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Weber's Scorecard
This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By adopting both transnational and long-term approaches, the book explores the historical dimension of notions such as accountability, transparency, and vigilance in their immediate political, social, and legal contexts. The starting point is to view corruption not as a moral category that emerged in 1789 to delegitimise past, foreign or present state systems, but as a constantly contested concept that must also be historicised in past societies. The collection revisits chronologies and examines different local, regional, and national frames, highlighting that the path to modernity was contested and affected by a variety of unique circumstances, such as revolutions and external political powers. Building on the latest research and offering new methods of inquiry, this book is a compelling resource for academics interested in political history and the history of corruption.
The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and ...
Portugal in a European Context
Although Portugal was one of the first European states with stable borders, the process of the making of a Portuguese fiscal state still remains to be studied in detail. This volume brings together studies on the development of the Portuguese fiscal state within a comparative perspective in relation to other kingdoms across Europe, such as Castile and Aragon, England, Tuscany, the Papal States, Holland and France, in order to bring Portugal into the broader and comparative international debate about the development of the fiscal state. As a very distinctive case, Portugal remains understudied and underrepresented in the broader literature on the development of fiscal states. There are relati...
Research in Economic History
In this 37th volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott assemble a group of lead experts to showcase new historical data, analyses of historical questions, and an investigation of historians’ networks.
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura n.º 18
A Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, fundada em 2001, é uma revista de periodicidade anual, cujos artigos são sujeitos a avaliação prévia por parte de uma comissão de arbitragem externa. Publica textos de natureza histórica (desde a Antiguidade à Época Contemporânea), noticiário de atividades científicas e recensões críticas de livros. Aceita artigos de investigadores integrados e de colaboradores do Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura da FCT, bem como de quaisquer outros historiadores externos à instituição, estimulando especialmente a participação de todos aqueles que, de qualquer modo, mantêm colaboração ou desenvolvem atividades em rede com o ...
Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti / Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effect
In contrasto coi dibattiti del passato, che si dedicavano prevalentemente alla disparità di redditi e ai connessi elementi di ingiustizia, il recente interesse per la disuguaglianza economica si concentra attorno agli effetti sulla crescita economica e lo sviluppo sociale. Le intuizioni storiografiche sono un elemento importante di questi recenti dibattiti: un approccio storico che contestualizzi la disuguaglianza con riferimento alle relazioni sociali, alle istituzioni, all’accesso al potere e alla sua legittimazione culturale, può facilitare la comprensione dei meccanismi che portano alla disuguaglianza e ai suoi effetti.
El sistema financiero a finales de la Edad Media
Durante las últimas décadas, la historiografía ha mostrado cómo el crédito, en sus diferentes formas, impregnaba el conjunto de la sociedad en el Occidente bajomedieval. Ahora bien, todavía no se conoce suficientemente bien cómo se articularon ni cuál fue el nivel de integración de todas estas diversas formas de crédito. Dicho en otras palabras, resulta difícil establecer cuáles fueron los primeros pasos en la construcción de sistemas complejos y diversos, que abarcaron tanto el ámbito público como el privado, y que conectaron y dieron servicio a un amplio espectro social y territorial mediante variados instrumentos y métodos crediticios. Para contribuir a conocer un poco mejor este proceso, así como las características precisas y el alcance del sistema financiero que surge al final de la época medieval, se plantea la presente obra, que tiene como objetivo fundamental el estudio concreto de algunos de sus principales componentes.
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Fiscalità e religione nell’Europa cattolica
Le tasse rappresentano senza dubbio uno dei principali temi del dibattito pubblico, oggi come in passato. E generalmente il fisco è percepito come il volto rapace e ingiusto di uno Stato avido, quanto incapace di operare con efficienza: le critiche – se non addirittura l’avversione – alla fiscalità statale rappresentano innegabilmente uno degli elementi che accomunano ampi settori dell’opinione pubblica e degli elettorati dei paesi occidentali. Il presente volume, frutto del lavoro di diversi autori, cerca di analizzare la genesi e lo sviluppo di idee e discorsi elaborati nell’Europa cattolica, fra XIV e XIX secolo, al fine di legittimare la tassazione, tanto nei confronti dei laici quanto degli ecclesiastici. Nei secoli passati, infatti, giuristi e teologi furono coloro che forgiarono quell’insieme di idee e concetti fondati sulla giustizia e sulla liceità morale dell’imposizione fiscale (e dell’immunità per la Chiesa) che ancora oggi hanno ampia circolazione nell’immaginario collettivo e nell’opinione pubblica.
