Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of 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
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of 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
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- Putting Trust in the US BudgetFederal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000