What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality by Page, Benjamin I.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226644813)

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What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality by Page, Benjamin I.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality

$34.00
What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality by Page, Benjamin I.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality

$34.00
Format: Hardcover
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It is often said that the federal government cannot or should not attempt to address America's problems of poverty and inequality--because its bureaucracy is wasteful or its programs ineffective. But is this true? In this book, Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons examine a number of federal and local programs, detailing what government action already does for its citizens and assessing how efficient it is at solving the problems it seeks to address. Their conclusion, surprisingly, is the polar opposite of the prevailing rhetoric--What Government Can Do is an insightful and compelling argument that it both can and should do more.


Author: Benjamin I. Page,James R. Simmons
ISBN-10: 0226644812
ISBN-13: 9780226644813
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 409
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.32w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2000 pg. 1175
Library Journal 10/01/2000 pg. 126
Commonweal 02/23/2001 pg. 22
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1693
By Benjamin I. Page
By Benjamin I. Page
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Benjamin I. Page is the Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is author or coauthor of seven books, including Who Gets What from Government, The Rational Public, and Who Deliberates?, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press.

James R. Simmons is a professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He also directs the Public Administration Program there and has written extensively on public policy issues.

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