The Trouble With Government

Author : Derek Curtis Bok
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004481
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Government written by Derek Curtis Bok and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "State of the Nation" seeks to determine the main reasons for the failings and frustrations associated with government and offers concrete steps that Americans can take to become politically engaged and to help the United States to improve its performance. 3 tables.

Author : Kenneth J. Long
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739128302
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with America written by Kenneth J. Long and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of American government-government too weak to solve our public problems, restrained more in its ability to do good than in its ability to do harm, and grossly unfair to the poor and middle classes. As a result, we Americans find ourselves with poor leadership, inadequate representation, failing policies, and a pathological culture.

Author : Milton Friedman
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817954430
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Government Is the Problem written by Milton Friedman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

Author : Joseph S. Nye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674940574
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why People Don’t Trust Government written by Joseph S. Nye and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Leading Harvard scholars here explore the roots of this mistrust by examining the government's current scope, its actual performance, citizens' perceptions of its performance, and explanations that have been offered for the decline of trust.

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137281669
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Authority written by Michael Huemer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.

Author : Isabel Sawhill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230362
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.

Author : Roger Bootle
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889886
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Markets written by Roger Bootle and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trenchant, topical, and thought-provoking exploration of both our economic future and the future of the market system itself.

Author : Kenneth J. Long
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739132717
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with America written by Kenneth J. Long and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of American government, focusing on the fatal flaws of America's core political arrangements. Institutionalized pluralism, the structural dispersal of power, generates government too weak to solve our public problems. American constitutionalism, the limitation of government power and authority, protects property rights far better than it defends our civil liberties, and it offers little or no protection for non-citizens. Capitalism is a hyper-competitive and grossly unfair economic system, which rewards pre-existing wealth far better than hard work or talent, and encourages petty materialist consumption of mostly low-quality goods, undermining taste as well as fairness. Taken together, pluralism, constitutionalism, and capitalism in America harm our society in a myriad of ways, leaving us with inadequate representation, poor leadership, social and political paralysis and irresponsibility, unrealistic self-images, and scandalously poor domestic and foreign policies. This book will prove a valuable supplement in American government courses, an alternative to the centrist material currently dominating textbooks on this subject.

Author : Chester Collins Maxey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Government written by Chester Collins Maxey and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Mair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429875312
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of the State written by Michael Mair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problem of the State provides a new perspective on what the social and political sciences can contribute to understandings of the state and the ambivalent place it occupies in our collective affairs. Distinguishing two broad conceptual and methodological approaches to addressing the problem of how to study the state empirically rather than theoretically - the constitutionalist and constructionist positions – the author reviews the grounds and limits of both to reveal their common assumption: that it is up to the social and political sciences to define what the problem of the state is. Building on insights from Marx, Wittgenstein and Ethnomethodology, this book frees the study of the state from the limiting assumptions of common approaches and advocates a return of the problem to its proper environment, in social and political practice.