Law and the Limits of Government: Temporary versus Permanent Legislation / Frank Fagan
Material type: TextPublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., 2013Description: XII, 153 p. : illISBN: 9780857938657 DDC classification: 328Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Contents: Foreword by Francesco Parisi Part I: Theory 1. Introduction 2. Short- to Medium-term Residual Effects 3. Long-term Residual Effects 4. Information and Commitment 5. Temporary Tax Legislation Part II: Evidence 6. Passage Probability 7. Sponsor's Age 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
In this first book-length treatment of those questions, the author explains that legislatures pass laws temporarily in order to reduce opposition from the citizenry, to increase the level of information revealed by lobbies, and to externalize the political costs of changing the tax code on to future legislatures.
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