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The Political Economy of Public Finance
A study of major trends in public finance and fiscal justice in developed capitalist countries since the 1970s.
Sustainable Soil Management
This book covers soil health/management but also addresses issues such as reverting land degradation, improving soil carbon and biodiversity, mitigating climate change and enhancing ecosystem services/functions. This book is comprised of 12 chapters by leading academics and scientists from across the globe, and deals with various issues, prospects and the importance of “Sustainable Soil Management” under different agro-climatic conditions, including India, and also covers other regions in North America, South America, Australia, Africa and South Asia. This book will be extremely useful to researchers, scientists, students, farmers and land managers for efficient as well as sustainable management of natural resources with the theme of one-health i.e. soil-plant-animal-human-planetary health.
Global Taxation
"The volume analyses the rise of modern taxation around the world from the late eighteenth century to today. It is based on a new 'Tax Introduction Dataset' that records the historical dates of first adoption of six key taxes of the modern state in 220 countries worldwide, 1750-2018. The taxes include personal and corporate income tax, inheritance tax, social security contributions, as well as general sales taxes and VAT. Based on these data, the chapters map the diffusion of modern taxation across space, time, tax, and mode of tax adoption (sovereign or colonial). They explore the applicability of Western theories of fiscal development to non-Western contexts. They highlight the role of colonial tax introductions for fiscal development and state formation in Africa and Asia. And they compare the correlates of tax introduction across time and across different types of tax"--Publisher's description.
Exclusion by Elections
This book proposes a new theory of identity politics in elections, explaining why it is difficult for democracies to address rising inequality.
Perils of Centralization
Examines the histories of the US government, the Catholic Church, General Motors, and the European Union as examples of federated systems that centralized power.
The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies
This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.
The Rise of the Value-Added Tax
Explores how the value-added tax (VAT) has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the world's most dominant revenue instruments.
The Politics of Coalition in Korea
This book examines how inter- and intra-party coalition-building affects governability in South Korea. Focusing on the Kim Dae-jung administration (1998-2003) as a case study in the failure of a government to turn electoral success into stable governability, or ability to implement reform policies, the book’s research draws on two bodies of literature which, though focusing on the same dependent variable (cabinet or government stability), have rarely been used in tandem: coalition research on parliamentary systems and studies of divided government in presidential systems. Youngmi Kim argues that a weak institutionalization of the ruling party and the party-system accounts for political ins...
How Policies Change
Japan is aging rapidly, and its government has been groping with the implications of this profound social change. In a pioneering study of postwar Japanese social policy, John Creighton Campbell traces the growth from small beginnings to an elaborate and expensive set of pension, health care, employment, and social service programs for older people. He argues that an understanding of policy change requires a careful disentangling of social problems and how they come to be perceived, the invention (or borrowing) of policy solutions, and conflicts and coalitions among bureaucrats, politicians, interest groups, and the general public. The key to policy change has often been the strategies adopt...
