Government for the Public Good
Fast paced, globally informed and wittily written. – Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University
Refreshing and far-sighted, Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action offers us a new way of thinking about government and how it can navigate the turbulent world ahead.
It is a major work about the renewal of government – what it does and how it does it – in the face of the challenges of the twenty-first century.
In a time of global political ferment, established ideas are coming under renewed scrutiny. Chief among them is one of the dominant notions of our era: that we should entrust markets with many of the tasks previously carried out by government.
This wide-ranging book, published in 2018, goes beyond anecdote and partisanship, delving deep into the latest research about the sweeping changes made to the public services that shape our collective lives. It challenges established thinking on the effectiveness of market-based reforms and charts a new form of ‘deep’ democracy for the twenty-first century.