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The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How To Fix Them
Donald F. Kettl

W. W. Norton, 2008

This book exposes the reality that our twentieth-century government is no match for twenty-first-century problems and proposes a solution. In this timely and compelling book, Donald F. Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the government is trying to solve. Pick almost any recent domestic concern?waging a war, protecting our food supply and borders, providing health-care coverage for an aging ...

Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics)

9 reviews
James Wilson

Basic Books, 1991

Wonderfully written
Wilson, as usual, writes amazingly well in this comprehensive book covering bureaucracies, how they operate, and why bureaucrats act the way they do. He discusses the different organizational features that persist across all bureaucracies, and why it is that once a bureaucracy is created it's almost impossible to get rid of. This may pique your interest if you've been following the recent ...

Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails
Amihai Glazer, Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Harvard University Press, 2005

This book looks beyond politics to show how the ability of the U.S. government to implement policies is strongly affected by various economic constraints. These include the credibility of the policies, the ability of government to commit to them, the extent to which firms and consumers rationally anticipate their effects, whether the success of a policy further encourages firms and individuals to behave in intended ways, and whether the behavior ...

Why People Don't Trust Government

Harvard University Press, 1997

Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Three-quarters of Americans said they trusted the Federal government to do the right thing in 1964. Today, only a quarter do. Why the decline? Is this mistrust a healthy reflection of America's long-lasting skepticism of a strong state? Is mistrust a problem for the future of governance? Bringing together essays by leading Harvard scholars, this book explores the roots ...

Why Cover Up?: Why Governments Conceal the Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation

1 review

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

A good question
A very intelligent book. A great title, a great question and lots of great answers. I am not going to spoil the suspense. You must read this book. Something you did not know about. All the answers are there. Read THIS BOOK! S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt

Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy)

4 reviews
Milton Friedman

Hoover Inst Pr, 1993

GOOD BRISK READ
This essay is a really good way to stimulate theories and ideas, enabling the reader to conduct further research on his or her own.

Why Government Doesn't Work

46 reviews
Harry Browne

Liamworks, 1995

One of Harry's Best Volumes
Government is not necessarily your friend, guardian angel or friendly business partner. Government, for the most part, has become the means by which the powerful and well-connected ram through their personal and/or corporate agendas in their quest for more power and greater profits. Harry makes a great case for a limited, constitutionally-bound federal government that will do what it was ...

Government Performance: Why Management Matters (Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management)
Patricia W. Ingraham, Philip G. Joyce, ...

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Scholars and practitioners of public management have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to running effective government programs. While acknowledging the usefulness of each of these criteria, the authors of Government Performance argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. Examining government performance at the ...

Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do ...

2 reviews
Paul R. Verkuil

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Excellent demolition of the case for privatisation
In this fascinating book, Paul Verkuil, Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, examines the USA's shift from public government to private governance. Outsourcing rose by 86% between 2000 and 2005 and the value of non-competitive contracts rose by 115%, mainly due to the war on Iraq. He examines the public/private distinction, constitutional governance, the limits of ...

Why Government Can't Save You An Alternative To Political Activism

12 reviews
John MacArthur

Thomas Nelson, 2000

BRAVO!
A perfect treatise on the church's sidetracked theology that we can change the world through political might. This book defends the Christian's responsiblity to be involved, but correctly eschews trusting in man-made structures such as government to solve what are spiritual problems at the core. This book will cause Christians to consider whether God has ever given them the right to punish ...

Why Governments Go Wrong: Essays About Pathological And Corrupt Governments And How They Got That Way

1 review
Charles F Bingman

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

good, quick read
Written by an expert with decades of experience inside and outside government, this book builds deeper insight to both good and bad governance.

Why We'll Win - Conservative Edition: The Right's Leading Voices Argue the Case for America's Toughest Issues
Malcolm Friedberg

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007

PROVING ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THE RIGHT REALLY IS "RIGHT!" Why We'll Win takes a thoughtful look at the hot-button issues of our day through the eyes of people who have lived them. In this impactful book, Malcolm Friedberg explains the legal background of each issue as well as the experiences and beliefs behind the controversy. Then leading voices of America's right detail why they believe they will prevail on these critical, controversial ...

Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries

2 reviews
William Ascher

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

This book tells it like it is!
Anyone interested in conservation or resource use should have this book. It is the first book I have seen that actually tells in detail how bad resource use decisions are made in Third World countries. I picked it up with a sense of "ho hum--another book on resource econ--I bet I know it all already." I did know most of what Ascher says, but I hung on every word anyway, because what he does ...

Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds
Milton J. Esman

Cornell University Press, 2000

What is the proper role of government in American life? This is the principal controversy in contemporary American politics. Milton J. Esman believes that the United States suffers not from too much government but from too little. Most Americans today proclaim pride in their democracy, but they do not trust Washington. Esman shows how American conservatives have, for the last quarter-century, hammered away at the federal government, attacking ...

Law without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States

3 reviews
Jeremy A. Rabkin

Princeton University Press, 2007

"By our own lights"
This is a thorough analysis of the relationship between trans national ideas and national sovereignty from an American perspective. He holds up current concepts of international affairs to historical and moral philosophical scrutiny. Rabkin makes a strong case for why America should protect its Constitution and independence and not let its system of government be corrupted and polluted by ...

Defending Government: Why Big Government Works

1 review
Max Neiman

Prentice Hall, 1999

A Brilliant Treatise
It's all too rare that one finds a book like this. Neiman addresses nearly every aspect of government, cleverly and entertainingly explaining not why it needs to be big, but why government is an essential part of our society, despite many Americans' claims to the contrary. I've used it in many of my courses, and find my students not only interested in it, but generating new thoughts of their own. ...

Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why: The 1999 Government Report on Profiling Terrorists

2 reviews
Rex Hudson

The Lyons Press, 2002

Knowledge is Power
Anyone who wants to get a glimpse of just how much is "knowable" should read this book. Though many will find the academic style of this book somewhat daunting, it provides an incredible vantage on just how much our government discovered about international terrorism BEFORE September 11th. If you read this book bearing in mind that its contents are not classified, you can begin to imagine how ...

Removing College Price Barriers: What Government Has Done and Why It Hasn't Worked (Suny Series, Social ...
Michael Mumper

State University of New York Press, 1995

Mumper provides a comprehensive overview of trends in college finance from 1965 to the present. He chronicles how the creation of the federal student aid programs, coupled with increasing state support of higher education, substantially lowered college price barriers during the late 1960s and 1970s. Since 1980, however, the rising costs of providing a higher education have combined with stable state support to drive tuitions rapidly upward. ...

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