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Introduction -- Public policy success: What constitutes a successful sale?- Rhetoric: Not just what is said, but also who says it and how -- Heresthetic: The craft of political manipulation -- Blame avoidance and weapons of mass-expertisation -- Evidence: Extraordinary claims require careful presentation of evidence -- Ethics: Right and wrong can be contestable -- Case studies -- Selling public policy in practice: Fiscal and monetary stimulus success?- Selling public policy in practice: Failure in Ukraine?- One more lesson and the future of selling public policy.

Professor Drews latest work makes the case that even great public policy needs to be deliberately and strategically sold in order for it to ultimately be considered a success. However, it seems that most people charged with the task of selling public policy simply do not have the requisite skills to do so. Selling public policy is an art that draws on disparate strands of scholarship spanning the political sciences, economics, sociology, ethics and the classics. To perform the art of selling public policy one must first master the lessons from the greats in the field. Following this, it is necessary to learn how to apply the knowledge to real-world complex scenarios in such a way that the policy is indeed sold and stays sold over the implied returns period. This book is unique in the corpus of scholarly literature because it provides both the knowledge and real-world case studies required for students, scholars, and policy practitioners to master the art of selling public policy.

Chapter 1. Natural Law and Government, or, After the (COVID) Revolution? -- Chapter 2. Human Flourishing -- Chapter 3. Moral Government -- Chapter 4. Sortition – A Partial Defence of Human Dignity -- Chapter 5. Structure, Remit, and Size of Government -- Chapter 6. Evaluating Policy Success: COVID Response and Human Flourishing -- Chapter 7. Funding Moral Government Chapter 8. Education -- Chapter 9. Can We Have Government and Human Flourishing?

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Saving Local Government: Financial Sustainability in a Challenging World -- Why Save Local Government? -- Why I Wrote This Book -- Background -- Kal Vahomer and Personal Budgets -- A Health Metaphor and Outline of Book -- Using This Book as a Manual -- My Hope -- References -- Chapter 2: Principles of Local Government Health -- Introduction -- Natural Law and Local Government -- The Wherefore of Local Government -- The Decentralisation Theorem -- The Principle of Subsidiarity -- Principle of Double Effect -- Prescription and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Evaluating Public Policy Interventions -- Introduction -- Three Lenses Through Which to View Success -- An Epistemology of Success -- A Moral Lens for Evaluating Success -- Prescription and Conclusion -- Concluding Comments for Part I -- References -- Chapter 4: Local Government Amalgamations -- Introduction -- Key Theoretical Concepts Associated with Amalgamation -- Economies of Scale -- Principle of Double Effect and Local Government Amalgamation -- Why Amalgamations Often Fail to Live Up to Expectations -- Shoddy Consultants -- Sham Stakeholder Consultations -- Unplanned and Under-Stated Expenses -- Poor Post-implementation Planning -- The Special Case of Rural Local Government -- Alternatives to Radical Surgery -- Conclusion and Prescriptions -- References -- Chapter 5: Local Government De-Amalgamation and Boundary Reduction -- Introduction -- Key Theoretical Concepts Associated with De-Amalgamation and Boundary Reductions -- Planning an Efficacious Separation - A Detailed Template -- Assessing the Patient -- Detailing the Costs and Savings Associated with De-Amalgamation -- The Moral Dimension of De-Amalgamation -- The Transition Manager as Instantiation of Moral Consideration -- Other (People) Matters -- Post-separation Care.

Preliminary Material --Introduction /Joseph Drew --Federalism in Europe: History and Future Options /Maiken Umbach --From Dialectics to Political Theology: Rethinking Complexity in Federalism /Isabel David --The Democratic Principle as an Organisational Basis of the European Union /Xenophon Contiades --The European Union's Institutional System as the Basis for a New Form of Democracy /Fausto Capelli --Incorporating the Principle of Co-Equal Branches into the European Constitution: Lessons to be Learned from the United States /Mark K. Gyandoh --Institutional Redress of the Democratic Deficit: Redefinition with a Democracy-Efficiency Continuum /Joelle Anne Schmitz --Constituent Power and Polity Legitimacy in the European Context: A Theoretical Sketch /Zoran Oklopčić --Circumventing the State? The Demands of Stateless Nations, National Minorities, and the European Constitution /David Adam Landau and Lisa Vanhala --The Catholic Church and Poland's Accession to the European Union /Mirella Eberts --Inclusive Education as a Human Right and Slovakia's Accession to the European Union /Julia M. White --The US Must Merge with the EU /Tom Hudgens --Conclusion: Europe on the Road to Redefinition /Joseph Drew --Notes on Contributors.

Many local governments across the globe are facing financial sustainability challenges. Notably these challenges have emerged under extant democratic political institutions where the voice of the wider citizenry is often muted, and only heard at infrequent intervals and then in the context of assessing potential representatives according to a bundle of issues. Fiscal institutions such as balanced budget legislation and debt brakes may mitigate some of the financial sustainability problems faced by local government, but are often less than entirely effective owing to the acts of clever politicians who circumvent the spirit, if not the letter, of constraints. We propose a concurrent change to political institutions – specifically the addition of a bi-cameral sortition chamber – which we argue will inter alia enhance the efficacy of fiscal institutions implemented to arrest waning local government financial sustainability by introducing greater accountability, closer monitoring, and a more expedient pathway for censure and enforcement.

In recent years, scholars have paid significant attention to the role of decentralisation in restraining government power and budgetary excess. Yet growth in taxation and debt in OECD countries suggests that such measures have often had a limited effect in taming 'local Leviathans'. In response, this Research Provocation sets out a bold alternative vision, advocating the use of sortition – the deliberate introduction of arationality and chance into local policy decisions – in order to disrupt ingrained power imbalances and enhance democratic participation. It argues that sortition has the potential to provide for greater possibilities for citizens to exercise voice, choice and exit. This in turn, it is argued, can ensure that local government is more responsive to the preferences of ordinary citizens. In making this provocative argument, we offer an important contribution to debates regarding citizen disengagement, democratic malaise and the potential of more deliberative forms of democracy to address such challenges.