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Putting Trust in the US Budget :Fede...

Barry, Brian.

Putting Trust in the US Budget :Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Putting Trust in the US Budget :
Reminder of title:	Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.
Author:	Patashnik, Eric M.
other author:	Barry, Brian.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.
Description:	247 p.
Subject:	Pension trusts.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511490842 (electronic bk.)

Putting Trust in the US Budget :Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.
Patashnik, Eric M.

Putting Trust in the US Budget :Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000. - 247 p.

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

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?

Electronic reproduction.

Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511490842 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

201501
Pension trusts.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD7105.45.U6 P366 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 336.10973

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