Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Peter Schuck, on his new book, Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better. He is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at the Yale Law School. He is the author of Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples (2006); Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics (2005), and co-editor with James Q. Wilson of Understanding America (2009). Before joining the Yale faculty he practiced law in Washington and New York and was an official at the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He holds a B. A. from Cornell (1962), a J. D. from the Harvard Law School (1965), and an M. A. in Government from Harvard (1969).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on December 5, 2014.
Peter Schuck, on his new book, Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better. He is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at the Yale Law School. He is the author of Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples (2006); Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics (2005), and co-editor with James Q. Wilson of Understanding America (2009). Before joining the Yale faculty he practiced law in Washington and New York and was an official at the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He holds a B. A. from Cornell (1962), a J. D. from the Harvard Law School (1965), and an M. A. in Government from Harvard (1969).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on December 5, 2014.
