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Well, what does government do, exactly?
To ask ‘What does government do?’ is to state a plain man’s question in plain man’s language. The answer is by no means simple.
(Rose, 1976, p. 247; and Rose and Peters, 1978, p. 67)
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Hood, C.C. (1983). Exploring Government’s Toolshed. In: The Tools of Government. Public Policy and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17169-9_1
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