UID:
almafu_9961645569402883
Format:
1 online resource (102 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Elements in Political Economy Series
Content:
This Element explains and documents state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820-1910. Using an original, archival data set of annual tax revenues, we show that the economic interests of rural elites played a critical role in shaping the observed fiscal patterns within and across these states over this period.
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Imprints Page -- Representation and Taxation in the American South 1820-1910 -- Contents -- 1 Political and Fiscal Development in the American South -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Historical Context -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 The Existing Literature -- 2.2 The Argument -- 3 Data and Empirical Strategy -- 3.1 Property Taxes between 1820 and 1910 -- 3.1.1 Empirical Measures of Property Taxes -- 3.1.2 Ad Valorem Property Tax Rates -- 3.1.3 Property Tax Incidence -- 3.2 Other Measures of Taxation -- 3.2.1 Total State Tax Revenues Collected -- 3.2.2 Total State and Local Property Taxes Levied -- 3.2.3 Poll Tax Rates -- 3.3 Other Data -- 3.3.1 Public Spending and Collective Goods -- 3.3.2 Demographic, Economic, and Political Variables -- 4 Property Taxes before the Civil War -- 4.1 Property Taxes between 1820 and 1860 -- 4.2 Variation in De Jure Political Control -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Collective Goods for Elites: Railroads versus Education -- Public Education Spending -- 4.5 Robustness -- 5 Postwar Taxation -- 5.1 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath -- 5.1.1 Context -- 5.1.2 Analysis -- 5.1.3 State Spending on Common Schools -- 5.2 Jim Crow: Formal Black Disenfranchisement (1880-1910) -- 5.2.1 Context -- 5.2.2 Analysis -- 5.2.3 Event Study -- 5.2.4 State Spending on Common Schools versus Universities -- Conclusion -- References.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009114080
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1009114085
Language:
English
