Court hears Bavaria's tax case

Germany’s Constitutional Court began hearing Bavaria’s case on inheritance-tax regionalization, a proposal federal officials warn could spur tax competition among states.

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin, Tim Bale, Tom van der Meer , and 2 more Jonathan Hopkin, Tim Bale, Tom van der Meer, Claudia Landwehr, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

27%

Scholar power: 27.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 45%, Economics 35%, Political science 20%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jonathan Hopkin	13%	29	7.0%
🎓 Tim Bale	11%	35	6.5%
🎓 Tom van der Meer	10%	35	5.9%
🎓 Claudia Landwehr	11%	17	4.5%
🎓 Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte	9%	15	3.5%
Total			27.4%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

50.0%

60.1 h

27.4%

Ranking score

0.017

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Daniel Devine

@danjdevine.bsky.social

Inheritance taxation is unpopular, even amongst people who are unlikely to ever have to pay it. Why?

In four different studies - experiment! panels! behaviour! - @cvalebeek.bsky.social and I show political trust is a strong predictor for support for the tax.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....