The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government - Hardcover

Phillip K. Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393082822 ISBN 13: 9780393082821

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

What s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think. Yes, there s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship. Rules have replaced leadership in America. Bureaucracy, regulation, and outmoded law tie our hands and confine policy choices. Nobody asks, What s the right thing to do here? Instead, they wonder, What does the rule book say? There s a fatal flaw in America s governing system trying to decree correctness through rigid laws will never work. Public paralysis is the inevitable result of the steady accretion of detailed rules. America is now run by dead people by political leaders from the past who enacted mandatory programs that churn ahead regardless of waste, irrelevance, or new priorities. America needs to radically simplify its operating system and give people officials and citizens alike the freedom to be practical. Rules can t accomplish our goals. Only humans can get things done. In The Rule of Nobody Philip K. Howard argues for a return to the framers vision of public law setting goals and boundaries, not dictating daily choices. This incendiary book explains how America went wrong and offers a guide for how to liberate human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century."

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Title: The Rule of Nobody( Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: PhilipK.Howard <>Publisher: W.W.Norton&Company

Review:

Rather than asking what s right to do, Howard contends, government asks what the rulebook says to do. As a result, waste occurs, debt rises, schools fail, health-care costs soar, the economy falters and even problems that seem simple and easy to solve become bureaucratic nightmares. --Alan Wallace"

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393082822
• ISBN 13: 9780393082821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256