The stated aim of providing personalised tax receipts to income taxpayers is to enhance fiscal transparency, but doing so may also damage support for state spending if the documents provide a sense that current redistributive policies are unfair. This article analyses these dynamics through a...

The British public have seemingly accepted the inevitability of the Coalition-government's ambitious fiscal consolidation plan despite the fact that it may harm many. In this context of general acquiescence, many existing accounts appeal to elites: notably, how the narration of a Debt Crisis has...