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The Government-Industrial Complex
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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter One: A Warning Renewed
Chapter Two: The True Size of Government
Chapter Three: Pressures on the Dividing Line
Chapter Four: A Proper Blending
Conclusion: The Next-Gen Public Service
Appendix 1: Options for Reform
Endnotes

About the Author

Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before joining NYU, he was vice president and director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow, and founding director of its Center for Public Service.
He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee from 1987-1989, associate dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University ofMinnesota from 1989-1994, director of the public policy grant program at the Pew Charitable Trusts from 1995-1998. Light has written 25 books, including four national award winners, and is a recognized expert on government reform, legislative history, social innovation, and government by investigation.

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This is an impressive and highly engaging contribution. Scholars should view it as a call to (research) arms; much more attention is clearly needed to unpack the who of government work.
*Rachewl Augustine Potter, University of Virginia, Congress & the Presidency*

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