Constraining Bureaucrats Today Knowing You'll Be Gone Tomorrow: The Effect of Legislative Term Limits on Statutory Discretion.
Do finite time horizons constrain a legislature's ability to control the bureaucracy? I argue that legislators subject to legislative term limits enact legislation with less statutory discretion today to ensure that their preferences are implemented by the bureaucracy tomorrow since most legislators...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 972 - 996 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2019
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