Tasha Fairfield is an assistant professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and degrees in physics from Harvard University, Massachusetts and Stanford University, California. Her research interests include democracy and inequality, business politics, policy formulation, and the political economy of development. Previously, she was a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the International Centre for Tax and Development.
1. Tax policy and economic elites: going where the money is
2. The power of economic elites
3. Organized business and direct taxation in Chile: restricting the agenda
4. Circumventing business power in Chile: progress at the margins
5. Weak economic elites and direct tax policy successes in Argentina
6. Sectoral tax politics in Argentina: finance
7. Sectoral tax politics in Argentina: agriculture
8. Bolivia's tax-policy tightrope: powerful elites and mobilized masses
9. Tax developments under left rule in Bolivia and right rule in Chile
10. Conclusions.
