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Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. Government Performance: Missing Opportunities to Solve Problems - by Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik
2. Policy Analysis in Representative Democracy - by David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining
Part II. Documenting Government Performance Failures
3. Sham Surgery: The Problem of Inadequate Medical Evidence - by Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik
4. Urban Transportation - by Clifford Winston
5. Achieving Fundamental Housing Policy Reform - by Edgar O. Olsen
6. Fixing Special Education - by Jay P. Greene
Part III. New Tools for Problem Solving
7. Decision Markets for Policy Advice - by Robin Hanson
8. An Experimental Basis for Public Policy Initiatives - by Charles A. Holt, William B. Shobe, and Angela M. Smith
PART IV. Political Institutions as Problem Solvers?
9. Can Congress Serve the General Welfare? - by Sarah A. Binder
10. Congress as Problem Solver - by David R. Mayhew
11. Parties as Problem Solvers - by Morris P. Fiorina
12. Taking the Brandeis Metaphor Seriously: Policy Experimentation within the Federal System - by Mark Carl Rom
13. The States as a Laboratory: Legal Innovation and State Competition for Corporate Charters - by Roberta Romano
Part V. Conclusion
14. Two Perspectives on Government Underperformance - by Eugene Bardach
Contributors
Index
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Elizabeth Teed
reviewed Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance on December 26, 2020
Promoting the General Welfare
This book is a complete waste of time. Like Todd's excellent reviews mentions, it's basically a masturbatory exercise for the literary class on one of their favorite topics - how stupid people who disagree with them are.
The basic argument is that Conservatives abandoned Tanenhaus's interpretation of Edmund Burke, and so modern Conservatives aren't really Conservatives. This is because modern Conservatives (i.e. not of the vein Tanenhaus likes) don't believe government should grow and do too much for its citizens. Therefore, since Conservatives don't accept what Liberals and Tanenhaus believe, they're completely detached from reality, only concerned with ideology, and have nothing to offer America.
Seriously. The book is then filled in with cherry picked examples of how Liberals are so pragmatic and intelligent in adapting to the times while conservatives are blabbering racists. The book offers absolutely nothing of substance to the political debate. Tanenhaus doesn't demonstrate even a basic understanding of economic issues or anything except copious quoting and name dropping. It's a one sided rewriting of history, and Tanenhaus should be embarassed by the intellectual immaturity on display.
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