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Regressive taxation and the welfare state : = path dependence and policy diffusion /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Regressive taxation and the welfare state :/ Junko Kato.
Reminder of title:	path dependence and policy diffusion /
remainder title:	Regressive Taxation & the Welfare State
Author:	Kato, Junko,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Taxation. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510212
ISBN:	9780511510212 (ebook)

Regressive taxation and the welfare state : = path dependence and policy diffusion /
Kato, Junko,1961-

Regressive taxation and the welfare state :path dependence and policy diffusion /Regressive Taxation & the Welfare StateJunko Kato. - 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Argument: path dependency and the diffusion of a regressive tax -- European variation: Sweden, the United Kingdom, and France -- Contrasting paired comparisons in Oceania and North America -- Another pattern of path dependence: a comparison between Japan and the newly developing economies -- The political foundation of financing the welfare state: a comparative view.

Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labour interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics, the formation of the government's funding base is also important. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Since the 1980s, the institutionalisation of effective revenue raising by regressive taxes during periods of high growth has ensured resistance to welfare state backlash during budget deficits and consolidated the diversification of state funding capacity among industrial democracies. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that progressive taxation goes hand-in-hand with large public expenditures in mature welfare states and qualifies the partisan centred explanation that dominates the welfare state literature.

ISBN: 9780511510212 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556259
Taxation.

LC Class. No.: HJ2305 / .K28 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 330.12/6

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