Why Government Fails So Often - Peter Schuck

Why Government Fails So Often
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Autor: Peter Schuck

 Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691161624
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 488
Data wydania: 2014-03-01
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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 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. Schuck argues that Washington's failures are due not to episodic problems or partisan bickering, but rather to deep structural flaws that undermine every administration, Democratic and Republican. These recurrent weaknesses include unrealistic goals, perverse incentives, poor and distorted information, systemic irrationality, rigidity and lack of credibility, a mediocre bureaucracy, powerful and inescapable markets, and the inherent limits of law. To counteract each of these problems, Schuck proposes numerous achievable reforms, from avoiding moral hazard in student loan, mortgage, and other subsidy programs, to empowering consumers of public services, simplifying programs and testing them for cost-effectiveness, and increasing the use of "big data." The book also examines successful policies--including the G.I. Bill, the Voting Rights Act, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and airline deregulation--to highlight the factors that made them work. An urgent call for reform, Why Government Fails So Often is essential reading for anyone curious about why government is in such disrepute and how it can do better. "In Why Government Fails So Often, Peter H. Schuck takes up this vital question in what amounts to a systematic survey of the limits of American public administration. It is a profound book, and a sobering one... Peter H. Schuck has written an essential manual for 21st-century policy makers."--Yuval Levin, Wall Street Journal "Schuck does a beautiful job of laying out all the problems with government intervention... [T]here are many gems in this book."--David Henderson, Econlog "Schuck makes a compelling case that many domestic programs, including those that have considerable public support among Republicans as well as Democrats, deliver benefits at costs that are much higher than necessary and contain damaging unintended consequences."--Glenn Altschuler, Boston Globe "Anyone who wants clear insight into government's modern wayward momentum, and its toll on society, should hear Peter Schuck... His recommendations for change are refreshing."--Colorado Springs Gazette "This lively and authoritative account of government failure deserves to be read by advocates of all political persuasions... This admirable work offers compelling evidence that government might do far better by doing far less."--Gene Epstein, Barron's

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Peter Schuck