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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Awduron Corfforaethol: Brookings Institution, ebrary, Inc
Awduron Eraill: Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M.
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.