Promoting the general welfare new perspectives on government performance /
"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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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.