Background
Alvin Rabushka was born on May 15, 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Washington University in St. Louis where Alvin Rabushka studied.
Alvin Rabushka with Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia, at a conference entitled “The Baltic Twins,” sponsored by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum in Tallinn, Estonia, August 28, 2006.
Alvin Rabushka signs copies of the Chinese edition of The Flat Tax at People’s University, Beijing, China, November 17, 2003.
Alvin Rabushka at Tax seminar on December 16, 1997.
Alvin Rabushka delivering the annual Huang Da - Robert Mundell Economic Lecture at People's University, Beijing, China, November 17, 2003.
(Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle...)
Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate – in a new epilogue – the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Plural-Societies-Democratic-Instability/dp/0205617611/?tag=2022091-20
1972
(This book brings the colonial period to life in all its r...)
This book brings the colonial period to life in all its rich complexity, and shows how colonial attitudes toward taxation offer a unique window into the causes of the revolution.
https://www.amazon.com/Taxation-Colonial-America-Alvin-Rabushka-ebook/dp/B00EM3228Y/?tag=2022091-20
2008
Alvin Rabushka was born on May 15, 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Alvin Rabushka studied at Washington University in St. Louis where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Far Eastern studies in 1962. After that, he went to Hong Kong to learn the Chinese language.
Rabushka also received his Master of Arts degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science from Washington University. In 2007, Alvin Rabushka was honored as a distinguished alumnus of the School of Arts and Sciences at Washington University.
Alvin Rabushka started his career as a professor of political science at the University of Rochester in 1968. In 1976 he left this post and became a research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Rabushka published his first book Politics in Plural Societies in 1972. He published books on the flat tax, which provided the intellectual foundation for numerous flat tax bills that were introduced in Congress during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1980, he served on President Ronald Reagan's Tax Policy Task Force.
His pioneering work on the flat tax contributed to the adoption of the flat tax in Jamaica, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Mongolia, Mauritius, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Trinidad and Tobago, Pridnestrovie (Transdniestra), several Swiss Cantons, and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also published such books as A Theory of Racial Harmony; The Urban Elderly Poor; Old Folks at Home. His most recent publication is Taxation in Colonial America, published in 2008. Rabushka has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and in national newspapers.
(Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle...)
1972(This book brings the colonial period to life in all its r...)
2008Alvin Rabushka is a David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.