“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.” IfsProblemGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulExerciseDifficultySeparationAriseFeaturesAgencyEfficientArrangementsFederal GovernmentPolitical SystemsTolerableFragmentedSeparation Of PowersGovernment Agencies Author:James Q. Wilson
“Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims” PeopleIfsDifferentProblemPeaceResultsStruggleAimComplexesSeparationPursueEmpoweringDifferent PeoplesContradictoryTreatiesParliamentarySeparation Of PowersPeace TreatiesParliamentary System Author:James Q. Wilson
“I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.” WayMeanProblemLawSolutionsConsequenceFunctionPoliceSolveGenuineDiscussionNeighborhoodPartnershipLaw EnforcementEnforcementVenting Author:James Q. Wilson
