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Joel Rubin is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management in Washington, DC. He's also an elected local government official for the Town Council of Chevy Chase, MD and leads the consultancy practice "Washington Strategy Group."
Political power transitions are always a shock to the system. Our country’s democratic form of governance is both stable and unstable simultaneously. Stable, because the institutions that…