The Trouble with Government

Derek Bok

    Introduction

    PART I: Is Anything Wrong?

    1. Is America on the Wrong Track?

    2. The Role of Government

    PART II: Looking for Reasons

    3. The Usual Suspects

    4. What Do We Need to Explain?

    5. Why Legislation Is Often Badly Designed

    6. Why Regulation Makes So Many People Angry

    7. Why Working People and the Poor Do Badly

    PART III: Remedies

    8. Bringing Government Closer to the People

    9. Reforming Bureaucracy

    10. Campaign Finance Reform

    11. Toward More Coherent Legislation

    12. Improving Regulation

    13. Engaging Citizens of Modest Means

    PART IV: The Role of the People

    14. How Much Influence Do Citizens Have?

    15. How Capable Are Americans of Self-Government?

    16. The Ambitions and Realities of Civic Participation

    17. Building Citizenship

    Notes

    Index

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Derek C. Bok is President Emeritus and Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University.