The New Fiscal Sociology

This volume presents sixteen essays by comparative historical scholars who offer a survey of the new fiscal sociology.

Autorentext
Isaac William Martin is the author of The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008), which won the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association, and he is the co-editor of After the Tax Revolt: California's Proposition 13 Turns 30 (2009). He teaches sociology and urban studies at the University of California at San Diego. Ajay K. Mehrotra teaches law and history at Indiana University, Bloomington. He studies the historical development of American law and political economy, particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Policy History, Labor History, the Indiana Law Journal, and the UCLA Law Review. He is currently at work on a book about taxation and American state formation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Monica Prasad teaches in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Free Markets (2006), which won the 2007 Barrington Moore Award. Her current projects include research on the origins of progressive taxation in America (with Kimberly Morgan, forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology); a comparative study of tax progressivity (with Yingying Deng); and a comparative historical investigation of carbon taxes.

Zusammenfassung
The New Fiscal Sociology demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science, and law.

Inhalt
Preface Charles Tilly; 1. The thunder of history Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad; 2. 'The unfair advantage of the few' Joseph J. Thorndike; 3. What Americans think of taxes Andrea Louise Campbell; 4. Read their lips Fred Block; 5. Making taxes the life of the party Christopher Howard; 6. The politis of demanding sacrifice Evan S. Lieberman; 7. The end of the strong state Eisaku Ide and Sven Steinmo; 8. War and taxation Naomi Feldman and Joel Slemrod; 9. Liberty, democracy, and capacity Robin L. Einhorn; 10. Extraction and democracy Charles Tilly; 11. Improving tax administration in contemporary African states Edgar Kiser and Audrey Sacks; 12. Adam Smith and the search for an ideal tax system Beverly Moran; 13. Where's the sex in fiscal sociology? Edward McCaffery; 14. The Shoup mission to Japan W. Elliot Brownlee; Epilogue: A renaissance for fiscal sociology John L. Campbell.

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