Automatic Continuing Resolutions: A Cure Worse than the Ailment

Candreva, Philip J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2059045

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Automatic Continuing Resolutions: A Cure Worse than the Ailment

6 Pages Posted: 14 May 2012

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Philip J. Candreva

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

Date Written: May 14, 2012

Abstract

This essay considers statutory proposals to create an automatic continuing resolution mechanism to avoid government shutdowns from the perspectives of public management, political science, and law. It concludes that such a mechanism is ill-advised because of the policy implications of changes to incentive structures.

Keywords: automatic continuing resolution, continuing resolution, appropriation, administrative law, government shutdown

JEL Classification: E61, H61, K23

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Candreva, Philip J., Automatic Continuing Resolutions: A Cure Worse than the Ailment (May 14, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2059045 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2059045