Taegan Goddard, Christopher Riback

You Won--Now What?

How Americans Can Make Democracy Work from City Hall to the White House

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As public officials fail to deliver their campaign promises -- and voter cynicism skyrockets -- a simple explanation has become widely accepted: Government is broken. If only we could fix this system, voters hope, our democracy would work the way it was designed. But is government broken, or are the people we hire each Election Day not up to the job? You Won -- Now What? turns the tables on the government-reform debate. The answer is not to reinvent government but to reinvent government officials. Taegan D. Goddard and Christopher Riback use real-life stories to analyze the failures and successes of politicians from every level of government. Drawing on these examples, the authors identify the eight traits of effective public officials. These commonsense solutions prove that government is personal: good people can make a difficult system work. You Won -- Now What? explains to politicians and voters alike how government works -- and how it can work better.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780684852034
• ISBN-10: 0684852039
• Artikelnr.: 22136845

Autorenporträt

Taegan D. Goddard is the author of You Won--Now What?, a Simon & Schuster book.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: A Government of Novices
CHAPTER 2: Reinventing Government Again (and Again)
CHAPTER 3: Reinventing Government Officials
CHAPTER 4: It's Not a Business
CHAPTER 5: Rethinking Government
CHAPTER 6: The Vision Thing
CHAPTER 7: Changing of the Guard
CHAPTER 8: Ending Bureaucracy as We Know It
CHAPTER 9: Juggling Many Balls At Once
CHAPTER 10: Managing the Message
CHAPTER 11: Remember Who Sent You
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index