Can Government Do Anything Right?

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2151-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that politicians are distrusted and government is derided as a sprawling, wasteful mess. But what exactly is government supposed to do, and is the track record of Western governments really so awful?

In this compelling book, leading scholar of public policy and management, Alasdair Roberts, explores what government does well and what it does badly. Political leaders, he explains, have always been obliged to wrestle with shifting circumstances and contending priorities, making the job of governing extraordinarily difficult. The performance of western democracies in recent decades is, admittedly, far from perfect but - as Roberts ably shows - it is also much better than you might think.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Alasdair

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. WHY IS EVERYONE SO ANGRY?

2. THE LONG PEACE

3. THE RIGHT TO RULE

4. TAMING THE ECONOMY

5. BATTLE OF THE BULGE

6. HARD CHOICES AHEAD

7. PERESTROIKA

FURTHER READING

NOTES

Über Autor(innen)

Alasdair Roberts is the Director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.