| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; A Century of Fiscal Squeeze Politics: 100 Years of Austerity, Politics, and Bureaucracy in Britain; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: Background and Overview; 1: Setting the Scene: The Politics of Austerity and Fiscal Squeeze; 1.1 What Is Fiscal Squeeze and Why does It Matter?; 1.2 Three Key Political Choices in Fiscal Squeeze and Their Consequences; 1.2.1 Tax Hikes or Spending Cuts?; 1.2.2 ̀Surgery without Anaesthetics ́or ̀Boiling Frogs?́; 1.2.3 Handling the Blame; 1.3 Observing and Classifying Fiscal Squeezes |
|
1.4 Why a Single Country and Why the UK?1.5 The Analytic Approach: Plan of the Book; 2: UK Fiscal Squeezes over a Century: A Summary Comparison; 2.1 Fiscal Squeezes Identified and Compared; 2.1.1 The Varying Spending/Taxation Composition of Fiscal Squeezes; 2.1.2 The Disappearing ̀Hard Revenue Squeeze?́; 2.1.3 Spending Squeezes: From Short and Sharp to Long and Shallow?; 2.2 Triggers, Accompanying Conditions, and Composition of Fiscal Squeezes; 2.2.1 The Implications of a Changing Public Spending Profile for Fiscal Squeeze; 2.2.2 Changing Profiles of Revenue Squeezes; 2.3 Conclusion |
|
Part II: Selected Periods of Fiscal Squeeze over a Century3: World War I and the 1920s: From Tax Squeeze through Double Squeeze to Spending Squeeze; 3.1 Background: The Period in Perspective; 3.2 The Wartime Revenue Squeeze; 3.3 Post-War Politics: Double Hard Squeeze; 3.4 Tax Revolt and the Shift to Expenditure Squeeze, 1921; 3.5 After Geddes: Expenditure Squeeze after the Fall of the Lloyd George Coalition; 3.6 Conclusion; 3.6.1 Tax and Spending, Depth and Duration, Blame and Control; 3.6.2 Loss, Cost, and Effort Involved in these Episodes; 3.6.3 Electoral and Other Consequences |
|
4: The 1930s Squeeze: From Revenue Squeeze to Spending Squeeze via Political Crisis4.1 Background: The Period in Perspective; 4.2 What Triggered These Fiscal Squeezes; 4.2.1 Fiscal Squeeze and The Labour Government, 1931; 4.2.2 The National Government ̀Emergency ́Period, August to October 1931; 4.2.3 The National Government after the General Election of October 1931; 4.3 Blame Politics and Blame Avoidance; 4.4 Winners and Losers: What Was Spared and What Was Sacrificed; 4.5 Conclusions; 4.5.1 Tax and Spending, Depth and Duration, Blame and Control |
|
4.5.2 Loss, Cost, and Effort Involved in These Episodes4.5.3 Electoral and Other Consequences: Turkeys Voting for Christmas?; 5: World War II and Post-War Labour Austerity; 5.1 Background: The Period in Perspective; 5.2 The World War II Revenue Squeeze; 5.3 The Post-War Labour Squeezes; 5.3.1 The Immediate Post-War Squeeze; 5.3.2 Mid-Term Fiscal Squeeze Pressures, 1947-49; 5.3.3 The Final Labour Years 1950-51; 5.4 Conclusions; 5.4.1 Tax and Spending, Depth and Duration, Blame and Control; 5.4.2 Loss, Cost, and Effort Involved in These Episodes; 5.4.3 Electoral and Other Consequences |
| Summary |
This book carefully identifies and compares episodes of 'fiscal squeeze' in the UK over a century from 1900 to 2015 |
| Notes |
6: The ̀Stop-Go ́Squeezes of the 1950s and 1960s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
|
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Fiscal policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Taxation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
|
|
Fiscal policy
|
|
Politics and government
|
|
Taxation
|
| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056915
|
| Subject |
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Himaz, Rozana, author
|
| ISBN |
9780191085130 |
|
0191085138 |
|
9780191824661 |
|
0191824666 |
|
