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The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
Harvard University Press
June 2008
On Sale: May 21, 2008
288 pages ISBN: 0674028082 EAN: 9780674028081 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The federal government is having increasing difficulty
faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander
Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This
book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes,
and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the
federal government. Employing Hamilton’s seven measures of
an energetic federal service, Paul Light shows how the
government is wanting in each measure. After assessing the federal report card, Light offers a
comprehensive agenda for reform, including new laws limiting
the number of political appointees, reducing the layers of
government management, reducing the size of government as
its baby-boom employees retire, revitalizing the federal
career, and reducing the heavy outsourcing of federal work.
Although there are many ways to fix each of the seven
problems with government, only a comprehensive agenda will
bring the kind of reform needed to reverse the overall
erosion of the capacity to faithfully execute all the laws.
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