The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public : Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment /

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that shoulder these responsibil...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Steinzor, Rena (Autor), Shapiro, Sidney (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
Administrative agencies > United States.
Government accountability > United States.
Public interest > United States.
Public safety > United States.
LAW / General.
government, politics, political, health, public, safety, environment, environmentalist, environmental, climate change, america, american, united states, usa, academic, scholarly, research, professor, college, higher education, federal, dangerous, protection, pollution, natural resources, nature, regulation, regulatory, legislation, legislative, white house, bureaucracy, systemic.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Diagnosis
  • Chapter 1. Public Interest Lost
  • Chapter 2. The People's Agents
  • Chapter 3. Hollow Government
  • Chapter 4. Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Part 2. Institutions
  • Chapter 5. Congress
  • Chapter 6. The White House
  • Chapter 7. The Judiciary
  • Part 3. Solutions
  • Chapter 8. Positive Metrics
  • Chapter 9. Renewing the Civil Service
  • Chapter 10. The Road Forward
  • Notes
  • Index

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