Why Government Succeeds and Why It FailsHarvard University Press, 1. jul. 2009 - 224 strani 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 of such actors can be sustained without continued government intervention. The authors apply these concepts to four areas of policy: macroeconomic policies to promote employment and economic growth, redistributive policies to benefit the poor and the elderly, production policies to provide goods and services, and regulatory policies to guide the behavior of firms and individuals. In doing so they provide plausible explanations of many puzzling phenomena--for example, why government has been successful in reducing cigarette smoking, but has failed to get people to install and maintain emission-control devices in their cars. This book recasts debates about public policy, avoiding conventional pro-government or anti-government positions; rather, it helps to predict when public policy will succeed. |
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Fiscal PolicyIs It Just Crowding Out? | 29 |
Persuasion and the Art of Equilibrium Selection | 31 |
Budget Deficits as Policy Instruments | 38 |
Can Government Control the Economy? | 43 |
Redistribution A Success Story? | 44 |
Producing Goods and Services Getting the Right Mix | 92 |
What Is Production? | 94 |
Crowding Out Private Provision | 96 |
Credibility as an Obstacle to Inducing Production | 102 |
Credibility as an Obstacle to Restricting Production | 105 |
Production Is Difficult | 112 |
Economic Constraints and Political Institutions | 114 |
Divided Government and the Politics of Gridlock | 115 |
Economic Constraints and Redistribution | 46 |
Data | 48 |
Government Commitment to Future Redistribution | 53 |
Implications for Redistribution | 54 |
Effectiveness of Redistributive Policy | 55 |
Why Not Taxes? | 64 |
Redistributive Possibilities | 67 |
When Can Government Regulate? | 68 |
The Scope of Regulation | 69 |
Possibilities and Pitfalls | 71 |
Regulating Consumer Behavior | 85 |
Conditions for Regulatory Success | 90 |
Federalism and the Devolution of Authority | 121 |
Political and Policy Reform | 127 |
What Do Politicians Know? | 132 |
Institutional Design and Policy Effectiveness | 133 |
Final Thoughts | 135 |
Five Lessons | 137 |
The Burden of Government | 141 |
Notes | 145 |
References | 171 |
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Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Why Government Succeeds and why it Fails Amihai Glazer,Lawrence S. Rothenberg Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2001 |
Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails Amihai Glazer,Lawrence S. Rothenberg Predogled ni na voljo - 2005 |
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Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 21 - You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my reelection hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fucking bond traders?
Navedki za to knjigo
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Policy Into Action: Implementation Research and Welfare Reform Mary Clare Lennon,Tom Corbett Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2003 |