Book contents
- The New Handbook of Political Sociology
- The New Handbook of Political Sociology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Theories of Political Sociology
- II Media Explosion, Knowledge as Power, and Demographic Reversals
- III The State and Its Political Organizations
- 15 The Political Economy of the Capitalist State
- 16 States as Institutions
- 17 Nation-State Formation
- 18 The Political Sociology of Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Politics
- 19 Politics, Institutions, and the Carceral State
- 20 The Political Sociology of Democracy
- 21 Revolutions against the State
- IV Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action
- V Established and New State Policies and Innovations
- VI Globalization and New and Bigger Sources of Power and Resistance
- Index
- References
18 - The Political Sociology of Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Politics
from III - The State and Its Political Organizations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- The New Handbook of Political Sociology
- The New Handbook of Political Sociology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Theories of Political Sociology
- II Media Explosion, Knowledge as Power, and Demographic Reversals
- III The State and Its Political Organizations
- 15 The Political Economy of the Capitalist State
- 16 States as Institutions
- 17 Nation-State Formation
- 18 The Political Sociology of Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Politics
- 19 Politics, Institutions, and the Carceral State
- 20 The Political Sociology of Democracy
- 21 Revolutions against the State
- IV Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action
- V Established and New State Policies and Innovations
- VI Globalization and New and Bigger Sources of Power and Resistance
- Index
- References
Summary
We are living in a golden age for the political sociology of public finance. The study of taxation and public debt often has been assumed to belong to the domain of economics, but fiscal policies, like other public policies, are the outcomes of political processes that can be studied sociologically, and the eclectic theoretical toolkit of contemporary political sociology – stocked as it is with concepts and middle-range theories from pluralist, institutionalist, power elite, Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist, and other theoretical traditions – can be applied as well to this domain as to any other.
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- The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 484 - 512Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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