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Why Government Fails So Often

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Why Government Fails So Often

By Peter H. Schuck

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About the book

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 effe...Show more

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9780691168531

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Princeton University Press

Published year

2015

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Why Government Fails So Often

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