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Brooker, Russell G. – Simulation and Games, 1983
Examines four simulation games used in higher education to teach the role of elections in promoting governmental responsibility, the effects of imperfect accountability on governmental policy, and ways to make governments more accountable. These games simulate interest group lobbying, political party formation, bureaucratic policy making, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, City Officials, Educational Games, Elections
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Fort, Rodney; Rosenman, Robert – Journal of Economic Education, 1993
Argues that inefficiency resulting from government regulation is the natural result of a process that does not have efficiency as its primary goal. Presents three examples of government regulation as supporting evidence. Concludes that efficiency is more likely to come from elected policymakers than from bureaucrats working in regulatory agencies.…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Economic Factors, Economics, Economics Education