The chapter explores the harmful consequences of ideological frames on policy outcomes, including the difficulties in implementing government incentive programs for climate change and building public infrastructure. It discusses the rise of small government conservatism and the challenges faced in balancing government oversight with efficient governance.
Our first lifeboat is hope — hope that government could actually do good. Brink Lindsey, formerly of the Cato Institute, and now Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, talks to me about governmental capacity, and how we could make it better.