Public Support for Raising Taxes on Businesses or Exempting Businesses from Providing Benefits: California’s Proposition 15 and 22

• In Event: Tradeoff and Cross-Pressures in Vote Choice

Brief Overview

This study leverages a natural experiment to compare partisan defectors in terms of voting on two CA ballot measures in 2020; one to raise taxes on businesses and the other to exempt businesses from paying benefits to workers (Prop 15 & 22).

Authors

• Caroline J. Tolbert, University of Iowa

• Samuel Franklin Harper, University of Iowa

• Eveline M Dowling, University of California-Davis