Putting Trust in the US Budget :[ele...
Barry, Brian.

 

  • Putting Trust in the US Budget :[electronic resource].Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 336.10973
    書名/作者: Putting Trust in the US Budget : : Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.
    作者: Patashnik, Eric M.
    其他作者: Barry, Brian.
    出版者: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2000.
    面頁冊數: 247 p.
    標題: Pension trusts.
    ISBN: 9780511490842 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780521771740 (print)
    內容註: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: trust funds and the politics of commitment; 2 Political transaction costs, feedback effects, and policy credibility; 3 Trust fund taxes vs. general fund taxes; 4 Social security; 5 Medicare; 6 Highways; 7 Airports; 8 Superfund; 9 Barriers to trust fund adoption: the failed cases of energy security and lead abatement; 10 Conclusions: the structure and normative challenges of promise-keeping; Bibliography; Index
    摘要、提要註: In the United States many important programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are paid from trust funds. This book provides the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American welfare state, and also raises a fundamental question of democratic politics: can current officeholders bind their successors?
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