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Better, Not Smaller
What Americans Want From Their Federal Government
Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira, with John Whaley July 2010
 
Doing What Works Advisory Board
Andres Alonso
CEO, Baltimore Public School System
Yigal Arens
Proessor, USC School o Engineering
Ian Ayres
Proessor, Yale Law School
Gary D. Bass
Executive Director, OMB Watch
Larisa Benson
Washington State Director o PerormanceAudit and Review
Anna Burger
Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU
Jack Dangermond
President, ESRI
Dan C. Esty
Proessor, Yale Law School
Beverly Hall
Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools
Elaine Kamarck 
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University
Sally Katzen
Executive Managing Director, The Podesta Group
Edward Kleinbard
Proessor, USC School o Law
John Koskinen
Non-Executive Chairman, Freddie Mac
Richard Leone
President, The Century Foundation
Ellen Miller
Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Claire O’Connor
Former Director o Perormance Management,City o Los Angeles
Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
Ali Partovi
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Tony Scott
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Richard H. Thaler
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Eric Toder
Fellow, Urban Institute
Margery Austin Turner
Vice President or Research, Urban Institute
Laura D. Tyson
Proessor, University o Caliornia-BerkeleySchool o Business
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Better, Not Smaller
What Americans Want From Their Federal Government
Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira, with John Whaley July 2010
Based on a nationwide survey conducted by Hart Research Associates for theCenter for American Progress and its Doing What Works project
This publication is a product o CAP’s Doing What Works project, which promotes government reorm toeciently allocate scarce resources and achieve greater results or the American people. Doing What Worksspecically has three key objectives: (1) eliminating or redesigning misguided spending programs and taxexpenditures ocused on priority areas such as health care, energy, and education; (2) improving govern-ment’s ability to execute by streamlining management and strengthening operations in the areas o humanresources, inormation technology, and procurement; and (3) building a oundation or smarter decisionmaking by enhancing transparency, perormance measurement, and evaluation. Doing What Works publica-tions and products can be viewed at http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/doing_what_works. Thisproject is undertaken in partnership with the Rockeeller Foundation’s Campaign or American Workers.

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An béar mórleft a comment

First of all, I dispute the claim that Americans want the same porky government, i.e., better would necessarily mean smaller.
07 / 27 / 2010
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An béar mór replied:

Of course, one has to wonder whom the "researchers" polled--government employees? Democrats? I shouldn't trust any study that finds in favor of large government, especially, a government of itself, by itself, and for itself, i.e., the current form.
07 / 27 / 2010

An béar mór replied:

Has anyone ever heard of a company or corporation that, after getting rid of the waste, stayed the same size? Streamlining one's operation always requires a reduction in size. I would say this "study" got the answer it wanted without regard to quantitative validity and reliability.
07 / 27 / 2010