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1 online resource (ix, 151 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Chicago studies in American politics
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Chicago studies in American politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-144) and index. |
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A return to realism -- Markets and policy: from pragmatic realism to dogmatic utopianism -- Cycles of reform: formulation and ratification of market utopianism -- Cycles of reform: institutional reality and the dystopia of markets -- The democratic disconnect and the growth of government -- Pragmatic policy in the marketplace of ideas. |
| Summary |
Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration, and demands on government have continued to grow. Why? Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs show that conservative efforts to expand markets and shrink government often have the ironic effect of expanding government's reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules and regulations. Dismantling the flawed reasoning behind these attempts to cast markets and public power in opposing roles, The Private Abuse o. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public administration -- United States.
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Public administration. |
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United States. |
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Social service -- Contracting out -- United States.
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Social service -- Contracting out. |
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Public welfare -- Contracting out -- United States.
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Public welfare -- Contracting out. |
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United States -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Public-private sector cooperation -- United States.
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Public-private sector cooperation. |
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Electronic books.
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Jacobs, Lawrence R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Lawrence D. (Lawrence David), 1947- Private abuse of the public interest. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226076423 0226076423 (DLC) 2008013578 (OCoLC)214935085 |
| ISBN |
9780226076454 (electronic book) |
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0226076458 (electronic book) |
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9780226076423 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226076423 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226076430 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226076431 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
