Worlds of Taxation

Chapter 1 The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction

Chapter 2 How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State

Chapter 3 How They All Came to Love the VAT: Consumption Taxes, Big Business, and the Welfare State in Sweden

Chapter 4 Working-Class Power and the Taxation of Current Earnings: Danish Pay-As-You-Earn Income Tax in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 5 Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark

Chapter 6 The Powerlessness of Employees in France: The Spread of Income Taxation, 1945–1980

Chapter 7 Tax Policy in the United States: Was There a “Neo-Liberal” Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s?

Chapter 8 Tax Reformers’ Ideas, the Expenditure-Taxation Nexus, and Comprehensive Tax Reform in the United States, 1961–1986

Chapter 9 The Rise and Fall of the Industrious State: Why Did Japan’s Welfare State Differ from European-Style Models?

Chapter 10 A Reverse-Functioning System: Japan’s Social Security System and Tax Progression in the Early Twenty-First Century

Chapter 12 Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Greece, 1955–1989

Chapter 13 Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain