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Representation and taxation in the American South 1820-1910 / Jeffrey Jensen, Giuliana Pardelli, Jeffrey F. Timmons

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in political economyPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 Online-Ressource (93 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781009122825
Other title:
  • Representation and taxation in the American South eighteen hundred twenty to nineteen hundred ten
  • Representation and taxation in the American South eighteen twenty to nineteen ten
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781009114080. | 9781009454056. | Erscheint auch als: Representation and taxation in the American South, 1820-1910. Druck-Ausgabe Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023DDC classification:
  • 352.4/42130975 23/eng/20231106
LOC classification:
  • HJ4121.S65
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Contents:
Political and fiscal development in the American South -- Theoretical framework -- Data and empirical strategy -- Property taxes before the Civil War -- Postwar taxation.
Summary: "We explain and document state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820-1910, focusing on their main source of revenue, progressive property taxes borne primarily by economic elites. The fourteen states in our analysis were characterized by severe economic exploitation of the enslaved and later politically repressed African-descended population by a small rural elite, who dominated the region both politically and economically. While rural elites are thought to be especially resistant to taxation, we offer a set of conditions that explains the emergence of progressive taxation and provides a coherent account of the fiscal development of these states over this period. Using an original, archival data set of annual tax revenues and select expenditure items, we show that the economic interests of these rural elites and the extent of their formal (over)representation played a critical role in shaping the observed fiscal patterns within and across these states over this period"--PPN: PPN: 1916244025Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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