Government Taketh Away - The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada

Informationen zum Autor Leslie A. Pal is professor and director, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. R. Kent Weaver is professor of public policy and government at Georgetown University; senior fellow in Governmental Studies at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; and the coeditor of Do Institutions Matter? Klappentext Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. At other times they involve the imposition of some type of loss-a program cut, increased taxes, or new regulatory standards. Citizens will resist such impositions if they can, or will try to punish governments at election time. The dynamics of loss imposition are therefore a universal-if unpleasant-element of democratic governance. Zusammenfassung Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. This work examines the repercussions of unpopular government decisions in Canada and the USA! the two great democratic nations of North America.

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• Authors: Beverly R. David, Leslie A. Pal, Leslie A. Weaver Pal, Leslie Alexander (EDT)/ Weaver Pal, PAL LESLIE A WEAVER R KENT
• Assisted by: Leslie A Pal (Editor), Leslie A. Pal (Editor), Barry Rabe (Editor), R Kent Weaver (Editor), R. Kent Weaver (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780878409013
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-901-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 267 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series; American Governance and Public; American Governance and Public Policy series; American Governance and Public
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education