Government's End
Subtitle: Why Washington Stopped Working
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781891620492
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; U.S. - Contemporary Politics; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Pressure groups; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; History & Theory - General; politics; history; United States; Political; Entitlement spending; Government spending policy; Politics and government
First sentence: BETWEEN the time when the results became clear and the moment when the new president-elect emerged to acknowledge his victory, two long hours passed.
Description: "Jonathan Rauch exposes precisely why our government has lost the ability to make things work. Government's End - extensively revised and rethought since its first publication as Demosclerosis - explains the insidious forces that have gradually made Washington dysfunctional. And it shows how twenty years of reform efforts went awry."--BOOK JACKET.