Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making
In: Economy, Polity, and Society Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction -- Overview of the Book -- Part I: Education Policy -- Part II: Federal Policy -- Part III: International Policy -- Part IV: Public Governance -- Part V: Environmental Policy -- Part VI: Technology Policy -- References -- Part I: Education Policy -- Chapter 1: Rise of a Centropoly: Good Intentions, Distorted Incentives, and the Cloaked Costs of Top-Down Reform in U.S. Public Education -- "Exigencies of an Earlier Era": Formation of the U.S. School System and the Dawn of the Centropoly -- The Early Influences: Religions, Wars, and the Beginning of a Centralized Structure -- Centripetal Forces Appear: Uniformity and the Power of Progressive Ideas -- Centropoly, Segregation, and Systematic Inequity -- Dysfunctional Reform for the Disadvantaged: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) -- The Original Act and Its Amendments -- No Child Left Behind Act: ESEA Change in Federal Intervention -- ESEA: Connections to Government Growth and Centralization -- The Educational Condition of Disadvantaged Students -- Why the ESEA Reforms Failed: A Public Choice Explanation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Group Identity and Unintended Consequences of School Desegregation -- Literature Review -- Modeling the Policy -- Little Rock Central High School -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Federal Policy -- Chapter 3: Compensating the Innocent: Hayekian Considerations for Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statutes -- Wrongful Convictions and Hayek -- Arguments for and against Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statutes -- Types of Compensation Schemes for the Wrongfully Convicted -- Hayek Discussion: Individual Responsibility, the "Knowledge" Problem, and Collective versus General Interests.