Capital, coercion, and postcommunist states
By: Gerald M. Easter
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801451195; 9780801478246
Subjects: Post-communism; Public Finance; Economic conditions; Fiscal policy
Description: "Shows how the cumulative result of multiple big and small battles between state coercion and societal capital gave rise to postcommunism's variant political and economic institutions"--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a fiscal sociology of the post-communist state; title: Fiscal crisis of the old regime; title: Politics of tax reform : making (and unmaking) revenue bargains; title: State meets society in the transitional tax regime; title: Building fiscal capacity in post-communist states; title: Taxation and the reconfiguration of state and society.