Description |
1 online resource (iv, 143 pages.) |
Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 print version record |
Subject |
Local taxation -- Political aspects -- United States
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Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Democracy -- Economic aspects
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781529215588 |
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1529215587 |
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