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

Gisela Huerlimann, W. Elliot Brownlee, and Eisaku Ide

How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State

Alexander Hertel Fernandez and Cathie Jo Martin

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

Gunnar Lantz

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

Isaac W. Martin

Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark

Shintaro Kurachi

The Powerlessness of Employ in France: The Spread of Income Taxation, 1945-1980

Frances M. B. Lynch

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

W. Elliot Brownlee

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

Seiichiro Mozumi

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

Eisaku Ide

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

Mari Osawa

A Fair Case for Tax Relief: Swiss Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s

Gisela Huerlimann

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

Zoi Pittaki

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

Sara Torregrosa Hetland

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