Tax Preferences, Fiscal Transparency, and the Meaning of Welfare: An Experimental Study.
What is the effect of providing personally tailored budgetary information on public attitudes to tax and spending? We address this question with a survey experiment based on the annual tax summaries introduced by the UK tax authorities in 2014. By subtly manipulating the categories of state spending...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 830 - 851 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2018
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