Taxing the State

List of Contributors Foreword Introduction: Thinking about Taxing and Spending in the American States I. Taxing Politics. 1. Decomposing the Aggregates and Deconstructing the Composites of Taxing and Spending in the States. 2. Political Choice, Taxing, and Expenditure Change: How, Why, and When Spending Drives Taxing . . . and vice-versa. II. How Party and Ideology Shape Taxation. 3. Taxing or Not-Taxing as Variables. 4. Tax Policy Changes in the American States (with Carlisle Rainey and Kevin Stout). 5. Varying Political Party Control and Tax Changes. 6. Party & Ideology in Governors in Shaping Tax Changes (with Tyler E. Frisbee and Nicholas Dominguez). III. Non-obvious Taxing and Spending. 7. The Obscure Tax of Corruption in the American States (with Amanda Tomlinson) 8. Preferences Matter: How Charitability Preferences as expressed by Behavior Affect Spending and, therefore, Taxing (with Dan Rygorsky) IV. Assessing the Consequences of Taxing via Individual-level Data. 9. The Individual Politics of Taxes and the Vote (with Brian Stults). V. Electoral Consequences of Taxation Are Attenuated Via Electoral Strategies 10. "Governor Quits!" The Strategic Personal & Political Economy of Foregoing Re-election (with 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. VI. Conclusion: politics and taxing. 12. On Why Government Taxes in the American States Are Rationally Too Small and Poorly Distributed