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  • Dysfunctional policy transfer in national tax blacklists

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    Sharman, JC
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    Sharman, Jason C.
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    Common sense and much of the policy transfer literature suggests that learning from abroad delivers better policy at lower cost. In contrast, this article argues that policy transfer in tax blacklists has been a dysfunctional process tending to replicate errors. Rather than reflecting learning, normative mimicry, or market pressures, over-committed policymakers have responded to complexity and crisis by unreflectively cutting and pasting from foreign models. Facing a short-term political imperative to "do something" about tax evasion in an environment of fiscal crisis, many policy makers have compiled blacklists of tax havens ...
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    Common sense and much of the policy transfer literature suggests that learning from abroad delivers better policy at lower cost. In contrast, this article argues that policy transfer in tax blacklists has been a dysfunctional process tending to replicate errors. Rather than reflecting learning, normative mimicry, or market pressures, over-committed policymakers have responded to complexity and crisis by unreflectively cutting and pasting from foreign models. Facing a short-term political imperative to "do something" about tax evasion in an environment of fiscal crisis, many policy makers have compiled blacklists of tax havens by copying lists of "the usual suspects" from abroad. Evidence for both the process of transfer and the dysfunctional nature of resulting policy is provided by tracking recurring errors in these lists that are unlikely to have arisen independently.
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    Journal Title
    Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions
    Volume
    23
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01501.x
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Blackwell Publishing. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Dysfunctional policy transfer in national tax blacklists, Governance Volume 23, Issue 4, pages 623–639, October 2010, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.111/j.1468-0491.2010.01501.x
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Comparative government and politics
    Other law and legal studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/35066
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