Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pathways to development -- How governments work -- Civilization -- Human capital development -- Human capital and national security -- Training -- Militarization -- Education in the third world -- Education in the United States -- Support -- Measurement --...