Saying Yes to Taxes: The Politics of Tax Reform Campaigns in Three Northwestern States, 1965–1973  

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Pearson, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 119 no. 05 (Mar. 2014), page 1279-1323.
Topik: Divergent State Tax Policies; Tax Visibility and Design; Policy Sequence; American Ambivalence Toward Taxation; Establishing Institutions: Taxes; Direct Democracy and Constitutional Limits; Tax Relief Through New Taxes

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This article analyzes factors shaping popular support for new taxes by examining variation in the outcomes of votes in nine American states during the 1960s and early 1970s. New taxes were endorsed in five states but rejected in four. Using comparative and historical methods focused on the cases of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the author argues that the sequence of policy making shapes popular vetoes through three mechanisms: the mobilization of interest groups, the information available to voters about a policy, and how the costs and benefits of a policy appear to voters. The findings demonstrate that voter perceptions of the potential gains and losses of a new policy are sociologically mobilized through the policy process. Controlling when popular veto points appear in a policy process is an understudied strategy that is employed by American state builders to overcome ambivalence toward the fiscal imperatives of the activist state.

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