Requisites of radical reform: Income maintenance versus tax preferences
Why did tax reform succeed in gaining passage while the family assistance plan failed? Using cultural theory, we argue that the active consent of elites from three political cultures is required before radical policy proposals will win political support in America. Although the Nixon administration cast the income maintenance plan in integrative terms-support for the family-it failed because egalitarian leaders demanded more. Tax reform succeeded because elites of the three cultures-individualists, egalitarians, and supporters of hierarchy-saw benefits in the plan and were willing to compromise.
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1987
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Authors: | Coyle, Dennis ; Wildavsky, Aaron |
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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 0276-8739. - Vol. 7.1987, 1, p. 1-16
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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