управляя исполнительной ветвью власти, состоящей из 2 млн работников (не считая вооруженные силы), отвечая за все, от загрязнения воздуха до рентгеновского досмотра пассажиров в аэропортах». John Dickerson, “The Hardest Job in the World,” Atlantic, May 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/a-broken-office/556883/.
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Ian MacDougall, “How McKinsey Is Making $100 Million (and Counting) Advising on the Government’s Bumbling Coronavirus Response,” ProPublica, July 15, 2020, https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-is-making-100-million-and-counting-advising-on-the-governments-bumbling-coronavirus-response.
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Megan Brenan, “Americans’ Trust in Government to Handle Problems at New Low,” Gallup, January 31, 2019, https://news.gallup.com/poll/246371/americans-trust-government-handle-problems-new-low.aspx.
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Peter Schuck, Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), 3. See also Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Philip D. Zelikow, “Conclusion: Reflections, Conjectures, and Puzzles,” in Why People Don’t Trust Government, ed. Joseph S. Nye Jr., Philip D. Zelikow, and David C. King (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 253-281.
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Washington Post, The Great Society: 50 Years Later (New York: Diversion Books, 2014), 4.
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“Democracy Index 2019,” Economist, accessed October 10, 2020, http://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index.
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Schuck, Why Government Fails So Often, 23.
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John Bridgeland and Peter Orszag, “Can Government Play Moneyball? How a New Era of Fiscal Scarcity Could Make Washington Work Better,” Atlantic, July-August 2013, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/can-government-play-moneyball/309389/.
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Paul C. Light, “A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop It,” Brookings Institution, July 14, 2014, https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-cascade-of-failures-why-government-fails-and-how-to-stop-it/.
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Seth J. Hill and Chris Tausanovitch, “A Disconnect in Representation? Comparison of Trends in Congressional and Public Polarization,” Journal of Politics 77, no. 4 (2015):1058-1075.
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Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007); Ilya Somin, Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013); Rick Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We: Facing the Truth about the American Voter (New York: Basic Books, 2008).
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Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper, 1957); see also Guido Pincione and Fernando Tesón, Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Ознакомиться с язвительной критикой «антидемократической точки зрения» можно в работе: Roslyn Fuller, In Defence of Democracy (London: Policy, 2019).
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Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017).
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Ситуация, описанная в данной книге, отражает начавшийся в 70-х годах процесс построения неоконсервативного (или неолиберального) политического строя в США и странах-союзниках. Наиболее полно данный процесс описан в книге американского политолога Н. Кляйн «Доктрина шока». (Прим. ред.)
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See Lawrence Lessig, Republic Lost: Version 2.0 (New York: Twelve, 2015); and Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).
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Stephen M. Teles, “Kludgeocracy in America,” National Affairs 25 (Fall 2013): 97.
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See Center for Responsive Politics, Open Secrets, “Lobbying Data Summary,” accessed October 10, 2020, https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/summary. See also John B. Judis, The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust (New York: Knopf, 2013).
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Steven H. Woolf and Heidi Schoomaker, “Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017,” JAMA 322, no. 20 (2019): 1996-2016, https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.16932.
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