Dimensions
150 x 216 x 28mm
In this timely and compelling book, Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the US government is trying to solve. Pick almost any recent US domestic concern?—?waging a war, protecting food supply and borders, providing health-care coverage for an aging population or relief after a devastating hurricane?—?and the standard response is to outsource core tasks to thousands of independent contractors.
