Winning the votes for institutional change: (Record no. 42362)
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Personal name | RADEMACHER Inga |
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Title | Winning the votes for institutional change: |
Remainder of title | how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States/ |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | Inga Rademacher |
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022 |
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Summary, etc. | Since the 1980s, many governments in the Western world have implemented radical income tax cuts which have become associated with soaring levels of inequality. The literature has focused on institutional accounts to explain these developments. However, institutions alone cannot account for the emergence of societal and political support necessary for radical change of this kind. Therefore, this paper explores the role of communication techniques directed at voters, interest groups and legislators to enable radical reform. Based on a content analysis of Congressional debates for the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, contextualised with archival documents from Presidential Libraries, this study shows the critical relevance of strategic acts of compromise to shore up legislative and voter support for radical tax cuts. It finds (a) that change actors have several different acts of strategic compromise (incorporation, compensation, and reconciliation) at their disposal which they use at different points in the legislative process. That (b) the most successful strategies consistently link the coordinative discourse (bargaining with interest groups behind closed doors) and communicative discourse (directed at the public and the minority congressional party). And that (c) change actors learn how to the use successful combinations of compromise over time and thereby enhance reform stability. |
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Bulletin Heading | USA, POLITICS |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | DISCOURSE |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | TAX REFORMS |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | ELECTORAL POLITICS |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | UNITED STATES |
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Main entry heading | Policy Studies : |
Related parts | Vol 43, No. 6, November 2022, pp.1173-1194 |
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Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1946027">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1946027</a> |
Public note | Click here for full text |
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i | 69280.1001 |
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Mindef Library & Info Centre | Mindef Library & Info Centre | Journals | 27/02/2023 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 69280.1001 | 03/01/2024 | 1 | 03/01/2024 | Journal Article |