Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better / Peter H. Schuck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuck, Peter H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Political planning--United States.

Political planning.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Economic policy.

United States--Social policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 by deep structural factors regardless of which party is in charge, bringing our government into ever-worsening disrepute. Understanding why government fails so often-and how it might become more effective-is a vital responsibility of citizenship.In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Schuck provides a wide range of examples and an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domestic policies go awry-and how to right the foundering ship of state. An urgent call for reform, Why Government Fails So Often is essential reading for anyone curious about why government is in such a disgraceful state and how it can do better.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-462) and index.

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ISBN:

9781400850044

1400850045

OCLC:

872633861