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Author: Yvette Lind
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1035329131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposing innovative ideas on the links between taxation, citizenship and democracy, this multidisciplinary book contributes to ongoing research and scholarship by emphasizing the importance of taxes to the functioning of democracy.
Author: Carrie Manning
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2022-12
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1529215560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarrie Manning's illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America's local governments and citizens.
Author: Sven Steinmo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780300067217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the structure, politics and historic development of taxation in several countries, this book compares three quite different political democracies. It provides an account of the ways these democracies have financed their welfare programs despite w
Author: Miranda Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781316160701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Since 1970, the Law in Context series has been at the forefront of a movement to broaden the study of law. The series is a vehicle for the publication of innovative monographs and texts that treat law and legal phenomena critically in their cultural, social, political, technological, environmental and economic contexts. A contextual approach involves treating legal subjects broadly, using materials from other humanities and social sciences, and from any other discipline that helps to explain the operation in practice of the particular legal field or legal phenomena under investigation. It is intended that this orientation is at once more stimulating and more revealing than the bare exposition of legal rules. The series includes original research monographs, coursebooks and textbooks that foreground contextual approaches and methods. The series includes and welcomes books on the study of law in all its contexts, including domestic legal systems, European and international law, transnational and global legal processes, and comparative law"--
Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0743967917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery citizen of a country enjoys the rights and responsibilities of citizenship for that country. However, 21st century citizens are connected in ways unlike any time before. Dive deep into what it means to be a global citizen with this primary source book that gives students unique insights and personal connections to history. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.
Author: Camille Walsh
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1469638959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy and intertwined with ideas of whiteness. From the origins of unequal public school funding after the Civil War through school desegregation cases from Brown v. Board of Education to San Antonio v. Rodriguez in the 1970s, this study spans over a century of racial injustice, dramatic courtroom clashes, and white supremacist backlash to collective justice claims. Incorporating letters from everyday individuals as well as the private notes of Supreme Court justices as they deliberated, Walsh reveals how the idea of a "taxpayer" identity contributed to the contemporary crises of public education, racial disparity, and income inequality.
Author: Raymond Avaness
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-26
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781545541647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers a brief/general history of economic and political interventions of United States globally, using Citizens' TAX Dollars.It offers Citizens' solutions on how to have an impact on government's Economic and Tax Policies to benefit their own communities and equally importantly how to exercise control over governmental expenditure of TAX Dollars.In Theory since citizens fund the government they need to have a say on how state and federal tax Dollars are being spent to benefit domestic reform programs that are of direct benefit to the citizenry.
Author: Deborah Brautigam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-01-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1139469258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks, armed militias. Why do governments fail? This book explores an old idea that has returned to prominence: that authority, effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness is closely related to the ways in which governments are financed. It matters that governments tax their citizens rather than live from oil revenues and foreign aid, and it matters how they tax them. Taxation stimulates demands for representation, and an effective revenue authority is the central pillar of state capacity. Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, this book presents and evaluates these arguments, updates theories derived from European history in the light of conditions in contemporary poorer countries, and draws conclusions for policy-makers.
Author: Shirley Tillotson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780774836746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising, twentieth-century taxes have made us richer, in political engagement and more. Taxes make the power of the state obvious, and Canadians often resisted that power. But this is not simply a tale of tax rebels. Tillotson argues that Canadians also made real contributions to democracy when they taxed wisely and paid willingly.
Author: Shirley Tillotson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 077483675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan a book about tax history be a page-turner? You wouldn’t think so. But Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero, J.S. Woodsworth, who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising of all, Give and Take reveals that taxes deliver something more than armies and schools. They build democracy. Tillotson launches her story with the 1917 war income tax, takes us through the tumultuous tax fights of the interwar years, proceeds to the remaking of income taxation in the 1940s and onwards, and finishes by offering a fresh angle on the fierce conflicts surrounding tax reform in the 1960s. Taxes show us the power of the state, and Canadians often resisted that power, disproving the myth that we have always been good loyalists. But Give and Take is neither a simple tale of tax rebels nor a tirade against the taxman. Tillotson argues that Canadians also made real contributions to democracy when they taxed wisely and paid willingly.
