Ideas Versus Resources: Explaining the Flat Tax and Pension Privatization Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-152

  Appel, Hilary ^a   Orenstein, Mitchell A ^b  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; pension privatization; policy diffusion; taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872651784     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414012453036     Document Type: Article

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