The End of Government-- as We Know it: Making Public Policy Work

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Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007 - Business & Economics - 157 pages
Kamarck suggests that, in addition to working out what to do, today's government leaders face an unprecedented number of options when it comes to how to do things. The challenge will be to chose an implementation mode, match it to policy problems and manage it.

Contents

Matching Means to Ends
21
Democratic Accountability
39
The Problem with the Bureaucratic Instinct
45
The Reinvented Public Sector
79
Government by Network
109
Government by Market
140
Selected Bibliography
147
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About the author (2007)

Elaine C. Kamarck is lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she was a senior policy adviser to the Clinton administration and a political columnist for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is coeditor, with Joseph S. Nye, Jr., of Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age.

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