scholarly journals Proposition 13 Fever: How California's Tax Limitation Spread

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac William Martin
1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Smith

During the months immediately preceding California’s June 1978 primary election, Proposition 13, the fractious property tax ballot measure, received a dizzying amount of media attention. Newspaper columnists from California and around the country swapped partisan barbs, debating ad infinitum the initiative’s merits and faults. In public forums, political scientists and economists calculated and recalculated the measure’s possible effects and unintended consequences. Heated letters to the editor and sharp-edged political cartoons saturated the editorial pages of local newspapers. Opinion polls registered the public’s sentiment toward the measure on a weekly basis. Shrill advertisements touting either the necessity or the destructiveness of the proposition interrupted regularly scheduled television and radio programs. Indefatigable Howard Jarvis, the monomaniacal, septuagenarian leader of the tax limitation movement, was seemingly everywhere. By election day, the proponents and opponents of Prop 13 had spent over $2 million each on the measure (CFPPC 1988).


2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
SEIJI FUJII

AbstractThis paper considers the efficiency of the political market in the California State legislature. I analyzed the property tax limitation voter initiative, Proposition 13. I found that districts which supported Proposition 13 more strongly were more likely to oppose the incumbents regardless of whether the incumbents had the different preferences for property taxes from their districts. I also studied how legislators voted on the bills adopted after the passage of Proposition 13 to finance local governments. I found that legislators tended to follow the constituents’ will after they received the voters’ tax-cutting message expressed by the passage of Proposition 13.


1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
LARRY J. KIMBELL ◽  
ANDRE SHIH ◽  
DAVID SHULMAN
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1938 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
EDWARD L. LEAHY
Keyword(s):  

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri A. Sexton ◽  
Steven M. Sheffrin ◽  
Arthur O'Sullivan

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
GEORGE F. BREAK
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