Government or business company?; Waiting for the failure of the Ilan Musk DOGE project in the Trump administration – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

Mehr News Agency, International Group – Mohammad Amin Nick: It was the first time, in November, when US President Donald Trump announced that Ilan Musk and Viwuk Ramasavami will take the task of the Department of Effectiveness or Effectiveness (DOGE). The project, which had been launched with a lot of advertising, focused its main focus on saving resources and efficiency of government agencies and departments. However, following the resignation of Ramasavami, Ilan Musk, who gained popularity through his technology projects and considered one of the richest people in the world, led the project. According to the manifesto, the plan was to optimize the government spending through a revision of many departments, contracts and mechanisms, $ 2 trillion savings in an eighteen -month period.

After the Trump administration came to power, DOGE began with an informal call from the “revolutionary elite of the government’s shrinking” to refuse to work without wages. The integration of some institutions, the cancellation of a number of contracts, inspections of the efficiency of various departments and government departments, and the increase in working hours and more strictness than government employees were among the measures taken during this period.

On the other hand, it was supposed to use technology tools, such as artificial intelligence chat in data analysis and improving government systems in public services, education, housing, etc., developing digital infrastructure in data connection and integration, as well as utilizing these new technologies, and using these new technologies. But with all this, the plan was much sooner than what was thought and the results were by no means close to its initial estimates, and according to the reports, only $ 5 million was saved during the period, which some believe is largely fabricated and the actual figure is much lower.

But the question that comes to mind is why, despite the extensive propaganda of the project and the “successful economic people”, the plan led to failure and led to severe disputes between Mask and Trump after his departure from the government? It may be analyzed in two respects. First, a historical view that examines the roots of this issue, and the second institutionalist view, which refers to the difference between the principles of this project and government agencies in the United States.

From a historical point of view, it was like a storm that influenced many issues. From art and literature to the field of technology and all issues related to human life, it has been influenced by developments in this era and has shaped a particular type of lifestyle due to developments in political, economic, cultural and social dimensions.

The government, as one of the main components of human life, has undergone major developments in this period, and with the expansion of divorced governments in the eighteenth century, a specific form of institutionalization emerged and emerged, and a new framework of relations between rulers and citizens was drawn in the form of a social contract. From this point of view, the expansion of institutions has become one of the milestones of developed and powerful governments in the present era; But the DOGE project was fully in conflict with this important state of state. For example, while statesmen usually take over the affairs of the political and party within the body of political systems, Ilan Musk has entered the body because of his wealth and his success in the economic arena, an out -of -government for change. In another example, he was always present at the White House in an informal dress and spoke in a different way; While government principles and standards demanded that a particular style of behavior in the state environment was observed by government officials. Also within the framework of the social contract, the government represents the citizens to provide the citizens as well as possible by providing order and providing public services as much as possible, but in this project, the attitudinal inconsistencies are quite evident, which leads to the analysis of the project from another point of view: The government atmosphere is different from entrepreneurship and business-economic activities.

In this regard, Masokato (1) in the book “Entrepreneur’s State” Criticizing the theories of the government’s ineffectiveness in improving the economic situation, market and technology development, the role of governments is crucial. Masocato shows that successful governments in the field of innovation have played the role of entrepreneurs themselves, meaning not only infrastructure and framework, but also the risk, bold investment and the creation of new markets. However, in the DOGE project of the state and state bureaucracy, despite the existing inefficiency and its many weaknesses, they are considered as an intruder and a hindrance to technological innovation and improvement. From the point of view of Masokato’s theory in analyzing the causes of the failure of this project, the factors include:

1. Lack of sustainable institutional structure:

Unlike the government, which has a historical and institutional structure and these structures are evaluated, modified and learned, but DOGE operated on the context of temporary structures without sufficient supervision and did not cover any of the abilities, which made many experts exaggerated.

2. Focus on reducing costs rather than strategic investment

While the government’s presence in the field of public services and various issues, albeit limited to public participation through taxation, is mainly based on cost reduction, elimination of social programs and reduced many public services, which in addition to reducing government service quality led to increased public discontent.

3. Lack of transparency and accountability

One of the features of the state in the modern age, especially among the democratic governments, is the discussion of transparency, accountability and responsibility. According to criticisms of the project, due to the lack of transparency in decision making and the submission of irregular financial reports, the possibility of DOGE was virtually impaired and even deleted information on the contracts from one time after its official website.

4. Ecosystem disorganization in the relationship of government and the private sector

Basically, the presence of technologies in governance systems leads to the formation of a technological ecosystem to improve processes and achieve better results. This ecosystem is also interpreted as Govtech. In the DOGE project, due to the governance, solely through market and economic activities, the ecosystem components did not work well, and due to the lack of attention to the institutional characteristics of the government and its requirements, the private sector failed to perform well, resulting in damage to Ilan Musk’s reputation.

In the end, it can be said that the lack of proper understanding of the state environment and the one -dimensional and purely economic look caused it to the DOGE project errors, which in addition to neutralizing the expected plan and effectiveness, eventually led to its failure. Therefore, it is important to note that the government is not an economic company with a specific target community and a circle of customers and consumers in which the relationship between existing market relationships is fluent, but the government is in the position of a social contract, and a customer, and citizens are not as customers. And security is a kind of coherence.