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Preface
1
Introduction
1.1
A Method of Elimination
1.2
Structure of the Dissertation
1.3
A Long Story
I Theory
2
Pragmatic Hypotheticals
2.1
The Epistemology of Hypotheticals
2.2
Axioms for Desirable Hypotheticals
2.3
The Ontology of the Doable Hypothetical
3
The Mixed Economy
4
Tax Choice
4.1
Tax Criteria
4.2
Base, Schedule and Timing
4.3
Taxes on Income
4.4
Taxes on Consumption
4.5
Taxes on Wealth
4.6
Non-Taxes
4.7
The Scores
4.8
The Old Hand — Direct, Progressive Taxes: PIT, CIT & Dual PIT
4.9
The Streaker — Local Business Tax (LBT)
4.10
Impotent Redistribution
4.11
Durables
4.12
Introducing the PCT
4.13
Investment vs. Consumption
4.14
Gifts and Bequests
4.15
Imputed Income
4.16
Cross-Border Transactions
4.17
Family
4.18
The Formula for the PCT
4.19
Work/Play, A Constructed and Diffuse Border On Which Taxation Depends
4.20
Stratification, Elsewhere.
4.21
An Angel in Tax
5
A Tale of Three Crises
5.1
A Crippled Mixed economy
5.2
Possible Better Worlds
5.3
Better Taxation
5.4
Better Democracy
5.5
Bad Tax
5.6
Deliberation and Democracy
5.7
Misunderstanding Tax
5.8
A Vicious Cycle
5.9
Critique of the Literature
5.10
Why it Matters: The Welfare State as Mixed Economy
5.11
Tax
5.12
Dysfunctions
5.13
An Old Deal
5.14
Why Tax Matters to Democracy
5.15
The Social Contract
II Methods
6
Research Design
6.1
Open Second-Order Questions
6.2
Hypotheses
6.3
Methods
6.4
Expected Results
6.5
State of the field
6.6
Research Questions
6.7
Hypotheses
6.8
Public Finance and Welfare State Research
6.9
Public Choice and Political Economy
6.10
Conclusion
7
The CiviCon Citizen Conference
7.1
Reciprocity
7.2
Remedial Deliberation
7.3
Format
7.4
Implementation
8
Q Methodology
III Results
9
Field Report
9.1
Recruiting
9.2
Schedule
9.3
Field Data
9.4
Press Conference
10
Deliberative Subjectivities
10.1
Administration
10.2
Data Import
10.3
Import
10.4
Participant Feedback
10.5
Missing Data
10.6
Q Method Analysis
10.7
(No) Descriptives
10.8
Correlations
10.9
Factor Extraction
10.10
Loadings
10.11
Factor scores
10.12
Interpretation
10.13
Discussion
10.14
Factor changes
11
Preference Structuration
IV Discussion
12
Conclusion
12.1
Limitations
12.2
Better Deliberation
12.3
Further Research
13
Epilogue
13.1
The Great Unravelling: Why we Must Now Embrace Complexity to Avoid a Return to Fascism
13.2
Second Best
Statement of Authorship
References
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