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What do the academics say? Tax and public support

By Mark Pack | Thu 9th December 2010 - 8:54 am

Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. This time it is a paper from David Brockington (University of Plymouth) and Todd Donovan (Western Washington University) looking at the political impact of increasing taxes.

After reviewing the work of others in this area, they focus in on council tax levels and election results in English local councils, comparing the performance of Labour and Conservative against changes in council tax levels:

We have tested if governments that presided over marginal increases in existing taxes lost vote share and seat share in the subsequent election. We find that

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Posted in What do the academics say? | Also tagged council tax, david brockington, featured and tax | 5 Comments

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