• World Bank. (2017). World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law . Washington, DC: World Bank. – A global policy report examining why “carefully designed policies fail or bad policies endure,” emphasizing how power imbalances and out- dated institutions undermine effective governancecesr.org. This report’s findings on institutional constraints and inertia in policy implementation worldwide reinforce Lissack’s argument that gov- ernment structures often lag behind societal needs.
2. Public Choice Theory, Hidden Redistribution, and Policy Capture
• Mettler, S. (2011). The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy . University of Chicago Press. – A book revealing how many U.S. policies chan- nel benefits in hidden ways (e.g. via tax breaks or complex pro- grams) that the public often doesn’t recognizeacademic.oup.com. Mettler’s work aligns with Theft at the Public Till by exposing hidden redistribution and “theft by policy,” showing how opacity in govern- ment benefits erodes democratic accountability. • Lindsey, B., & Teles, S. (2017). The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality . Oxford University Press. – An analysis grounded in public-choice theory, arguing that wealthy interest groups “capture” policy – from finance to housing – to enact regulations that enrich the few at the expense of the manyideas.repec.org. This book provides real-world examples of policy capture and rent-seeking that illustrate the abuse of public trust highlighted in Theft at the Public Till . • Hacker, J. S., & Pierson, P. (2010). Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class . Simon & Schuster. – A political economy study of how organized interests and lobbying have shifted U.S. policy to fa- vor the wealthy, resulting in hidden upward redistributionmiltonli- braryvt.org. Hacker and Pierson chronicle failures of representation
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