ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents the demands for public services as expressed through our political processes and based on the consequences of the bureaucratic supply of public services, majority rule, and proportional taxation—the dominant characteristics of our present system of government. A competitive supply of public services in combination with majority rule would generate a nearly optimal level of public services. This process would probably involve all of the following general changes: increase the competition among bureaus for the supply of the same or similar public services, change the incentives in the bureaucracy to induce more efficient behavior by the senior bureaucrats, increase the competition to the bureaucracy by greater use of private sources of supply of public services and reassert control of the review process by the President and the legislative representatives of the median voters.
