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The Politics of Consumption Taxes: Globalization and the Median Voter

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  • Mahnoush Abdollah Milani

    (Faculty of Economics, Allameh Tabatabai University,Tehran, Iran.)

  • Arian Daneshmand

    (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

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The regressive nature of consumption taxes poses a challenge to partisan theory. Using data for up to 20 OECD countries in the period 1970-2003 this article aims to explore the question of whether the idea that social democratic governments typically have to compromise on policy goals and core constituency interests to make themselves more appealing to the median voter necessitates the use of regressive consumption tax policies. The results suggest that the position of the median voter determines the actions of social democratic governments regarding regressive consumption taxes when globalization is pronounced.

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  • Mahnoush Abdollah Milani & Arian Daneshmand, 2014. "The Politics of Consumption Taxes: Globalization and the Median Voter," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 18(2), pages 1-24, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:eut:journl:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:1
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