Inside job how government insiders subvert the public interest
National decline is typically blamed on special interests from the demand side of politics corrupting a country's institutions. The usual demand-side suspects include crony capitalists, consumer activists, economic elites, and labor unions. Less attention is given to government insiders on the...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Government for the people?; 2. Why worry about government insiders and their profits?; 3. How do government insiders profit at the public's expense?; 4. What do government insiders stand to gain?; 5. What factors curb hijacking by government insiders?; 6. Why are government insiders so hard to control?; 7. Where and when has the state been co-opted from within?; 8. Government insiders: a day of reckoning for China?; 9. Government insiders: a day of reckoning for the US?; 10. How can we form a more perfect union?; Bibliography; Index