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9780198796817

The Leap of Faith The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America

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    9780198796817

  • ISBN10:

    0198796811

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2018-10-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Sven Steinmo is Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), the European University Institute . He has published in a wide range of fields including political economy, comparative politics, American political development, economics, psychology, public policy, and evolutionary theory. His first book was awarded the Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy by the APSA. His most recent book, The Evolution of the Modern State, was awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for best book in Evolutionary Political Economy by the European Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Table of Contents


Introduction
1. Introduction: The Leap of Faith, Sven H. Steinmo
Sweden
2. Getting to Sweden: The Origins of High Compliance in the Swedish Tax State, Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy
3. Creating Tax-compliant Citizens in Sweden: The Role of Social Democracy, Jenny Jansson
Italy
4. Tax Evasion in Italy: A God-given Right?, Josef Hien
5. Explaining Italian Tax Compliance: A Historical Analysis, John D'Attoma
United Kingdom
6. Creating Consent: Taxation, War, and Good Government in Britain, 1688-1914, Martin Daunton
7. 'When We Were Just Giving Stuff Away Willy-Nilly': Historicizing Contemporary British Tax Morale, Liam Stanley
United States
8. The Not-so-infernal Revenue Service? Tax Collection, Citizens and Compliance in the United States in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Romain Huret
9. Seeing Taxation in the Mid-Twentieth Century: U.S. Tax Compliance, Carolyn Jones
Romania
10. Tax Collection without Consent: State Building in Romania, Clara Volintiru
11. Willing to Pay? The Politics of Engendering Faith in the Post-communist Romanian Tax System, Arpad Todor
Conclusion
12. Taxation and Consent: Implications for Developing Nations, Marcelo Bergman and Sven H. Steinmo

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