Alvin Rabushka (born May 15, 1940) is an American political scientist. He is a David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at theHoover Institution atStanford University, and member of theMont Pelerin Society. He is best known for his work ontaxation and transition economies. Together withRobert Hall, he wrote a detailedflat tax plan known as theHall–Rabushka flat tax.

• Taxation in Colonial America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.ISBN 9781400828708
• Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic InstabilityISBN 9780205617616
• From Predation to Prosperity: How to Move from Socialism to Markets (October 20, 2008)
• Fixing Russia's Banks: A Proposal for Growth. Hoover Institution Press, 2013.ISBN 9780817995768
• The Flat TaxISBN 9780817993115

• Rabushka's home page at Stanford
• Rabushka's bio at Washington University in St. Louis
• Rabushka's bio at the Hoover InstitutionArchived 2007-06-26 at theWayback Machine

• an interview with Alvin Rabushka (Sast Report)
• The Flat Tax, by Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka (full text from the Hoover Institution)
• Appearances onC-SPAN
• Roberts, Russ (April 23, 2007)."Rabushka on the Flat Tax".EconTalk.Library of Economics and Liberty.
• "Alvin Rabushka".JSTOR.