1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454820103321

Autore

Levi Margaret

Titolo

Of rule and revenue [[electronic resource] /] / Margaret Levi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988

ISBN

1-282-35556-2

9786612355561

0-520-90954-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

California series on social choice and political economy ; ; 9

Disciplina

336.02

Soggetti

Revenue - History

Income tax - History

State, The - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theory of Predatory Rule -- 3. Creating Compliance -- 4. Revenue Production in Republican Rome -- 5. France and England in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- 6. Introduction of the Income Tax in Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 7. Compliance with the Commonwealth Income Tax in Australia -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Bringing People Back into the State. A Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819666003321

Autore

Payne Keith B.

Titolo

The fallacies of Cold War deterrence and a new direction / / Keith B. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-8131-2775-0

0-8131-4849-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

355.02/17

Soggetti

Deterrence (Strategy)

Nuclear weapons - United States

Cold War

Deterrence (Strategy) - History - 20th century

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cold War deterrence theory and practice -- Why the Cold War deterrence framework is inadequate -- Cold War deterrence thought in the post-Cold War world -- The dilemma of popular usage and a new direction -- Testing the deterrence framework -- The new deterrence framework, evidence, and misplaced confidence -- Lessons of this case study.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamberlain's policy was doomed because he had greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus his behavior. U.S. Cold War nuclear deterrence policy was similarly based on the confident but questionable assumption that Soviet leaders would be rational by Washington's standards; they would behave reasonably wh