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War, revenue, and state building [[electronic resource] ] : financing the development of the American state / / Sheldon D. Pollack



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Autore: Pollack Sheldon David Visualizza persona
Titolo: War, revenue, and state building [[electronic resource] ] : financing the development of the American state / / Sheldon D. Pollack Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
Disciplina: 336.02/73
Soggetto topico: Revenue - United States - History
Revenue - Europe - History
Finance, Public - United States - History
Finance, Public - Europe - History
War - Economic aspects - United States - History
War - Economic aspects - Europe - History
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The State: Coercion and Tribute -- 2. War and the Development of the European State -- 3. The Rise of the Social Welfare State in Europe -- 4. Origins of the American State -- 5. State Formation in the Early Republic -- 6. Reconstituting the American State -- 7. War and the Development of the American State -- 8. Financing the Modern American State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America's participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs. Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a "developing nation." Without revenue, states cannot maintain political institutions, undergo development, or exert sovereignty over their territory. Rulers and their functionaries wield the coercive powers of the state to extract that revenue from the population under their control. From this perspective, the state is seen as a highly efficient machine for extracting societal revenue that is used by the state to sustain itself. War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state.
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ISBN: 0-8014-5914-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818848203321
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Serie: Cornell paperbacks.