Alvin Rabushka (born May 15, 1940) is an American political scientist. He is a David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the

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, and member of the

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. He is best known for his work on

taxation A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on an individual or legal person, legal entity by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to Pigouvian tax, regulate and reduce nega ...

and transition economies. Together with Robert Hall, he wrote a detailed

flat tax A flat tax (short for flat-rate tax) is a tax with a single rate on the taxable amount, after accounting for any deductions or exemptions from the tax base. It is not necessarily a fully proportional tax. Implementations are often progressi ...

plan known as the Hall–Rabushka flat tax.

Publications

* ''Taxation in Colonial America''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. * ''Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability'' * ''From Predation to Prosperity: How to Move from Socialism to Markets'' (October 20, 2008) * ''Fixing Russia's Banks: A Proposal for Growth.'' Hoover Institution Press, 2013. * ''The Flat Tax''

References

Rabushka's home page at Stanford

External links

(Sast Report)

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