Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better
Peter. Schuck
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (485 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; Part 1: The Context of Policy Making; CHAPTER 2: Success, Failure, and In Between; CHAPTER 3: Policy-Making Functions, Processes, Missions, Instruments, and Institutions; CHAPTER 4: The Political Culture of Policy Making; Part 2: The Structural Sources of Policy Failure; CHAPTER 5: Incentives and Collective Irrationality; CHAPTER 6: Information, Inflexibility, Incredibility, and Mismanagement; CHAPTER 7: Markets; CHAPTER 8: Implementation; CHAPTER 9: The Limits of Law; CHAPTER 10: The Bureaucracy. - CHAPTER 11: Policy SuccessesPart 3: Remedies and Reprise; CHAPTER 12: Remedies: Lowering Government's Failure Rate; CHAPTER 13: Conclusion; Notes; Index. - From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence of ineffective policies, in addition to unrealized social goals, is the growing threat to the government's democratic legitimacy. Understanding why government fails so often-and how it might become more effective-is an urgent responsibility of citizenship. In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Sc
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| ISBN | 9780691161624
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