Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (ix, 353 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Elizabeth Popp Berman

Committee Members

Aaron Major, Richard Lachmann, Peter Brandon

Keywords

Fiscal policy, Social policy

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

This dissertation examines the politics behind the increasing use of tax expenditures as tools for social policy in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Tax expenditures, particularly in-work and child tax credits, have grown into major components of social policy across a number of countries since the 1970s. While some scholars have noted this increasing "fiscalization" of social policy, our current theories of welfare states struggle to explain this expansion across all three countries in an era of "permanent austerity" as well as variation in the distribution of these tax credits between the U.S. on one hand and Canada and the U.K. on the other hand.

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