Abstract
This paper attempts to assess the strength and direction of the attitudinal consequences of the tax revolt. An initial taxonomy of potential attitudinal effects is developed in the first section via a brief examination of the attitude-based explanations of the revolt. Those effect hypotheses are then tested via a pretest-posttest comparison group design analysis of 1976, 1978, and 1980 American National Election Study data. The results of those tests are discussed in the final section.
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Lowery, D. The attitudinal consequences of the tax revolt. Polit Behav 4, 333–352 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00986968
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Keywords
- Comparison Group
- Final Section
- Study Data
- Group Design
- Design Analysis