Taxing the State: The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States is a comparative analysis that explores the socioeconomic and political causes and effects of tax policy and budget spending at the state level.
Taxing the State: The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States is a comparative analysis that explores the socioeconomic and political causes and effects of tax policy and budget spending at the state level.
The chapters analyze the level of taxation as political action undertaken by the state. Richard F. Winters makes a key contribution to the politics of taxation by examining the causes and electoral consequences of tax changes and compares the political strategies that governors employ in the face of tax changes.
This book will be of interest for students and scholars of American politics, state and local politics, comparative political economy, and public administration and policy.
List of Contributors Foreword Introduction: Thinking about Taxing and
Spending in the American States I. Taxing Politics.
1. Decomposing the
Aggregates and Deconstructing the Composites of Taxing and Spending in the
States.
2. Political Choice, Taxing, and Expenditure Change: How, Why, and
When Spending Drives Taxing . . . and vice-versa. II. How Party and Ideology
Shape Taxation.
3. Taxing or Not-Taxing as Variables.
4. Tax Policy Changes
in the American States (with Carlisle Rainey and Kevin Stout).
5. Varying
Political Party Control and Tax Changes.
6. Party & Ideology in Governors in
Shaping Tax Changes (with Tyler E. Frisbee and Nicholas Dominguez). III.
Non-obvious Taxing and Spending.
7. The Obscure Tax of Corruption in the
American States (with Amanda Tomlinson)
8. Preferences Matter: How
Charitability Preferences as expressed by Behavior Affect Spending and,
therefore, Taxing (with Dan Rygorsky) IV. Assessing the Consequences of
Taxing via Individual-level Data.
9. The Individual Politics of Taxes and the
Vote (with Brian Stults). V. Electoral Consequences of Taxation Are
Attenuated Via Electoral Strategies
10. Governor Quits! The Strategic
Personal & Political Economy of Foregoing Re-election (with
Rich-Marroncelli).
11. Forget about all that read my lips stuff, OK?: The
Short History of Gubernatorial Election and Re-election Strategies in the
Face of New Tax Programs. VI. Conclusion: politics and taxing.
12. On Why
Government Taxes in the American States Are Rationally Too Small and Poorly
Distributed
Richard F. Winters taught for forty-three years and retired as the William Clinton Story Remsen Class of 43 Professor Emeritus of Government at Dartmouth College. He now lives in Oakton, VA and Williamstown, Massachusetts where he is, as well, a Research Associate with the Department of Political Science at Williams College.
