RECOMMENDED READINGS
1. Government Inefficiency, Institutional Inertia, and Public Sector Misalignment • Schuck, P. H. (2014). Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better . Princeton University Press. – A comprehensive analysis of structural inefficiencies and misaligned incentives in U.S. governance, explaining frequent policy failures and offering ideas for reformtandfonline.com. Schuck’s work echoes Theft at the Public Till by documenting how bureaucratic programs often yield unintended outcomes and waste. • King, A., & Crewe, I. (2013). The Blunders of Our Governments . Oneworld Publications. – A detailed survey of major UK policy fiascoes in recent decades, illustrating government inertia and costly blunderswilibraries.org.uk. King and Crewe show how well-intentioned policies can go disastrously wrong through insti- tutional incompetence, reinforcing themes of governmental dys- function and inertia raised by Theft at the Public Till . • Bovens, M., & ’t Hart, P. (2016). “Revisiting the Study of Policy Failures.” Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (5), 653–666. – An academic review of why public policies fail, synthesizing cases of fiascos and administrative collapsedash.harvard.edu. It provides a framework for understanding government failure (e.g. information mishandling, implementation gaps) that complements Theft at the Public Till ’s critique of institutional inertia and misalignment.
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