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ATA 594: The Politics of Taxation

THE POLITICS OF TAXATION

Fall 2010

Nadir Özbek

The seminar introduces students to issues ranging from social justice, equality, social welfare, income distribution, wealth and poverty, wealth and taxation both in history and in contemporary world. We consider tax as a social instrument, and taxing as politics. Technologies of taxation, and ideologies informing perceptions of tax in historical societies in our present are topics that we will focus on during the semester. During the first part of the semester we are going to make common readings as the basis for weekly
discussions. Each student is expected to carry out a small research project on issues that we will be discussing throughout the first part of the semester. During the second part students are going to present their projects to the classroom. Research topics may be on historical issues, as well as contemporary social problems.




Readings: The following is a list of books and articles which may give an idea to the common readings of the course.

Bonney, Richard, ed. The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c.1200-1815. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bowman, Linda. "Russia's First Income Taxes: The Effects of Modernized Taxes on Commerce and Industry, 1885-1914." Slavic Review 52, no. 2 (1993): 256-82.

Burg, David F. A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots From Antiquity to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Collins, James B. Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation in Early Seventeenth-century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Collins, James B. Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation in Early Seventeenth-century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Daunton, M.J. "Payment and Participation: Welfare and State-Formation in Britain, 1900-1951." Past and Present, no. 150 (1996): 169-216.

Emy, H.V. "The Impact of Financial Policy on English Party Politics before 1914." Historical Journal 15, no. 1 (1972): 103-32.

Gorlin, Robert H. "Problems of Tax Reform in Imperial Russia." Journal of Modern History 49, no. 2 (1977): 246-65.

Gorlin, Robert. "State Politics and the Imperial Russian Budgets, 1905-1912." Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1973.

Gross, Jean-Pierre. Fair Shares for All: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Kotsonis, Yanni. ""Face-to-Face": The State, the Individual, and the Citizen in Russian Taxation." Slavic Review 63, no. 2 (2004): 221-46.

Kotsonis, Yanni. "'No Place to Go': Taxation and State Transformation in Late-Imperial and Early-Soviet Russia." Journal of Modern History 76, no. 3 (2004): 531-77.

Kwass, Michael. "A Kingdom of Taxpayers: State Formation, Privilege, and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century France." Journal of Modern History 70 (1998): 295-339.

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