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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Schuck, Peter H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400850044; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400850044
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter H. Schuck.

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.