Front Cover -- Taxing Democracy: Local Taxation and the Social Contract in America -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Taxes and the Social Contract -- Introduction -- Continuity in change: the roots and reach of tax bargains -- How taxes reproduce a social contract -- Plan of the book -- 2 States, Taxes, and the Polities They Create -- Introduction -- State and social contract -- State formation as a tax contract -- Expanding the contract: taxation and accountability -- The racial contract and America's tax state
Mechanisms of change: how tax policy reflects the social contract -- Conclusion -- 3 The US Tax State and the Limited Social Contract -- Introduction -- The multilevel American tax state: a brief sketch -- The tax state in the American South -- Antebellum tax structure -- Radical Reconstruction (1865-77) -- Redeemer governments -- From tax limitation to tax elimination: the convict lease system -- New century, old patterns: the racialized social contract and the federal welfare state -- Conclusion -- 4 Tax and Expenditure Limitations vs. an Expanding Social Contract -- Introduction
Segregation as government policy -- The tax bargain as conservative force -- Tax and expenditure limitations in defense of an exclusionary social contract -- Varieties of tax and expenditure limitations -- Conclusion -- 5 Implications of the Reliance on Fines and Fees -- Introduction -- Revenue-driven policing -- The scale of taxation by citation -- Impacts of revenue-driven policing -- How we got here -- Conclusion -- 6 Taxing Democracy: Conclusions -- References -- Index
Summary
Carrie 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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023)
