Eric M. Patashnik

Putting Trust in the US Budget

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provided the first comprehensive study of a significant yet little-studied feature of the American welfare state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521771740
• ISBN-10: 0521771749
• Artikelnr.: 26951619

Autorenporträt

Eric M. Patashnik Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, professor of political science, and director of the Master of Public Affairs Program, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

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 challenge of promise-keeping.