Churches, Taxes and the Constitution

The Politics of Consumption Taxes: Globalization and the Median Voter

The regressive nature of consumption taxes poses a challenge to partisan theory. Using data for up to 20 OECD countries in the period 1970-2003 this article aims to explore the question of whether the idea that social democratic governments typically have to compromise on policy goals and core constituency interests to make themselves more appealing to the median voter necessitates the use of r...

Taxation and the Constitution

Competition and the Strategic Choices of Churches

In this paper, we examine how the decisions of churches are impacted by the decisions of rival churches. Using a novel data set of Christian churches in two suburban Nashville, TN counties, we estimate a model of strategic interaction, based on empirical models of discrete games, which accounts for the location and denomination of churches. We focus on a church’s decision of whether to provide ...

Co-Operation between the Churches and Medicine

A factual account of some of the forms of co-operation between ministers of religion and doctors may well be helpful. Even though the information given is by no means complete, it may surprise many readers to discover how much is going on in this direction. But they need not feel that there are no gaps left to be filled. The Churches' Council of Healing is perhaps the body with most widespread ...

Cognitive Bias and the Constitution