Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System
Description
State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing states. Glenn Beamer uses a series of in-depth case studies in eleven states to show how legislators made decisions dealing with taxation, economic development, education financing, and Medicaid.Beamer identifies six factors that influence legislators' decisions: accountability, dependabil...
ISBN(s)
0472110209, 9780472110209
