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A recent workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Government Information Technology Services Board, and the National Institutes of Health investigated the use of information technology within the federal government. A final report on the findings of that workshop was issued in June. This column reflects a summary of those findings; the full report can be found at www.isi.edu/ ...

Washington University

Washington University

Neither the Washington Nor the Post-Washington Consensus: An Introduction*

In 1994 the World Bank and the IMF marked the fiftieth anniversary of their founding meeting at Bretton Woods. The occasion was hardly one of celebration for the two Washington institutions with which official post-war international financial arrangements are most closely identified. For, paradoxically, in the lengthy wake of the Uruguay Round of the GATT, the World Trade Organisation was loomi...

Ebonya Washington, Research

We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of U.S. personal income taxes. We first use individual-level survey data to demonstrate a link between sharing the party of the president and trust in the administration generally and opinions on taxation and spending policy, more specifically. Next, we move to the county level, and measure tax behavior as elections, d...