Donahue shows that shifting power toward the states will do much less than advocates promise to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation--and much more than they admit to undercut national interests and corrode America's sense of commonwealth. Addressing controversial topics as diverse as welfare reform, school funding, legalized gambling, and interstate bidding for business investment, he weaves a coherent case that isolated action by competitive state governments, not excessive centralization, poses the graver threat to ...
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Donahue shows that shifting power toward the states will do much less than advocates promise to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation--and much more than they admit to undercut national interests and corrode America's sense of commonwealth. Addressing controversial topics as diverse as welfare reform, school funding, legalized gambling, and interstate bidding for business investment, he weaves a coherent case that isolated action by competitive state governments, not excessive centralization, poses the graver threat to Americans' most cherished goals.
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Very good, very good. 24 cm, 256, illus., publisher's letter to John Judis of The New Republic laid in. The author argues that shifting power toward the states will do much less than advocates promise to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation--and much more than they admit to undercut national interests and corrode America's sense of commonwealth.
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Very good condition in very good jacket. 256 pages, figures, appendix, notes, index. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. The author argues that shifting power toward the states will do much less than advocates promise to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation--and much more than they admit to undercut national interests and corrode America's sense of commonwealth.
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Very Good. Very Good Ships From Canada Very good in new dust jacket Stamp on 3rd page and on the outside borders of the book Sewn binding Paper over boards 288 p Audience: General/trade From Library Journal Donahue, a former assistant labor secretary in the Clinton administration, analyzes the current trend of dismantling federal programs in favor of block grants and policy setting at the state level While agreeing with advocates that state management of the programs could serve as the impetus for reform, he warns against simply turning them over with little oversight Presenting a strong case for concern about the varying degree to which individual states can deal with the growing demands for economic resources, Donahue worries that states could find themselves unable to take care of the poor and disenfranchised if there was a serious economic downturn While well researched, with an extensive, detailed bibliography, his book lacks specific examples of state and local programs with successful resul.
