Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America

Autor:	Morton Keller
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject Direct democracy Public policy Public administration Ideal (ethics) Democracy Policy studies State (polity) Political science Polity media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Policy History. 20:177-189
ISSN:	1528-4190 0898-0306
DOI:	10.1353/jph.0.0002
Popis:	Each stage of our national development has had a distinctive form of public policy. And each has faced a core tension between the dictates of governance and the constraints of democracy. Economic or social interests, and advantage-seeking politicians, forge policies. Countervailing interests, or changing times, or the limits of state capacity see to it that those policies rarely if ever live up to the expectations of their progenitors. But then no one ever said that the American polity, to say nothing of its democratic ideal, is a neat or orderly thing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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