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Government Failure

Government Failure is a public policy outcome in which government intervention in a market or economic process results in a net reduction in social welfare, distinguishing it from market failure by attributing inefficiency to governmental actions or institutions rather than to inherent market imperfections.

703

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47.4K

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983

Authors

468

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2017–2026

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703

Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty

Choice Reviews Online · 2012 · 3.7K citations

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Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government: Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

Lester M. Salamon · Journal of Voluntary Action Research · 1987 · 842 citations

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Most eGovernment-for-Development Projects Fail: How Can Risks be Reduced?

Richard Heeks · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2003 · 716 citations · Full text

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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Harold R. Kerbo · DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University) · 1979 · 674 citations · Full text

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Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) · 1991 · 658 citations · Full text

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Authors

983

  1. BD
    Brian Dollery

    University of New England, Australia

    12 publications · 471 citations

    12

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  2. JW
    Joe Wallis

    University of Otago, New Zealand

    6 publications · 250 citations

    6

    h-index

  3. DN
    Darmawan Napitupulu

    Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia

    4 publications · 123 citations

    4

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  4. CJ
    Christopher J. Coyne

    George Mason University, United States

    4 publications · 100 citations

    4

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  5. PT
    Peter T. Leeson

    George Mason University, United States

    3 publications · 112 citations

    3

    h-index

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Institutions

468

  1. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    406 citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    975 citations

  3. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. New York University

    New York, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    373 citations

  5. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    977 citations

  6. George Mason University

    Fairfax, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    340 citations

  7. International Monetary Fund

    Washington D.C., United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    565 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 39 publications · 7.8K citations

    30

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 31 publications · 2.1K citations

    18

    h-index

  3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 15 publications · 719 citations

    12

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  4. Foreign Affairs

    10 publications · 879 citations

    10

    h-index

  5. The Economic Journal

    9 publications · 959 citations

    9

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