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...

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Publicado en:	Policy Studies Journal Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 972 - 996
Autor principal:	Vakilifathi, Mona
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2019
Materias:	Charter schools Legislative oversight Legislators Discretion U.S. states politics & government Term of office of legislators Ex post facto laws Term limits (Public office)
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