Law And The Limits Of Government

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Law And The Limits Of Government Temporary versus Permanent Legislation

By Frank Fagan
Edward Elgar Publishing July 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780857938657
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
July 2013
Format
Hardback , 168 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Why do legislatures pass laws that automatically expire? Why are so many tax cuts sunset? 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. This book provides a careful analysis which does not normatively prescribe either permanent or temporary legislation in every instance, but rather specifies the conditions for which either permanent or temporary legislation would maximize social welfare.

Containing comprehensive, theoretical and empirical analysis of temporary lawmaking, Law and the Limits of Government will appeal to academics in law, economic and political science, lawmakers and policy advocates.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Frank Fagan, School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

Reviews

‘Law and the Limits of Government by Frank Fagan is a creative and enormously useful book for any scholar of legislation, timing rules, and politics.’
– Jacob Gersen, Harvard Law School, US

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