The social and political world of the “aspirational class”
Changing attitudes to taxation philosophies and policies
Research program: Globalisation and International Development
The research employs taxation as a medium for investigating how members of a
publicly valorised social group from politically strategic electorates (the so-called aspirational
class) understand and accept current taxation and related policies and their apparent ideological
and philosophical bases. Furthermore, in a broader but complimentary sense, through these investigations,
the research seeks to answer the question of whether recent discursive constructions and policy
settings are, as their proponents maintain, reflective of an “Australian version”
of liberalism, or is actually indicative of a broader political/philosophical project aimed at
radically reshaping social, political and economic norms (and expectations) in a manner that bears
little relationship with conventional understandings of liberalism.
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