Difficulties in Achieving Coherent State and Local Fiscal Policy at the Intersection of Direct Democracy and Republicanism: The Property Tax as a Case in Point

Mildred W. Robinson;

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Difficulties in Achieving Coherent State and Local Fiscal Policy at the Intersection of Direct Democracy and Republicanism: The Property Tax as a Case in Point

Mildred W. Robinson

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University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

DATE

2002

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Mildred W. Robinson, Difficulties in Achieving Coherent State and Local Fiscal Policy at the Intersection of Direct Democracy and Republicanism: The Property Tax as a Case in Point, 35 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 511–568 (2002).

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