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The leap of faith : the fiscal foundations of successful government in Europe and America
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018
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STEINMO, Sven (editor/s), The leap of faith : the fiscal foundations of successful government in Europe and America, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/58344
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Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.
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-- Introduction -- 1: Introduction: The Leap of Faith, Sven H. Steinmo -- Sweden -- 2: Getting to Sweden: The Origins of High Compliance in the Swedish Tax State, Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy -- 3: Creating Tax-compliant Citizens in Sweden: The Role of Social Democracy, Jenny Jansson -- Italy -- 4: Tax Evasion in Italy: A God-given Right?, Josef Hien -- 5: Explaining Italian Tax Compliance: A Historical Analysis, John D'Attoma -- United Kingdom -- 6: Creating Consent: Taxation, War, and Good Government in Britain, 1688-1914, Martin Daunton -- 7: 'When We Were Just Giving Stuff Away Willy-Nilly': Historicizing Contemporary British Tax Morale, Liam Stanley -- United States -- 8: The Not-so-infernal Revenue Service? Tax Collection, Citizens and Compliance in the United States in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Romain Huret -- 9: Seeing Taxation in the Mid-Twentieth Century: U.S. Tax Compliance, Carolyn Jones -- Romania -- 10: Tax Collection without Consent: State Building in Romania, Clara Volintiru -- 11: Willing to Pay? The Politics of Engendering Faith in the Post-communist Romanian Tax System, Arpad Todor -- Conclusion -- 12: Taxation and Consent: Implications for Developing Nations, Marcelo Bergman and Sven H. Steinmo
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)