Author Topic: Why Do Governments Do Stupid Things?  (Read 307 times)

John Short

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Why Do Governments Do Stupid Things?
« on: December 06, 2016, 10:12:42 GMT »
Trust in government is at an all-time low in many countries. From failed healthcare policies to missed intelligence, government blunders happen often – and visibly. But successful policy-making is hard (and fixes are rarely as quick as politicians like to promise).
Some argue that governments would do stupid things less often if they based their policies on the careful analysis of good evidence; find out what works, in other words, and then do that.
But that’s not how most governments operate, most of the time.
Why not?

Part of interesting series The Inquiry on BBC World Service

Downloads at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads
« Last Edit: December 06, 2016, 11:11:10 GMT by John Short »

 

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