1st Edition
Taxing the State The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction: thinking about taxing and spending in the American States
Richard F. Winters
I. Taxing politics
1. Decomposing the aggregates and deconstructing the composites of taxing and spending in the American States
Richard F. Winters
2. Political choice, taxing, and expenditure change: how, why, and when spending drives taxing . . . and vice versa
Richard F. Winters
II. How party and ideology shape taxation
3. Taxing or not-taxing as variables
Richard F. Winters
4. Tax policy changes in the American States
Carlisle Rainey, Kevin Stout and Richard F. Winters
5. Varying political party control and tax changes
Richard F. Winters
6. Party and ideology in governors in shaping tax changes
Richard F. Winters, Nicholas Dominguez and Tyler E. Frisbee
III. Non-obvious taxing and spending
7. The obscure tax of corruption in the American States
Richard F. Winters and Amanda Tomlinson
8. Preferences matter: how charitability preferences as expressed by behavior affect spending and, therefore, taxing
Richard F. Winters and Dan Rygorsky
IV. Assessing the consequences of taxing via individual-level data
9. The individual politics of taxes and the vote
Brian G. Stults and Richard F. Winters
V. Electoral consequences of taxation are attenuated via electoral strategies
10. “Governor Quits!” the strategic personal & political economy of foregoing re-election
Richard F. Winters and Melissa Rich-Marroncelli
11. “Forget about all that ‘read my lips’ stuff, OK?”: the short history of gubernatorial election and re-election strategies in the face of new tax programs
Richard F. Winters
VI. Conclusion: politics and taxing
12. On why government taxes in the American States are rationally too small and poorly distributed
Richard F. Winters
Biography
Richard F. Winters taught for forty‑three years and retired as the William Clinton Story Remsen Class of ‘43 Professor Emeritus of Government at Dartmouth College. He now lives in Oakton, VA, and Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he is also a research associate with the Department of Political Science at Williams College.
