British governments that is.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little about the recent American book Why Government Fails So Often? The Blunders of our Governments is a nice British complement to it. Anthony King and Ivor Crewe have both been professors of government, and Crewe is now Master of University College, Oxford. Unlike Peter Schuck, the author of the American book, they don’t say anything much about themselves, but it is not hard to deduce that they are probably instinctively (and perhaps analytically) inclined to believe in the good that government can do. Holland, Germany, and the Nordics appear to be the preferred models of government process.
The chapter “An array of successes” begins “governments often succeed, far more often than they are usually given credit for”. If true that would be good, given how much of society’s resources governments command. But the case was somewhat undermined…
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