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Billionaires against Big Business: Growing Tensions in the Republican Party Coalition. Theda Skocpol, April 8, 2016, Paper. "As the Republican Party has shifted further to the right, policy battles have broken out between business associations and conservative groups. We use data from Congressional scorecards issued between 2007 and 2014 to analyze areas of policy divergence and convergence between two major organized players in the GOP…
Congress Makes Tax Policy: Democrats and Republicans at Two Critics. Theda Skocpol, 2016, Book Chapter. "Clashes over tax policy have moved front and center in US politics in recent years, reaching a crescendo in the 2012 election. That contest featured debates over the number of Americans who paid no federal income tax, scrutiny of Republican presidential candidate... " …
Small Business Pressures and Democratic Party Ambivalence in U.S. Tax Politics. Theda Skocpol, May 22, 2015, Paper. "Arguments about national tax policy have taken center stage in U.S. politics in recent times, creating acute dilemmas for Democrats. With Republicans locked into anti-tax agendas for some time, Democrats have recently begun to push back, arguing for maintaining or even increasing taxes on the very wealthy in the name of deficit…