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Playing with Fiscal Fire : = The Politics of Consumption Tax Reform.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playing with Fiscal Fire :/
Reminder of title:	The Politics of Consumption Tax Reform.
Author:	Lesch, Matthew.
Description:	1 online resource (309 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355848892

Playing with Fiscal Fire : = The Politics of Consumption Tax Reform.
Lesch, Matthew.

Playing with Fiscal Fire :The Politics of Consumption Tax Reform. - 1 online resource (309 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Drawing on the case of consumption tax reform, this thesis investigates the varying capacity of governments to enact and institutionalize "general-interest reforms" (Patashnik 2003). The study advances a two-stage theory of policy reform. The first part explains why some governments, in spite of the political risks, decide to pursue general-interest reforms. In this first stage, two variants of policy learning---rational learning and emulation---are proposed to explain policy uptake. The second stage of the theory builds on policy feedback scholarship (Pierson 1993; Mettler and SoRelle 2014), claiming that the durability of a reform hinges on policy design. It proposes that governments can prompt various policy feedback effects through policy design and communications. Such efforts can shape the political incentives and perceptions of interest groups, opposition parties and voters at key junctures in the policy process.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355848892Subjects--Topical Terms:

558774
Political science.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a The study illustrates the analytic value of this approach through two distinct but complementary empirical strategies. First, through comparative case analysis using mainly qualitative techniques of elite interviews and document analysis, it compares the varying experiences of two Canadian provincial governments---Ontario and British Columbia (BC)---with value-added tax (VAT) reform. While each government chose to pursue VAT reform in the late 2000s, only in the case of Ontario was it successfully implemented while the BC government was forced to reverse its policy decision. Second, through a series of survey experiments, the study tests whether issue framing and policy design can shape mass receptivity to various tax reforms (e.g., carbon, sales and income taxes). The findings from the case studies as well as the survey experiments provide novel insights into the importance of policy design. The study holds important implications for our broader understanding of the mechanisms underpinning policy change and stability.
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