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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788099203321

Autore

DiSalvo Daniel

Titolo

Government against itself : how public employee unions weaken America's government and economy / / Daniel DiSalvo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-999076-X

0-19-999075-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

POL040000POL030000POL013000

Disciplina

331.88/1135173

Soggetti

Government employee unions - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction. The Battle over Collective Bargaining in Government -- Chapter 1. Government Unions: Democracy, Equity, Efficiency, and Purpose -- Chapter 2. The Unseen Rights Revolution -- Chapter 3. Electing Your Own Boss -- Chapter 4. Distorting Direct Democracy -- Chapter 5. Government Lobbies Itself -- Chapter 6. Public Employee Compensation and the Costs of Government -- Chapter 7. Spending More, Getting Less -- Chapter 8. Shelter from the Storm -- Chapter 9. A Day of Reckoning?.

Sommario/riassunto

"Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest"--