What are the sources of government failure?

Answer 1

Incompetent bureaucracy.

Answer 2

Sources Of Government Failure

Answer 3

Government derives its power from the constituency. It has no power (and therefore no authority to use force) other than what we give it.

To ask what is the source of government failure requires a definition of what is not failure, i.e. what is success. Simply put, a successful government meets the needs of its constutuency as understood by the constituency. This requires clear communication and two-way trust between government and governed.

Failure stems from (1) failure to understand the needs (separation), (2) failure to meet the needs (through incompetence or greed), or (3) unreasonable expectations of the constutuency. Of course, more than one of these is typically happening at a given time.

The root cause is the breakdown of trust and communication.

Answer 4

Giving the government too much power to do anything for others. It needs to be simple and streamlined and let communities do the larger tasks for their populous.

Example is now that the federal government has a department of education ...students are getting less quality education, less local funds for growth, less qualified teachers etc... for now the bigger DofE needs big money to run. If it was eliminated local communities would have larger budgets, make local choices, and not have someone a thousand miles away making choices for them.
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And this can be seen within many departments of the Fed. Government. Government cannot work when it is fat and full of people put in because of "favors".

Answer 5

Mainly the failure of the public to inform themselves of issues, get involved, vote, and exercise their right to be heard by government. Too many people don't even know when an election is, much less go vote in it.

The government will always be more effective when those represented take an active, vocal, and informed part in how it's run.

Answer 6

Policies that differ from statute, statutes that differ from law; continuous legislation and code development too jingoist to understand. Double standards for decision makers. Corporate empowerment, legitimized by manipulation of the masses via the media. Usurpation of the military by the Corporate State. Voiding our Constitution.
Just a few.

Answer 7

The first thing you have to understand is that government, regardless of culture or political style, is force and nothing else. Force and compulsion is all a government has to work with.

Governments fail because they try to do things that are inappropriate to do by force.

I could give examples, but if you're bright enough to understand the premise, you're bright enough to supply your own examples.

Answer 8

Political hypocrisy, and this happens with all political parties. Truly, the government is best that governs the least.