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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Tác giả khác: Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M.
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
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  • 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
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