This innovative book presents a theory of tax defiance, integrating five years of research on people’s hopes, fears and expectations of the tax system and the authority that administers it.
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Defiance in Taxation and Governance
Resisting and Dismissing Authority in a Democracy
Valerie Braithwaite
Regulatory Capitalism
How it Works, Ideas for Making it Work Better
John Braithwaite
Contemporary societies have more vibrant markets than past ones. Yet they are more heavily populated by private and public regulators. This book explores the features of such a regulatory capitalism, its tendencies to be cyclically crisis-ridden, ritualistic and governed through networks. New ways of thinking about resultant policy challenges are developed.
Regulating Aged Care
Ritualism and the New Pyramid
John Braithwaite, Toni Makkai and Valerie Braithwaite
This book is a major contribution to regulatory theory from three members of the world-class regulatory research group based in Australia. It marks a new development in responsive regulatory theory in which a strengths-based pyramid complements the regulatory pyramid.