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The Bills for Rights: How Can the U.S. Political System Keep the Promises Americans Have Made to Themselves
The Bills for Rights How Can the US Political System Keep the Promises Americans Have Made to Themselves Author:C. Eugene Steuerle, Edward M. Gramlich, Hugh Heclo, Demetra Smith Nightingale Contributes to the debate about government's place in U.S. society with the following argument: Before buying into anyone's vision of where public policy should go, we must think seriously about where we are now. This includes our economic and social structure, our government as a prominent feature of that landscape, and the way we currently mak... more »e political decisions. The authors' views of where we are now lead them to propose a rethinking of our commitments as a society, our public responsibilities, and our processes for making big policy choices--a rethinking that can help make government more responsive to changing expectations and changing needs.« less