Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State - Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion

Klappentext This book sheds fresh light on the neglected subject of taxation and welfare. Zusammenfassung Government size has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics but the formation of the government's funding base is also important. In this book! Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Argument: path dependency and the diffusion of a regressive tax; 2. European variation: Sweden, the United Kingdom, and France; 3. Contrasting paired comparisons in Oceania and North America; 4. Another pattern of path dependence: a comparison between Japan and the newly developing economies; 5. The political foundation of financing the welfare state: a comparative view; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Junko Kato, Junko (University of Tokyo) Kato
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9780521824521
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82452-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education