number 59 • Spring 2024

The Public Interest

Why our democracy doesn’t work

William A. Niskanen

Summer 1994

AMERICAN government does not serve us very well. Moreover, because our periodic elections are only a weak error-correcting process, this has been the case for a long time.

 


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