Promoting the general welfare new perspectives on government performance /

Corporate Author: Brookings Institution.
Other Authors: Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10160984
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245 0 0 |a Promoting the general welfare  |b new perspectives on government performance /  |c Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, editors. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Brookings Institution Press,  |c c2006. 
300 |a viii, 344 p. :  |b ill. 
500 |a Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Virginia in November 2004. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Public welfare administration  |x Evaluation  |z United States 
650 0 |a Public administration  |x Evaluation  |z United States 
651 0 |a United States  |x Social conditions  |y 1980- 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 2001-2009 
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700 1 |a Patashnik, Eric M. 
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