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1	Examining the 2013 Kansas state income tax changes and their impact on job creation Blagg, Brandon January 1900 (has links) Master of Arts / Department of Economics / Tracy Turner / I analyze the impact of Kansas House Bills HB 2117 and HB 2059, which made changes to the personal income tax structure and sales tax rates in the state of Kansas in 2012 and beyond. Using county-level, quarterly data gathered from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, I examine a full sample of Kansas and its four bordering states; Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma in order to determine the impact the tax changes had on the private sector employment in the state of Kansas. I subsequently use Kansas county-level, quarterly data to create a sample of Kansas border counties and their border pair matches, which consist of their adjacent counties in the neighboring states, to employ a differencing model to examine those same effects. With this analysis I isolate the policy change taking place in Kansas in 2012 and assess its impact controlling for the impact of the state corporate income tax, individual income tax, and sales tax rates on private sector employment in Kansas counties. My findings indicate that Kansas has not experienced an increase in private sector employment due to this policy change, but rather has perhaps seen private sector employment levels fall in the year following the enactment of the policy change. Tax Kansas Employment Brownback Income tax Economics (0501) Public Policy and Social Welfare (0630)
2	Political contradictions : discussions of virtue in American life LaVally, Rebecca 26 January 2011 (has links) This dissertation asserts that American political culture faces a crisis of virtue and explores the role of citizens, journalists and politicians in fostering it. The historic election of Barack Obama on a platform of hope and change in 2008 suggests that Americans yearn for an infusion of virtue into political life. I assert, however, that we have lacked a lexicon of political virtue, or any systematic understanding of which virtues we value and which matter most to us. Nor have we understood whether groups who constitute key elements of our democracy—citizens, journalists, politicians, men and women, Democrats and Republicans—value virtues in politics similarly or differently. Without a working knowledge of the anatomy of virtue in the body politic, what is to prevent us from having to change again? By charting the virtue systems of these key groups, I have made explicit what is implicit to reveal that political virtue is more valued—and more present—than Americans likely realize. This exploration, I believe, contributes to the scholarship of political communication by enabling a fuller and more useful understanding of American political culture—and of the contradictions, curiosities, and surprises that enrich it. / text American politics Party politics Political virtue Newspapers M. Jodi Rell Christopher Dodd John Baldacci Olympia Snowe Kathleen Sebelius Sam Brownback Dianne Feinstein Arnold Schwarzenegger Political ethics Political capital Masculine virtue Feminine virtue Letters to the editor Political websites Political integrity Political liking Female politicians Women politicians News frames Media mores Media norms Celebrity politics American public life Political journalists Political reporting Media agenda setting Political campaigns Crisis of virtue Political immediacy Political androgyny Rhetoric

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Political contradictions : discussions of virtue in American life