Policy Design and the Politics of City Revenue
Evidence from California Municipal Ballot Measures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac William Martins (0000-0002-7470-636X, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, corresponding author), Jane Lilly López (0000-0002-8000-3433, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA), Lauren D Olsen (0000-0001-6012-867X, University of California San Diego), Lauren Olsen (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1312-1338 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087417752474 |
| OpenAlex | W2793696336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 52 |
Residents of the United States rely on municipal governments to deliver important public goods but are often reluctant to pay for those goods. Can tax policy design affect voters’ propensity to say yes to local taxes? We answer this question by analyzing a new database of 929 tax increases of heterogeneous design that were proposed to California voters from 1996 to 2010. We find that voters’ willingness to raise a municipal tax varies with the choice of tax base, as well as with such policy design features as its timing and its symbolic links to particular purposes. The political limits on city revenue may vary substantially depending on how a tax is designed, and theories that assume otherwise—including several classic models of urban politics—may exaggerate the degree to which municipal revenues are constrained
Ballot · Business · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Revenue · Tax policy · Tax reform · Tax revenue · Urban politics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Taxation and Compliance Studies · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |