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- Book Title
- The Government Taketh Away
- Publication Name
- Government Taketh Away : the Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada
- Title
- The Government Taketh Away
- Subtitle
- The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada
- Contributor
- Leslie A. Pal (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0878409025
- EAN
- 9780878409020
- ISBN
- 9780878409020
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Release Year
- 2003
- Release Date
- 01/04/2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 254mm
- Item Length
- 10in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Series
- American Governance and Public Policy Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 7in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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. The Government Taketh Away examines the repercussions of unpopular government decisions in Canada and the United States, the two great democratic nations of North America. Pal, Weaver, and their contributors compare the capacities of the U.S. presidential system and the Canadian Westminster system to impose different types of losses: symbolic losses (gun control and abortion), geographically concentrated losses (military base closings and nuclear waste disposal), geographically dispersed losses (cuts to pensions and to health care), and losses imposed on business (telecommunications deregulation and tobacco control). Theory holds that Westminster-style systems should, all things being equal, have a comparative advantage in loss imposition because they concentrate power and authority, though this can make it easier to pin blame on politicians too. The empirical findings of the cases in this book paint a more complex picture. Westminster systems do appear to have some robust abilities to impose losses, and US institutions provide more opportunities for loss-avoiders to resist government policy in some sectors. But in most sectors, outcomes in the two countries are strikingly similar. The Government Taketh Away is essential for the scholar and students of public policy or comparative policy. It is also an important book for the average citizen who wants to know more about the complexities of living in a democratic society where the government can give-but how it can also, sometimes painfully, "taketh away."
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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
ISBN-10
0878409025
ISBN-13
9780878409020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2414175
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Government Taketh Away : the Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Series
American Governance and Public Policy Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Jk271.G722 2003
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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A remarkable volume . . . First, the contributions contained within it are uniformly admirable as scholarship without being cursed with the obscurantist and obsequious lingo that too often renders such tomes either impenetrable or unappealing to the attentive and intelligent public. Second, they provide genuinely informative and compelling explanations of why public policy works (or doesn't work) the way it does. Finally, by giving sufficient detail about selected policy areas to make them intelligible, and then by adding informed reflections and cogent conclusions, they provide citizens, public officials and politicians with the intellectual tools necessary to comprehend problems that may be only apparently insoluble., "A remarkable volume... First, the contributions contained within it are uniformly admirable as scholarship without being cursed with the obscurantist and obsequious lingo that too often renders such tomes either impenetrable or unappealing to the attentive and intelligent public. Second, they provide genuinely informative and compelling explanations of why public policy works (or doesn't work) the way it does. Finally, by giving sufficient detail about selected policy areas to make them intelligible, and then by adding informed reflections and cogent conclusions, they provide citizens, public officials and politicians with the intellectual tools necessary to comprehend problems that may be only apparently insoluble." -- The Innovation Journal
Table of Content
Preface 1. The Politics of Pain Leslie A. Pal and R. Kent Weaver 2. Cutting Old-Age Pensions R. Kent Weaver 3. Controlling Health Care Costs for the Aged Carolyn Hughes Tuohy 4. Telecommunications Deregulation Richard J. Schultz and Andrew Rich 5. Tobacco Control Donley T. Studlar 6. Closing Military Bases Lilly J. Goren and P. Whitney Lackenbauer 7. Siting Nuclear Waste Barry G. Rabe 8. Gun Control Leslie A. Pal 9. Abortion Raymond Tatalovich 10. Conclusions Leslie A. Pal and R. Kent Weaver
Copyright Date
2003
Topic
Public Policy / General, World / Canadian, Comparative Politics, American Government / General
Lccn
2002-014713
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Political Science
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