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7%OFFJennifer Bachner - What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People - 9781633882492 - V9781633882492
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What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People

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Description for What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People Hardback. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFHC; JPH; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 510.
Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the American people whom they ostensibly serve? Not much, according to this enlightening and disturbing study. The authors surveyed federal agency officials, congressional and White House staffers, and employees of various policy-making organizations about their attitudes toward and knowledge of the public. They found a significant chasm between what official Washington assumes they know about average Americans and the actual opinions and attitudes of American citizens. Even in such basic areas as life circumstances (e.g., income levels, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Prometheus Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781633882492
SKU
V9781633882492
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About Jennifer Bachner
Jennifer Bachner is the Director of the Master of Science in Government Analytics at Johns Hopkins University. Her recent report, Predictive Policing- Preventing Crime with Data and Analytics, has been published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. She is also the coeditor (with Kathryn Wagner Hill and Benjamin Ginsberg) of Analytics, Policy and Governance (forthcoming). As an ... Read more

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