Promoting the general welfare : new perspectives on government performance
"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, and federalism affect government's ability to solve important social problems"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2006
Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ©2006
proceedings (reports)
viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780815731207, 9780815731214, 0815731205, 0815731213
71189805
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
Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Virginia in November 2004