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1 online resource. |
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Open Access e-Books.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2018) |
| Contents |
Cover; The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1: Introduction: The Leap of Faith; The Leap of Faith; The Co-Evolution of Political Culture and Political Institutions; Fiscal Capacity and the Evolution of Modern States; Sweden; Italy; Britain; The USA; Romania; Conclusion: The State as Predator?; Notes; References; Part II: Sweden |
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2: Getting to Sweden: The Origins of High Compliance in the Swedish Tax StateIntroduction; Monitoring Capacity; Role of the Reformed Church; Fiscal Contract; Unique Social Structure; Late Industrial Development and the Structure of Taxation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3: Creating Tax-Compliant Citizens in Sweden: The Role of Social Democracy; Perceptions of Fairness and Tax Compliance; Raising Taxes and Constructing the Welfare State: 1945-70; State capacity to collect taxes; Justifying taxes: the precondition of the welfare state; Defending a Challenged Tax System: The 1970s and 1980s |
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Questioned state capacity to collect taxesThe logic of fairness and a new understanding of taxes; Technical progress and improved state capacity; Conclusions; References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Part III: Italy; 4: Tax Evasion in Italy: A God-Given Right?; Introduction; Tax Evasion in Italy; Religion and Tax Morale; Church and State in Nineteenth-Century Italy; Risorgimento and Anti-Risorgimento; Just Catholic taxation; Reconciliation? State and Church from Mussolini to Democrazia Cristiana; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5: Explaining Italian Tax Compliance: A Historical Analysis |
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The Risorgimento and Italian PoliticsThe Fascist Period; The First Republic; From the Tax Reform of 1972 to the Present; Discussion and Conclusions; Notes; References; Part IV: United Kingdom; 6: Creating Consent: Taxation, War, and Good Government in Britain, 1688-1914; Creating a Fiscal State; Losing Consent; (Re)creating Consent; Consequences and Conclusion; Notes; References; 7: "When We Were Just Giving Stuff Away Willy-Nilly": Historicizing Contemporary British Tax Morale; Introduction; The British Tax State; Historicizing Contemporary Tax Morale: Macro-Level Analysis |
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Historicizing Contemporary Tax Morale: Micro-Level AnalysisConclusion; Note; References; Part V: United States; 8: The Not-So-Infernal Revenue Service?: Tax Collection, Citizens, and Compliance in the United States from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; Introduction; Invisible Tax, Invisible Collection (1776-1913); Finding Common Ground (1913-1941); Withholding, Businessmen, and Mass Consent (1941-1960); Chain Reaction, Eroding Consent (1970-2010); Conclusion; Notes; References; 9: Seeing Taxation in the Mid-Twentieth Century: US Tax Compliance; A Visionary Notion |
| Summary |
This book examines the history of the relationship between taxpayers and their states, and demonstrates how and why some governments have become more trustworthy than others. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Subject |
Fiscal policy -- Europe.
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Fiscal policy -- United States.
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Comparative government.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Comparative government. (OCoLC)fst00871341
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Fiscal policy. (OCoLC)fst00925806
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Steinmo, Sven, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leap of faith. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 0198796811 9780198796817 (OCoLC)1012763057 |
| ISBN |
9780192516916 (electronic book) |
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0192516914 (electronic book) |
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9780191838484 |
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0191838489 |
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9780198796817 |
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0198796811 |
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