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The 2015 John Gaus Award Lecture: Vision + Action = Faithful Execution: Why Government Daydreams and How to Stop the Cascade of Breakdowns That Now Haunts It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2016

Paul C. Light*
Affiliation:
New York University

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