Why government fails so often : and how it can do better

Summary: 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 Schu.

Record details

ISBN: 9780691161624
ISBN: 0691161623
ISBN: 9781400850044
ISBN: 9781306494762
ISBN: 1400850045
ISBN: 1306494761
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 471 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.