Worlds of Taxation

Gisela Huerlimann is a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.W. Elliot Brownlee is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Eisaku Ide is a Professor of Economics at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

• The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction.- How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State.- How They All Came to Love the VAT: Consumption Taxes, Big Business, and the Welfare State in Sweden.- Working-Class Power and the Taxation of Current Earnings: Danish Pay-As-You-Earn in Comparative Perspective.- Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark.- The Powerlessness of Employees in France: The Spread of Income Taxation, 1945–1980.- Tax Policy in the United States: Was There a “Neo-liberal” Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s?.- Tax Reformers’ Ideas, the Expenditure-Taxation Nexus, and Comprehensive Tax Reform in the United States, 1961–1986.- The Rise and Fall of the Industrious State: Why Did Japan’s Welfare State Differ from European-Style Models?.- A Reverse-Functioning System: Japan’s Social Security System and Tax Progression in the Early Twenty-First Century.- A Fair Case for Tax Relief: Swiss Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s.- Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Greece, 1955–1989.- Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain.