Democratic choice and taxation : a theoretical and empirical analysis
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Democratic choice and taxation : a theoretical and empirical analysis
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p.295-320) and indexes
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This work examines tax policies and tax systems as they arise from democratic choices, set against the background of a market economy. Professors Hettich and Winer find that democratic institutions yield complex tax systems with features that follow a varied but predictable pattern. In developing their analysis, the authors use formal modelling of voting behavior, emphasizing recent advances in the theory of probabilistic voting. This book differs from the available tax literature by relating fiscal choices directly to voting and by examining tax systems in democratic countries from a variety of perspectives. While the authors primarily focus on explaining observed features of tax systems, they also devote considerable space to the discussion of the welfare and efficiency effects of taxation in the presence of collective choice, and to a review of other models and of the related literature. In addition, they use computational general equilibrium analysis and statistical research on national and state governments in the US and Canada to link theory to empirical data.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Theoretical Framework: 2. Models of political economy and the study of taxation
- 3. Foundations of democratic tax systems
- 4. Tax structure in equilibrium: a more formal analysis
- Part II. Collective Choice and the Normative Analysis of Taxation: 5. An assessment of normative tax theory
- 6. Welfare politics and taxation
- Part III. Applied General Equilibrium Analysis: 7. Tax policy in a computable model of economic and political equilibrium
- Part IV. Statistical Analysis of Tax Structure: 8. Introduction to statistical research
- 9. Income taxation and special provisions: evidence from the US states
- 10. Debt and tariffs: the evolution of the Canadian revenue system
- Part V. Political Institutions and Taxation: 11. Tax systems in congressional and parliamentary countries
- 12. Conclusion
- Endnotes
- References
- Index.
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