CHAPTER 13. Conclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: The Context of Policy Making
6. CHAPTER 2. Success, Failure, and In Between 39
7. CHAPTER 3. Policy-Making Functions, Processes, Missions, Instruments, and Institutions 64
8. CHAPTER 4. The Political Culture of Policy Making 91
9. Part 2: The Structural Sources of Policy Failure
10. CHAPTER 5. Incentives and Collective Irrationality 127
11. CHAPTER 6. Information, Inflexibility, Incredibility, and Mismanagement 161
12. CHAPTER 7. Markets 198
13. CHAPTER 8. Implementation 229
14. CHAPTER 9. The Limits of Law 277
15. CHAPTER 10. The Bureaucracy 307
16. CHAPTER 11. Policy Successes 327
17. Part 3: Remedies and Reprise
18. CHAPTER 12. Remedies: Lowering Government’s Failure Rate 371
19. CHAPTER 13. Conclusion 408
20. Note 413
21. Index 463