TAILIEUCHUNG - Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State

Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an ex- pression of a stronger representation of labor interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and the right in postwar politics, the formation of the government’s funding base has not been explored. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax rev- enue structure is path-dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Since the 1980s, the institutionalization of effective revenue raising by regressive taxes during periods of highgrowthhas ensured resistance to welfare state back- lashduring budget deficits and consolidated. | Taxation and the Welfare Slate PATH DEPENDENCE AND POLICY DIFFUSION Junko Kato Cambridge more information 978O521824521 This page intentionally left blank Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State 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 labor interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and the right in postwar politics the formation of the government s funding base has not been explored. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path-dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Since the 1980s the institutionalization of effective revenue raising by regressive taxes during periods of highgrowthhas ensured resistance to welfare state backlash during budget dcfici and co I1S the diversifiaation of state fiddling capacity among industrial democracies. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that progressive taxation goes hand in hand with large public expenditures in mature welfare states and qualifies the partisan-centered explanation that dominates the welfare state literature. Junko Kato is Professor in Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She is the author of The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality 1994

• Tài chính doanh nghiệp
• Government Partisanship
• the Effects
• MatureWelfare
• Regressive Taxation
• United Kingdom
• Ambiguous Impact
• State Backlash