The State Capacity Crisis
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The State Capacity Crisis
As we have seen increasingly in the past several decades, the foundation of the institutional problem was the vast expansion of the authority of the federal government, and apparent power, and its inability to create coherent and understandable laws and policies.
The problem is rather that the dramatically increasing level of federal involvement in society has outstripped its institutional capabilities.
Obviously the state could transform itself, from a Fordist cathedral to an organization designed to deliver performance in the Entrepreneurial Age. The problem is that like many big, dominant corporations, it experiences a version of Clayton Christensen’s “innovator’s dilemma”[392]. One reason is the rule of law, which in many cases prevents innova
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