(A)Voiding the Fiscal Contract: How Tax Evasion Constrains the Politics of Fiscal Redistribution

• In Event: The Politics of Taxation

Brief Overview

My study advances a novel argument about the role that tax evasion plays in shaping individual preferences over tax progressivity. I argue that evasion constrains demand for redistribution and test this hypothesis with a novel survey experiment.

Author

• Simone Paci, Columbia University