Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 801 g
Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 801 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-62166-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Taxing America, first published in 1999, offers an interpretation of the American state between 1945 and 1975 by tracing the career of Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974. Blending methodological insights from history, political science, and sociology, Julian Zelizer provides one of the first comparative histories of income taxation, Social Security, and Medicare in this study of the crucial role Mills played in negotiating between the tax policy community and Congress. Taxing America lays out four innovative arguments about the expansion of the state during the postwar period; Congress played a crucial role in the institutionalization of the state after World War II, policy communities helped encourage policymaking, taxation was central to postwar liberalism and its domestic agenda, and a fragile alliance between influential fiscal conservatives and the state was instrumental in expanding support of the policies of the tax community.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Learning the Ways and Means: 2. An Arkansas traveler comes to Washington; 3. 'Where is the money coming from?'; 4. 'Taxation of whom and for what?'; 5. The legislative mills, 1958–61; 6. The postwar fiscal discourse; Part II. The Politics of Policy: 7. The road to tax reduction; 8. Bringing Medicare into the State; 9. The war on inflation; 10. Spending through taxes; 11. Expanding social security: inflation and social insurance, 1969–1970; Part III. Conclusion: 12. Looking backward and forward.
