Alvin Rabushka

Biographic Data

ID113070
NAMEAlvin Rabushka
GIVEN NAMESAlvin
FAMILY NAMERabushka
SIGNATURERABUSHKA A
AFFILIATIONSHoover Institution
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS54
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX3

  • Taxation in Colonial America

    Alvin RabushkaBOOKTaxation in Colonial America2010

  • Red Flag over Hong Kong

    Jean-Marc F Blanchard, Jean‐marc F Blanchard et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1999

    Part 1 Background to Hong Kong - to go or stay? - an overview of Hong Kong: the sweet and sour of China words have meaning, or do they?. Part 2 forecasting the future - China after Deng: the future of Hong Kong fortune cookies. Appendixes

  • City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future

    Alvin Rabushka, Kevin RaffertyARTICLEPacific Affairs1991

    This is an investigative portrait of Hong Kong's history and society. The book examines its role as a business centre and deals with the question mark over its future. The author is a journalist and the founder editor of the Asian and Pacific Review yearbook

  • Books in review

    Open AccessSuzanne Keller, Vladimir Tismaneanu et al.ARTICLESociety1987

  • Asia's Miracle Economies

    Alvin Rabushka, Jon WoronoffARTICLEPacific Affairs1987

    An expanded and updated edition of Woronoff's 1986 study of Asia's emerging economic giants, this book looks back at what has happened in the intervening years, especially as regards the discovery of this phenomenon in the Western media and the overreactive hype that has accompanied it. As the author puts it: My purpose is to show how these countries, which hitherto has been quite unremarkable, began to develop vigorously. What policies and strat…

  • Forecasting Political Events: The Future of Hong Kong

    Kenneth Robinson, Bruce Bueno De Mesquita et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1987

  • Making Tax Choices

    Open AccessPaul N Courant, Joseph J Minarik et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1986

  • Society and Politics in Hong Kong

    Alvin Rabushka, Lau Siu-KaiARTICLEPacific Affairs1984

  • Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California, by David O. Sears and Jack Citrin

    Open AccessAlvin RabushkaREVIEWPolitical Science Quarterly1983

    A tax revolt almost as momentous as the Boston Tea Party erupted in California in 1978. Its reverberations are still being felt, yet no one is quite sure what general lessons can be drawn from observing its course. This book is an in-depth study of this most recent and notable taxpayers' rebellion: Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13, the Gann measure of 1979, and Proposition 9 (Jarvis II) of 1980. The people of California, speaking directly through…

  • The tax revolt

    Alvin RabushkaBOOKThe tax revolt1982Cited by: 28

  • The Business Environment in Hong Kong

    Alvin Rabushka, David G LethbridgeARTICLEPacific Affairs1981

    Published in 1980, the first edition of The Business Environment in Hong Kong provided a stimulating and comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political workings of Hong Kong, its financial and legal structure, and the course of foreign investment in the territory. Now wholly updated, and with information pertaining to the 1997 reversion of the territory to Chinese sovereignty, this classic text continues to provide an easily usable …

  • Aging Parents

    Anna M Staubus, Timothy H Brubaker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1981

  • The United States in the 1980s

    Gaddis Smith, Peter Duignan et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1980

  • Hong Kong

    James Riedel, Alvin RabushkaARTICLEPacific Affairs1980

  • The Government and Politics of Hong Kong

    Alvin Rabushka, Norman MinersARTICLEPacific Affairs1979

  • Foreign Investment and Domestic Response

    Alvin Rabushka, Kunio YoshiharaARTICLEPacific Affairs1977

  • Value for Money: The Hong Kong Budgetary Process

    Sandra Kirby, Stuart Kirby et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1976

  • The Changing Face of Hong Kong. New Departures in Public Policy

    Graham E Johnson, Alvin RabushkaARTICLEPacific Affairs1974

  • A diagrammatic exposition of an economic theory of imperialism

    Open AccessPaul Craig Roberts, Paul Roberts et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice1973

  • The Politics of Urban Development in Singapore. Robert E. Gamer

    Alvin RabushkaARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1973

  • Race and Politics in Urban Malaya

    Gordon P Means, Alvin RabushkaARTICLEPacific Affairs1973

  • Serving the elderly?—an illustration of the niskanen effect

    Open AccessRichard S Sterne, Alvin Rabushka et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice1972

  • Racial Stereotypes in Malaya

    Alvin RabushkaARTICLEAsian Survey1971Cited by: 3

    Research Article| July 01 1971 Racial Stereotypes in Malaya Alvin Rabushka Alvin Rabushka Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1942) 11 (7): 709–716. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642976 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alvin Rabushka…

  • Political Entrepreneurship and Patterns of Democratic Instability in Plural Societies

    Open AccessAlvin Rabushka, Kenneth A ShepsleARTICLERace1971Cited by: 14

  • A Note on Overseas Chinese Political Participation in Urban Malaya

    Open AccessAlvin RabushkaARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review1970Cited by: 2

    The object of this note is to demonstrate that generalizations about political participation may be invalid when applied to “developing” or “transitional” societies. Specifically, the relationship between rates of voter turnout and levels of education for urban Chinese in Malaya is not consistent with results reported for Western societies. A geographical classification of bibliographic entries in Lester Milbrath's Political Participation disclos…