A Half-century of Government Spending
Author | : John S. Sinclair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John S. Sinclair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Morris Beck |
Publisher | : New York, N.Y. : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Josef Joffe |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0871404494 |
"While it may be catnip for the media to play up America as a has-been, Josef Joffe, a ... German commentator and Stanford University academic, [proposes] that Declinism is not a cold-eyed diagnosis but a device in the style of the ancient prophets ... Gloom is a prophecy that must be believed so that it will turn out wrong. Joffe [posits that] 'economic miracles' that propelled the rising tide of challengers flounder against their own limits. Hardly confined to Europe alone, Declinism has also been an especially nifty career builder for American politicians, among them Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan, who all rode into the White House by hawking 'the end is near'"--Dust jacket flap.
Author | : Paul C. Light |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815716370 |
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.
Author | : New York (State). Division of the Budget |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Morris Janowitz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780226393070 |
The Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The expanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political self-interest. At the same time, complex economic and defense problems also strain an already overburdened legislative system, making effective, responsive political rule increasingly difficult. Janowitz concludes by assessing the response of the social sciences to the pressing problem of social control and asserts that new forms of citizen participation in the government must be found.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Business cycles |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard K. Vedder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. President |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Reports for 2002- include: The Annual report of the Council of Economic Advisers.