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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the \n\nZoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/qV4ZD.\n   \n   Japan is a critical case in a comparative array of welfare states. Contemporary welfare states achieve higher equality by raising revenue from a regressive consumption tax than from a progressive income tax to be redistributed through public expenditures. As Professor Kato will discuss\, the politics of taxation matters for this unexpected consequence among long democracies.\n   \n   Junko Kato (PhD\, Yale University) is a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on comparative politics on taxation and the welfare state\, party coalitions and government formation\, and neuro-cognitive analyses of social decisions and behavior. She has authored articles in *American Political Science Review\, British Journal of Political Science\, Electoral Studies\, Governance\,* in addition to two books\, *The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality* (Princeton University Press\, 1994) and *Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State* (Cambridge University Press\, 2003)\, and numerous book chapters. Professor Kato served as co-editor-in-chief of *Japanese Journal of Political Science* (2019~2023) and has been on the editorial boards of several journals\, including *British Journal of Political Science* (1996~2016)\, *Perspectives on Public Management and Governance* (2016~)\, and *Journal of East Asian Studies* (2021~). She has launched neuro-cognitive approaches to social sciences and published articles on fMRI experiments of human decision and behavior in *Frontiers in Neuroscience\, Scientific Reports\, and Cerebral Cortex.*\n   \n   *This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129980
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Japanese Studies,Politics
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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