Elections have promoted fiscal laxity.
Why is there very little competition in laxity?
This explains the alternating severity and laxity of the registration mechanism in the periods 1872- 1902 and 1917-26.
The informality of the mechanisms for imposing social sanctions permitted a measure of laxity.
Many authors have argued that particularly in integrated (open) markets states get drawn into a competition in regulatory laxity.
The morality of the gentry is opposed to this laxity.
As noted above, local politicians there play an important role in tax enforcement, and tax collection is characterised by greater laxity.
For example, as police commissioner, with reporters at hand, he would stalk the roughest neighborhoods at night, ferreting out criminals and police laxity.
