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

"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 inef...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schuck, Peter H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The context of policy making. Success, failure, and in between ; Policy-making functions, processes, missions, instruments, and institution ; The political culture of policy making
  • The structural sources of policy failure. Incentives and collective irrationality ; Information, inflexibility, incredibility, and mismanagement ; Markets ; Implementation ; The limits of law ; The bureaucracy ; Policy successes
  • Remedies and reprise. Remedies : lowering government's failure rate.