Defiance in Taxation and Governance: Resisting and Dismissing Authority in a Democracy

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2009 - Political Science - 384 pages
[Valerie] Braithwaite merges her considerable knowledge of a wide range of disciplines to produce an exemplar of interdisciplinary research. The use of the taxation system as the basis for analysis of how people manage their relationship with authority is

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1 Defiance to resist or dismiss institutional constraint
1
2 Defiance and responsive regulatory relationships
26
3 The expression and management of motivational postures
60
4 Measuring motivational postures and defiance
101
5 Approaching defi ance through threat and coping
137
6 Approaching defiance through integrity and trust
175
7 Approaching defiance through social modelling
214
8 Integrative models of defiance
248
9 Reasoning with defiance
292
Appendices
314
References
318
Index
353
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Valerie Braithwaite, The Australian National University

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