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Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better

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Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 PART 1: The Context of Policy Making 37 CHAPTER 2: Success, Failure, and In Between 39 CHAPTER 3: Policy-Making Functions, Processes, Missions, Instruments, and Institutions 64 CHAPTER 4: The Political Culture of Policy Making 91 PART 2: The Structural Sources of Policy Failure 125 CHAPTER 5: Incentives and Collective Irrationality 127 CHAPTER 6: Information, Inflexibility, Incredibility, and Mismanagement 161 CHAPTER 7: Markets 198 CHAPTER 8: Implementation 229 CHAPTER 9: The Limits of Law 277 CHAPTER 10: The Bureaucracy 307 CHAPTER 11: Policy Successes 327 PART 3: Remedies and Reprise 369 CHAPTER 12: Remedies: Lowering Government's Failure Rate 371 CHAPTER 13: Conclusion 408 Notes 413 Index 463

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