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What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?

In: Choice and Public Policy

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  • Lindsay Brook

    (Social and Community Planning Research)

  • Ian Preston

    (University College London
    Institute for Fiscal Studies)

  • John Hall

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Abstract

Year after year, evidence from the Social and Community Planning Research’s annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey and elsewhere consistently shows both high levels of public support for increased spending on such front line public services as education and the National Health Service alongside a marked reluctance for individuals to countenance increases in their own tax bills. Using evidence from the 1995 BSA survey, we examine the popularity of seven major spending programmes (health, education, the police, defence, the environment, culture and the arts and public transport), linking any advocated changes in spending explicitly to the resultant changes in tax payments for the respondent’s household.

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  • Lindsay Brook & Ian Preston & John Hall, 1998. "What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Taylor-Gooby (ed.), Choice and Public Policy, chapter 5, pages 79-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26302-8_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26302-8_5
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    1. Rinaldo Brau & Gianluca Fiorentini & Matteo Lippi Bruni & Anna Maria Pinna, 2004. "La disponibilità a pagare per la copertura del rischio di non autosufficienza: analisi econometrica e valutazioni di "policy"," Politica economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 357-388.
    2. John Hall & Ian Preston, 1998. "Public and private choice in UK health insurance," IFS Working Papers W98/19, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    3. Declan French & Frank Kee & Mark O'Doherty, 2016. "Inequality and Regional Variations in Perceptions of Work Disability: Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing," CHaRMS Working Papers 16-04, Centre for HeAlth Research at the Management School (CHaRMS).
    4. Abbott, Andrew & Jones, Philip, 2021. "Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    5. Rinaldo Brau & M. Lippi Bruni & Am Pinna, 2004. "Public vs private demand for covering long term care expenditures," Working Paper CRENoS 200408, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    6. Cormac O'Dea & Ian Preston, 2012. "The distributional impact of public spending in the UK," IFS Working Papers W12/06, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    7. Hall, John & Preston, Ian, 2000. "Tax price effects on attitudes to hypothecated tax increases," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(3), pages 417-438, March.
    8. Carol Propper, 2001. "Expenditure on healthcare in the UK: a review of the issues," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 22(2), pages 151-183, June.

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