Higher Goals for America: Doing Better Than the Best

Product Description
The purpose of this book is to bring together a number of ideas that relate to the analysis of public policy issues for the presidential campaigns of 1988. These issues are also relevant to 1992 and thereafter since the emphasis is on long-term concerns. The book is organized in terms of the need for higher goals for America, incentives for achieving higher goals, improving American constitutional effectiveness, coordinating the public and private sectors and public policy substance methods. Beginning with goals on a high level of generality or applicability, the author then discusses middle range means for achieving them, with an emphasis on economic incentives, political structures, and legal rules. Specific policy problems and systematic methods for analyzing them are also included. One important feature of this book is that it is concerned with issues relevant to the presidential campaigns of Democrats and Republicans, or liberals and conservatives within the political parties. Contains charts and tables.
Review
In a decade of confidence gaps and lowered expectations, we can only welcome a book that is optimistic about the capacity of government to do better and is practical about what must be done and how to go about doing it. -- Theodore Lowi, Cornell University, former president of the Policy Studies Organization ―
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...would be a useful text for teachers in public policy courses. ―
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...would be a useful text for teachers in public policy courses. ―
Perspective


In a decade of confidence gaps and lowered expectations, we can only welcome a book that is optimistic about the capacity of government to do better and is practical about what must be done and how to go about doing it. -- Theodore Lowi, Cornell University, former president of the Policy Studies Organization ―
Perspective
About the Author
Stuart S. Nagel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois.