Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government
By (Author) John D. Donahue
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
1st August 1999
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
351.73
Physical Properties
Paperback
236
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
Confounding the conventional wisdom that federal government doesn't work, is bureaucratic in implementation and moribund in innovation, this book profiles the 14 federal institutions that have won awards in the Ford Foundation's annual "Innovation in American Government" competition since it was opened to federal candidates in 1995. Examples include the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which worked out how to identify and act upon business and government's shared stake in keeping dangerous products out of consumer's hands, and the Wage and Hour inspectors who deployed market leverage to put pressure on the garment-industry scofflaws whose sweatshops had so far evaded conventional enforcement.
Author Bio
John D. Donahue is the Raymond Vernon Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His books include Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times (Princeton University Press), written with Richard J. Zeckhauser.
