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In this book, former state legislator John E. Brandl argues that the usual remedies for ineffective government bureaucracy - cutting or adding to budgets, urging civil servants to become more entrepreneurial, hiring tougher managers, or appointing smarter bureaucrats - won't provide substantial, long-term improvement.

Brandl believes that government policy generally fails because public servants and private citizens, through influence or power, frustrate public purposes by gaining benefits for themselves at the expense of others. Highlighting the chronic problems of low productivity, absence of improvement, and exorbitant costs in education and other state-run programs, he calls for governments to abandon old, disproved theories for reform.

Brandl provides a menu of alternative policies that rely on both harnessing self-interest through competition and encouraging affiliations that inspire a spirit of community to forge a strong connection between spending and results.

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Brookings Institution Press
Language
English
Pages
177

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State governments
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Money and good intentions are not enough, or, Why a liberal democrat thinks states need both competition and community
1998, Brookings Institution Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
What state governments do now and will do in the future
Do state taxpayers get their money's worth?
Why state governments are unacceptably ineffective
Toward state government that works : systematic alignment of
Private and public purposes
Beyond incentives : community as policy
Choice and community : policies for the states.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-172) and index.

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Washington, D.C
Other Titles
Money and good intentions are not enough, Why a liberal democrat thinks states need both competition and community

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Dewey Decimal Class
321.02/3/0973
Library of Congress
JK2443 .B77 1998, JK2443.B77 1998

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x, 177 p. ;
Number of pages
177

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OL697750M
Internet Archive
moneygoodintenti00bran
ISBN 10
0815710607, 0815710593
LCCN
97045313
OCLC/WorldCat
37935185
Library Thing
8926729
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2582847
4673138

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