Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State

Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion

Bibliographic Data

ID6320051
AuthorsDuane Swank (Marquette University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume2
Issue3
Pages616-617
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592704690372
OpenAlexW2105043436
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion. By Junko Kato. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 276p. $55.00. Studies of the welfare state in democratic capitalist systems rarely explore comprehensively the political, economic, and institutional linkages between social programs and tax structure; analysts of tax policy rarely explicate systematically the political consequences of tax structure for social benefit programs. Junko Kato's new book is an engaging, albeit incomplete, effort to fill this void

Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Path dependence · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Social policy · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Tax policy · Tax reform · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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