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Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better /

From healthcare to workplace and campus 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. Ineffective policies are caused...

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Autor principal: Schuck, Peter H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Successes
  • Part 3: Remedies and Reprise
  • CHAPTER 12. Remedies: Lowering Government's Failure Rate
  • CHAPTER 13. Conclusion
  • Note
  • Index