Promoting the general welfare new perspectives on government performance / Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, editors.

"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., ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.