The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them
This book exposes the reality that our twentieth-century government is no match for twenty-first-century problems and proposes a solution.In this timely and compelling book, Donald F. Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the government is trying to solve. Pick almost any recent domestic concern—waging a war, protecting our food supply and borders, providing health-care coverage for an aging population or relief after a devastating hurricane—and the standard response is to outsource most of the core tasks to thousands of independent contractors. The government foots the bill, but this strate…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-07247-1
- EAN: 9780393072471
- Produktnummer: 37911294
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 9 illustrations
Über den Autor
Preeminent public policy expert Donald F. Kettl is the director of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of many books. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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