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SUMMARY:Where's The Money Coming From? How Tax And Spending Debates Frame 
 Electoral Politics - Dr Peter Sloman\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Guy Mulley
DESCRIPTION:Tax and spending are central to democratic politics in the UK 
 and \nelsewhere\, but political scientists have paid surprisingly little \
 nattention to the practice of manifesto costings or the ways in which \nfi
 scal promises shape voting behaviour. This paper explores how British \npa
 rties have used manifesto costings to frame prospective choices for \nvote
 rs since the 1950s\, and develops a theoretical framework for \nunderstand
 ing why warnings about ‘tax bombshells’ and ‘black holes’ in \npar
 ties' spending plans seem to be so powerful in Westminster \ndemocracies s
 uch as the UK. Whereas retrospective evaluations of \neconomic performance
  can be difficult for governments to control\, \nforward-looking fiscal de
 bates are structurally weighed towards \nincumbent parties. Other constitu
 tional structures may have very \ndifferent implications for the role of p
 ublic opinion in the tax \npolicy-making process.
LOCATION:Online - email gevm2@cam.ac.uk for the login details
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