Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds
by Milton J. Esman
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"Government Works includes a historical study of public attitudes toward government and an analysis of the functions that only government can perform to ensure a healthy future for the American people and to check the negative effects of economic globalization. Esman proposes a set of political tactics to address the unchallenged trashing of a central institution of American democracy and to restore public confidence in government."--Jacket. "What is the proper role of government in American show more life? This is the principal controversy in contemporary American politics. While most Americans today proclaim they do not trust Washington, Milton J. Esman believes that the United States suffers not from too much government but from too little. Esman shows how American conservatives have, for the last quarter-century, hammered away at the federal government, attacking its size, its inefficiencies, the limits it places on personal freedom, and its intervention in what they believe should be free and untrammeled market transactions. Their antigovernment viewpoint dominates the current public discourse on politics." show lessTags
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Milton J. Esman is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Cornell. His research focuses on public administration in developing countries and the politics involved in ethnic pluralism. He is the author of ten books and of numerous articles.
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 320.52 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies Conservatism
- LCC
- JK468 .P64 .E75 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States Government. Public administration
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