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Accountability and individual responses to the accountability problems
Governmental size: the number of governments, the relative size of public organizations and the
size of different departments.
What public organizations do and how do public organizations differ from private companies?
What are the functions of federal government, state government and local governments?
Entitlement and the trend of federal outlays on entitlement
The tools of government: direct tools and indirect ones, discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of contracting out (also refer to chapter 12)
Federal grants, categorical grants (formula and program grants), block grants. Fiscal mismatch
theory.
(refer also to chapter 12); Identify different types of regulation (economic and social
regulation), figure out how federal government administer programs through regulation
(crossover sanctions; partial preemption etc.)
Tax expenditures, loan programs, and government regulation
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- Spring '11
- SU
- Government, Federal government of the United States, public organizations, government regulation Authority, accountability problems Governmental
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