From Red Tape to Results
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 0788106937
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 0788106937
Author : Al Gore
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category :
ISBN : 0788139088
Author : National Performance Review (U.S.)
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Discusses how government now costs less and works better.
Author : Mr.J. D. Craig
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 1998-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 155775697X
Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.
Author : Robert E. Klitgaard
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833036629
Improving how our government works is urgent business for America. In this book experts from the RAND corporation provide practical ways for government to reorganize and restructure, enhance leadership, and create flexible, performance-driven agencies.
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1568066937
Author : Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146685314X
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Author : Philip K. Howard
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812982746
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.
Author : Paul Charles Light
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815752660
In this book-- the first that attempts to establish firm estimates of the shadow work force-- Paul C. Light explores the reasons why the official size of the federal government has remained so small while the shadow of government has grown so large.
Author : Alan Weil
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877667162
The balance between state and federal health care financing for low-income people has been a matter of considerable debate for the last 40 years. Some argue for a greater federal role, others for more devolution of responsibility to the states. Medicaid, the backbone of the system, has been plagued by an array of problems that have made it unpopular and difficult to use to extend health care coverage. In recent years, waivers have given the states the flexibility to change many features of their Medicaid programs; moreover, the states have considerable flexibility to in establishing State Children's Health Insurance Programs. This book examines the record on the changing health safety net. How well have states done in providing acute and long-term care services to low-income populations? How have they responded to financial incentives and federal regulatory requirements? How innovative have they been? Contributing authors include Donald J. Boyd, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Teresa A. Coughlin, Ian Hill, Michael Housman, Robert E. Hurley, Marilyn Moon, Mary Beth Pohl, Jane Tilly, and Stephen Zuckerman.