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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...

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Published in:Political Studies Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 830 - 851
Main Authors: Stanley, Liam, Hartman, Todd K.
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Nov2018
Subjects:
United Kingdom
Public welfare
Fiscal policy
Budget
History
Public opinion on taxes
Tax expenditures
Transparency in government
Surveys
History of public spending
Twenty-first century
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