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Overview

Sven Steinmo was affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research predominantly spanned the fields of social sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, and business, management and accounting.

The subfields that characterized their work included economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, safety research, accounting, and gender studies.

The main topics addressed in their publications involved taxation and compliance studies, fiscal policies and political economy, experimental behavioral economics studies, corporate taxation and avoidance, electoral systems and political participation, local government finance and decentralization, as well as gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Among their coauthors, Sven Steinmo frequently collaborated with John D'Attoma, Kim-Lee Tuxhorn, Áron Székely, David M. Bruner, and Arpad Todor.

The venues where they regularly published included Politics & Policy, Public Administration, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Economic and Political Studies, and Harvard Dataverse.

Their recent papers included the following:

  • Do Citizens Want Something for Nothing? Mass Attitudes and the Federal Budget, 2021, Politics & Policy
  • Assessing the stability of fiscal attitudes: Evidence from a survey experiment, 2021, Public Administration
  • Preferences for honesty can support cooperation, 2023, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Do experienced subjects bias experimental results? Evidence from 16 laboratories in six countries, 2022, Economic and Political Studies
  • Replication Data for: Assessing the Stability of Fiscal Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment, 2021, Harvard Dataverse

Steinmo published a book titled Willing to Pay? in 2021 through Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

    Kathleen Thelen

  • Taxation and democracy

    Sven Steinmo

  • Structuring politics: List of contributors

    Sven Steinmo;Kathleen Thelen;Frank Longstreth

  • The New Political Economy of Taxation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

    Duane Swank;Sven Steinmo

  • Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.

    Edwin Amenta;Sven Steinmo

  • It's the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America

    Sven Steinmo;Jon Watts

  • The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States

    Sven Steinmo

  • Political Institutions and Tax Policy in the United States, Sweden, and Britain

    Sven Steinmo

  • Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: Historical institutionalism

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  • The Evolution of Policy Ideas: Tax Policy in the 20th Century

    Sven Steinmo

  • Do libraries matter? Public libraries and the creation of social capital

    Andreas Vårheim;Sven Steinmo;Eisaku Ide

  • Do Institutions Really Matter? Taxation in Industrialized Democracies

    Sven Steinmo;Caroline J. Tolbert

  • How Institutions Evolve: Evolutionary Theory and Institutional Change

    Orion A Lewis;Sven Steinmo

  • Restructuring the welfare state : political institutions and policy change

    Bo Rothstein;Sven Steinmo

  • Globalization and Taxation: Challenges to the Swedish Welfare State

    Sven Steinmo

  • The End of Redistribution? International Pressures and Domestic Tax Policy Choices

    Sven Steinmo

  • Are Some Countries More Honest than Others? Evidence from a Tax Compliance Experiment in Sweden and Italy

    Giulia Andrighetto;Nan Zhang;Stefania Ottone;Ferruccio Ponzano

  • Social Democracy vs. Socialism: Goal Adaptation in Social Democratic Sweden:

    Sven Steinmo

  • "Willing to Pay?" Tax Compliance in Britain and Italy: An Experimental Analysis

    Nan Zhang;Giulia Andrighetto;Giulia Andrighetto;Stefania Ottone;Ferruccio Ponzano

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions

    Mark Blyth;Geoffrey M. Hodgson;Orion Lewis;Sven Steinmo

  • Taxation and democracy : Swedish, British and American approaches to financing the modern state

    James R. Marchand;Sven Steinmo

  • Bucking the Trend? The Welfare State and the Global Economy: The Swedish Case Up Close

    Sven Steinmo

  • The Evolution of Modern States: Contents

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  • Willing to share? Tax compliance and gender in Europe and America:

    John D’Attoma;Clara Volintiru;Clara Volintiru;Sven Steinmo;Sven Steinmo

  • Taking Evolution Seriously

    Orion Lewis;Sven Steinmo

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Rothstein
Bo Rothstein University of Gothenburg
Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth Brown University
Johan P. Olsen
Johan P. Olsen University of Oslo
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Geoffrey M. Hodgson Loughborough University
Karen S. Cook
Karen S. Cook Stanford University
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Paul Dimaggio
Paul Dimaggio New York University
Fred C. Pampel
Fred C. Pampel University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Walter W. Powell
Walter W. Powell Stanford University

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