beyond simply seeing state capacity as the technical ability of the state to "make" or "deliver" things.