Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability

by Paul C. Light

Book Overview

Government is under enormous pressure to change. Call it reinventing, reengineering, or plain old change, but the mandate remains the same: produce more with less, and satisfy the customer while doing it. Yet, successful reform must involve more than exhortation and slogans. Paul Light argues that a failure to pay attention to the thickening of government over the past half century may doom any reinventing effort. The federal government has never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815752490
• ISBN13: 9780815752493
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"