Government has to regain a modicum of performance capacity.
Governments have become powerless against the onslaught of special-interest groups, have, indeed, become powerless to govern—to make decisions and to enforce them. The new tasks—protection of the environment, stamping out private armies and international terrorism, making arms control effective—all will require more rather than less government. But they will require a different form of government.
Government has to regain a modicum of performance capacity. It has to be turned around. To turn around any institution—whether a business, a labor union, a university, a hospital, or a government—always requires the same three steps:
- Abandonment of ...
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