Daniel Disalvo

Government Against Itself

Public Union Power and Its Consequences

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Produktbeschreibung

Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199990740
• ISBN-10: 0199990743
• Artikelnr.: 47869049

Autorenporträt

Daniel DiSalvo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York-CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for State and Local Leadership. He has written on American political parties, elections, labor unions, state government, and public policy for both scholarly and popular publications, including National Affairs, The Public Interest, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post. He is the author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868-2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Battle over Collective Bargaining in Government
Chapter 1. Government Unions: Democracy, Equity, Efficiency, and Purpose
Chapter 2. The Unseen Rights Revolution
Chapter 3. Electing Your Own Boss
Chapter 4. Distorting Direct Democracy
Chapter 5. Government Lobbies Itself
Chapter 6. Public Employee Compensation and the Costs of Government
Chapter 7. Spending More, Getting Less
Chapter 8. Shelter from the Storm
Chapter 9. A Day of Reckoning?