“…The second is a case-study approach using a variation on the with-and-without quasi-experimental design to examine fiscal policy in a state pre- and post-imposition of the particular TEL (Dye et al., 2005, 2006; Fisher and Gade, 1991; Maher et al, 2011; Skidmore et al, 2010; Springer et al., 2009). Within the case-study approach literature, the two TELs that have been examined the most are Massachusetts's Proposition 2½ (e.g., Bradbury et al., 2001; Cutler et al., 1999; Lang and Jain, 2004) and California's Proposition 13 (e.g., Downes, 1996; Wasi and White, 2005).…”