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Government's Greatest Achievements:
From Civil Rights to Homeland Security
This web companion to Paul C. Light's book, Government's Greatest Achievement's: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security, is the result of a project designed to understand what the federal government has most actively endeavored to do since World War II, identify the top achievements among its goals, and use its agenda from the past to weigh its most pressing priorities for the future.
More About the Project
This project was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation
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| Endeavor: involves a government effort to solve some problem such as racial discrimination, pollution, or poverty
Achievement: involves government progress in actually solving a problem. For example, by reducing discrimination, strengthening defense, or improving air and water quality
Priority: involves choices about how hard the government should work on an endeavor in the future
- Take the priorities survey online and see how your rankings compare with those of the economists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists
Read the report on Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century
Go to the Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century Homepage |
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Methodology
Learn how the goals included in each of the two surveys, the first on Government's Greatest Achievements of the Past Half Century and the second on Governments Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century, were selected.
For professors:
Study Guides—The guides offer lecture topics, themes for discussion, research paper topics, a sample lecture, and the outline for a module.
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