The politics of bad ideas : the great tax cut delusion and the decline of good government in America /

Main Author: Jones, Bryan D.
Other Authors: Williams, Walter.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pearson Longman, c2008.
Series:Great questions in politics series
Subjects:
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300 1 4 |a vi, 378 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 21 cm. 
490 1 4 |a Great questions in politics series 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 4 |a The politics of bad ideas -- The tax cut theories -- Evaluating the claims -- Budgetary politics and the spending mind-set -- Institutions, rules, and politics -- Big government republicanism costs money -- Politics, economics, and tax theories -- The impacts of recent fiscal policies on America -- The rise and decline of reality-based policymaking in the Federal Government, 1945-2007 -- The role of institutions -- Why do bad ideas persist? -- Escaping the dead weight of bad ideas. 
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