In that conventional approaches to governance reform, particularly legalistic reforms to the administrative process and the rise of the modern civic tech field, have tended to focus on a “good governance” framework that does relatively little to address deeper disparities of power and inequality. Yet we also saw that there is a different tradition of governance reform that takes the problems of power seriously. From mid-century experiments with institutionalized countervailing power to battles over participation in the War on Poverty, these alternative approaches to governance reform sought to remake bureaucracies and public policies alike to redress power imbalances, creating genuine democratic agency for individuals and communities. Chapters 6 and 7 explore what this power-shifting approach to governance reform looks like in the context of today’s battles over democracy, inequality, and governance.