PROMOTING the General Welfare :  new perspectives on government performance 

 - Washington :  The Brookings Institution,  2006 
 - 344 p. 
<br/><br/> Part I. Introduction  1. Government performance: missing opportunities to solve problems - Alan S. Gerber e Eric M. Patashnik  2. Policy analysis in representative democracy - David |L. Weimer e Aidan R. Vining  Part II. Documenting government performance failures  3. Sham surgery: the problem of inadequate medical evidence - Alan S. Gerber e Eric M. Patashnik  4. Urban transportation - Clifford Winston  5. Achieving fundamental housing policy reform - Edgard O. Olsen  6. Fixing special education - Jay P. Greene  Part III. New tools for problem solving  7. Decision markets for policy advice - Robin Hanson  8. An experimental basis for public policy initiatives - Charles A. Holt, William M. Shobe e Angela M. Smith  Part IV. Political institutions as problem solvers?  9. Can congress serve the general welfare? - Sarah A. Binder  10. Congress as problem solver - David R. Mayhew  11. Parties as problem solvers - Morris P. Fiorina  12. Taking the brandeis metaphor seriously: policy experimentation within a federal system - Mark Carl Rom  13. The states as a laboratory: legal innovation and state competition for corporate charters - Roberta Romano  Part V. Conclusion  14. Two perspectives on governmental underperformance - Eugene Bardach  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0815731205 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bem Estar Social<br/>Política de Governo<br/>Política Pública<br/>Democracia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Estados Unidos