Regressive taxation and welfare state
path dependence and policy diffusion
- ISBN: 9780521824521
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Colección: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 260
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labor interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in postwar politics, the formation of the government's funding base has not been explored ÍNDICE: 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.
