Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance

by Malcolm K. Sparrow

Book Overview

Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275947815
• ISBN13: 9780275947811
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"