Dependent on D.C.
The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans
BOOK FORUMThursday, July 11, 2002
4:00 p.m.
Featuring the author, Charlotte Twight, Boise State University; with comments by James P. Pinkerton, Columnist, Newsday.
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Why are government programs so hard to eliminate? What role do politicians play in the growth of government? Are they responding to popular pressure or driving the process? Political scientist, economist, and lawyer Charlotte Twight political transaction costs to curtail resistance to their programs and then deliberately incorporate features into those programs that make them harder to eliminate later. Like the barbs of a fishhook, such features embed government in the lives of the American people. Twight’s work is important to anyone who wants to understand the seeming immovability of big government.