Towards Better Government

Abstract

Can faith be restored in the capacity of democratic societies to solve their economic and social problems? Is better and more constructive government possible? This final chapter cannot adequately answer these big questions, but it can suggest some possible ways of transcending the present limitations upon effective collective action. To do this, the chapter will first revert to the public choice analysis of the growth and attempted curtailment of the role of government, then consider the new political agenda which is beginning to unfold and the required conditions for developing a new paradigm of the goals of public policy, and move finally to international and national problems of achieving political change.