Promoting the General Welfare New Perspectives on Government Performance

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