mitigation

Examples of mitigation in the following topics:

• Major Life and Political Events

  • Later studies have shown that the initial strong effect of the life cycle variable was mitigated by generational effects.

• Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

  • Following the stock market crash of 1929, President Roosevelt invested unprecedented governmental funds into the expansion of the executive bureaucracy in order to employ Americans and mitigate the extreme financial decline of the era.

• The Republican Party

  • The Republicans were cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of Theodore Roosevelt who embraced trust busting.

• Fiscal Policy

  • In the classical view, the expansionary fiscal policy also decreases net exports, which has a mitigating effect on national output and income.

• The Nineteenth Century

  • The theory argued for government action to mitigate unemployment and economic downturns.

• Popular Consent, Majority Rule, and Popular Sovereignty

  • Most famously, it has been argued that majority rule might lead to a "tyranny of the majority," and the use of a supermajority and constitutional limits on government power have been recommended to mitigate these effects.

• Energy Policy

  • The United States had resisted endorsing the Kyoto Protocol, preferring to let the market drive CO2 reductions to mitigate global warming, which will require CO2 emission taxation .