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"Analyzes government's ability to "promote the general welfare" in the areas of health, transportation, housing, and education. Then examines two tools to improve policy design: information markets and laboratory experiments. Concludes by asking how Congress, the party system, an...

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Corporate Authors: Brookings Institution, ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Public welfare administration > United States > Evaluation > Congresses.
Public administration > United States > Evaluation > Congresses.
United States > Social conditions > 1980- > Congresses.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009 > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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300 |a viii, 344 p. :  |b ill. 
500 |a Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Virginia in November 2004. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Government performance : missing opportunities to solve problems / Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik -- Policy analysis in representative democracy / David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining -- Sham surgery : the problem of inadequate medical evidence / Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik -- Urban transportation / Clifford Winston -- Achieving fundamental housing policy reform / Edgar O. Olsen -- Fixing special education / Jay P. Greene -- Decision markets for policy advice / Robin Hanson -- An experimental basis for public policy initiatives / Charles A. Holt, William M. Shobe, and Angela M. Smith -- Can Congress serve the general welfare? / Sarah A. Binder -- Congress as problem solver / David R. Mayhew -- Parties as problem solvers? / Morris P. Fiorina -- Taking the Brandeis metaphor seriously : policy experimentation within a federal system / Mark Carl Rom -- The states as a laboratory : legal innovation and state competition for corporate charters / Roberta Romano -- Two perspectives on governmental underperformance / Eugene Bardach. 
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