Saying Yes to Taxes: The Politics of Tax Reform Campaigns in Three Northwestern States, 1965–19731
Saying Yes to Taxes: The Politics of Tax Reform Campaigns in Three Northwestern States, 1965–19731
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对税收说“是”：1965-19731 年西北三个州税收改革运动的政治
DOI：
10.1086/675386
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Elizabeth Pearson
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作者：
Elizabeth Pearson
本文通过考察20世纪60年代和70年代初美国9个州的投票结果变化，分析了影响民众支持新税的因素。新的税收在五个州获得通过，但在四个州被否决。作者运用比较和历史的方法，以俄勒冈州、华盛顿和爱达荷州为例，认为政策制定的顺序通过三种机制来塑造民众否决权：利益集团的动员、选民对政策的了解以及政策的成本和收益在选民眼中的表现。研究结果表明，选民的看法的潜在收益和损失的一项新政策的社会动员，通过政策的过程。当政策过程中出现民众否决点时进行控制是美国国家建设者用来克服对激进国家财政必要性的矛盾心理的一种未充分研究的策略。
This article analyzes factors shaping popular support for new taxes by examining variation in the outcomes of votes in nine American states during the 1960s and early 1970s. New taxes were endorsed in five states but rejected in four. Using comparative and historical methods focused on the cases of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the author argues that the sequence of policy making shapes popular vetoes through three mechanisms: the mobilization of interest groups, the information available to voters about a policy, and how the costs and benefits of a policy appear to voters. The findings demonstrate that voter perceptions of the potential gains and losses of a new policy are sociologically mobilized through the policy process. Controlling when popular veto points appear in a policy process is an understudied strategy that is employed by American state builders to overcome ambivalence toward the fiscal imperatives of the activist state.