Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (82 page)

“American Dream,”
199
,
260

“American exceptionalism,”
19

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
153
–
54

Ansolabehere, Stephen,
218

antitrust,
79
,
209
,
241
,
302

“apartisan voters,”
88

Arrow, Kenneth,
151
,
156

Arthur Andersen,
222

Ayres, Ian,
392
,
400

Babcock, Bruce,
144

“bad bets,”
40
,
145
,
259
,
383
,
389

Bai, Matt,
218

Bailey, Elizabeth,
355

bailouts: of General Motors,
60
,
108
,
184
; of American International Group,
60
,
184

Bardach, Eugene,
314

Bartels, Larry,
156
–
57

Base Realignment and Closure Commission,
77

Bay Area Rapid Transit,
233
,
249

Becker, Craig,
222

“behavioral law and economics,”
100
,
204
,
211
,
247
,
254
–
56
,
306
,
366
–
68
,
404

Berlin, Isaiah,
84
,
100

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002,
218

Bittker, Boris,
402

Bloomberg, Michael,
393

Boeing,
398

Bok, Derek,
63
,
365
,
373

Brady, Henry,
113

Brandeis, Louis,
116

Breaux-Thomas Medicare Commission,
78

Breyer, Stephen,
53
,
119
,
133
,
289
,
355

Bridgeland, John,
20

Brookings Institution,
22
,
23
,
154
,
171
,
182
,
197
,
337
,
356

Brooks, Arthur,
112
,
203

Brooks, David,
15

Brown v. Board of Education
,
296
,
368

Brownlow Commission,
197

Budget Control Act of 2011,
174

budget policy,
10
,
16
,
17
,
20
,
24
,
54
,
56
,
68
,
71
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81
,
117
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127
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130
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135
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138
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151
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52
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155
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163
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216
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223
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254
,
302
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3
,
316
,
357
,
391
,
397
–
98
; and “fiscal cliff,”
188
; politics of,
378

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,
166
,
315

Bureau of Labor Statistics,
319

Bureau of Prisons,
308

Bureau of Public Roads,
342

bureaucracy,
16
,
33
,
60
,
94
,
102
,
130
,
191
,
204
,
307
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26
,
406
–
7
; administration of,
80
; basic facts of,
308
; “capture” of,
109
–
10
,
153
,
215
; contracting out by,
324
–
25
; decline of,
315
; discretion by,
297
–
98
,
308
; hostility toward,
311
; incentives of,
197
; “iron triangle” effect on,
215
; isolation of,
326
; organizational analysis of,
59
; private sector,
311
; recruitment by,
320

Burtless, Gary,
356

Bush, George W.,
185
,
242
–
43
; expansion of bureaucracy under,
317

“Cadillac plans” in health insurance,
258
–
59

Cain, Bruce,
379

California Environmental Quality Act,
303

campaign finance,
8
,
17
,
113
,
218
,
220
; regulation of,
34
–
35
; SuperPACs and,
87

Canada,
115
,
181

Caplan, Bryan,
159
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60

Carter, Jimmy,
6
,
36
,
218
,
315
355

Catholic charities,
123

Cato Institute,
23

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities,
344

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
11
,
329

CERN,
133

charity,
112
,
122
–
23

Chatterji, Aaron,
282

Chevron
test (
Chevron USA v. National Resources Defense Council
),
292

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
,
217
–
18
,
220

Citizenship and Immigration Services,
194

Civil Aeronautics Board,
354

Civil Rights Act of 1964,
329

civil service.
See
bureaucracy

civil society,
2
,
121
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24

class actions,
223
,
302

Clean Air Act of 1970,
246
,
276

Clean Development Mechanism,
275

Clinton, Bill,
155
,
163
,
319
,
386

Cohen, Lizabeth,
340

collective action,
136
–
37
,
139
; impediments to,
136

command-and-control,
55
,
162
,
273
–
74
,
276

Community Reinvestment Act of 1977,
270

competition,
201
–
6
; for administrative talent,
204
; global,
11
; for participants,
201
–
4
; for performance,
205
–
6
; for reputation,
206

complexity: advantages to,
293
; consequences of,
289
; definition of,
282
; indeterminacy and,
283
; Medicare program and,
195
; of public law,
285
–
9
; technical rules and,
283