Bureaucracy and Bi-partisanship in Taxation
The Mellon Plan Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9626091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence L Murray (St. John's School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 200-225 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3113035 |
| OpenAlex | W2330159317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
One of the most durable stereotypes of recent American history is that of the 1920s as “a conservative Republican interlude between the progressive Democratic administrations of Wilson and Roosevelt.” An important feature of this stereotype is the “Mellon plan” for tax reform. Professor Murray demonstrates that there was remarkable unanimity among Republicans and Democrats on the policy issues addressed by the “Mellon plan,” and finds continuity, rather than contrast, between the tax plans of the Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge administrations. As Secretaries of the Treasury came and went between 1918 and 1921, staff assistants cultivated the plan which Mellon later adopted
Bureaucracy · Democracy · Feature (linguistics · Law and economics · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · Treasury · Unanimity · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · History · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2013 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |