When bad policy makes good politics: running the numbers on health reform
In: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
In: Studies in postwar American political development
Since the 1960s, America's policymaking system has lurched from one in which leaders could simply disparage the concept of budget projections to one in which policymakers manipulate cost estimates. After rounds of good government reforms, the very rules and safeguards put in place to thwart economically unsound legislation now cause chaos by incentivizing the development of flawed, even blatantly unworkable, policies. This work examines this topic.
In: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
In: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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