Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (85 page)

Glazer, Amihai,
186

Glendon, Mary Ann,
104
–
5

Goldman Sachs,
220
,
393

Gore, Al,
197
,
386

Government Accountability Office,
23
,
168
,
191
,
194
,
225
,
233
,
251
,
264
,
354
,
381

government intervention, evolution of.
See
“New System” and “Old System”
;
size of government

Government Performance and Results Act,
170

government shutdown,
4

government-sponsored enterprises,
80
,
151
.
See also
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
;
Sallie Mae

Grand Canyon,
280

Greeley, Horace,
332

gun control,
85
,
165
–
66

Haidt, Jonathan,
159

Hart-Cellar Act of 1965,
181
,
350
.
See also
Immigration Act of 1965

Haskins, Ron,
356

Hatch Act,
106

Hayek, Friedrich,
167
–
68
,
171

Head Start,
60
,
170
–
71
,
264
,
361
.
See also
education

health care,
205
,
391
; spending on,
17
.
See also
Medicaid
;
Medicare

Heckman, James,
170
,
265

Heclo, Hugh,
316
–
17

Heritage Foundation,
23

heuristics and biases,
157
,
159
,
168

Higher Education Act of 1965,
260

Highway Trust Fund,
342
–
43

Homestead Act of 1862,
331
–
35
,
363

Housing Commission of the Bipartisan Policy Center,
384

Howard, Philip,
77
,
405

Hoxby, Caroline,
395

Human Genome Project,
362

Hurricane Sandy,
140
,
383
; legislation,
143
; losses,
144

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996,
298

immigration,
1
,
114
,
122
,
181
,
195
,
243
,
294
,
350
–
53
; legal immigration,
351
–
52
; illegal immigration
352
–
53

Immigration Act of 1965,
328
,
350
–
53
,
365
.
See also
Hart Cellar Act

impacted aid program,
180

implementation,
33
,
229
–
76
,
400
–
402

Improper Payments Information Act of 2002,
193

incentives,
127
,
128
–
154
,
382
–
89

incredibility of policy,
182
–
90
; “primary ignorance” of,
182
.
See also
credibility of policy

“Incrementalism,”
34
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35

Individual Retirement Accounts,
258

individual rights,
102
–
10
; “rights talk,”
104
–
5

inequality, social and economic,
11
,
27
,
31
,
92
,
107
,
110
–
13
,
164
,
340
,
356
,
375

inflexibility of policy,
32
,
172
–
82
; antifragibility,
172

information,
127
,
161
–
72
,
391
–
96
; externalities of,
22
; inequalities of,
23

infrastructure,
11
,
219
,
230
,
247
,
305
,
331
,
343
,
364
,
387

insurance programs,
81

intellectual property,
161
,
361
–
62
,
394
–
95
,
397

interest groups,
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8
,
16
,
24
,
50
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75
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87
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92
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10
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39
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156
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172
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17
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32
,
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–
4
,
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,
377
,
382
–
84
,
397
–
99
; pluralism of,
105
–
10

Internal Revenue Code,
176
,
283

Internal Revenue Service,
226
,
253
,
294
,
343
,
354

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887,
241

Interstate Highway System,
328
,
341
–
43
; Good Roads Movement,
342
; National Road,
342
; New Deal and,
342

“invisible victims,”
55

irrationality of policy,
154
–
60
,
389
–
91
; “primary ignorance” and,
182

Jackson, Robert H.,
296

Jaffee, Dwight,
141
,
202
,
384
–
85

Johnson, Lyndon,
173
,
385

Johnson, Samuel,
297

Jolls, Christine,
100
–
101
,
256
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57

Jones Act of 1920.
See
Merchant Marine Act of 1920

judges.
See
courts

Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012,
214

Kagan, Robert,
104
,
314

Kahan, Dan,
158
–
59

Kahn, Alfred,
133
,
355

Kahneman, Daniel,
157
,
158

Kant, Immanuel,
26
,
280

Katznelson, Ira,
340

Kelman, Steve,
16
,
25
,
44
,
129
,
164
,
196
–
97

Kennedy School of Government,
320