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Fiscal Sociology at the Centenary

Part of the Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27496-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-27495-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 28, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 1 –7

[At the centenary of fiscal sociology, this book considers the potential of this movement for analyses of budgeting, taxation and austerity in the UK.]
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What Is Fiscal Sociology?

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 11 –44

[Fiscal sociology has become something of a “catch all” description to describe scholarship that considers taxation, spending and the structure of states. The phrase was coined by Joseph A. Schumpeter, a famous economist, whose belief in the importance of budgets, and the eventual downfall of...
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The Fiscal State and Budget Institutions

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 47 –68

[Chapter one introduced the key questions of fiscal sociologyfiscal sociology: What does the ‘failure of the tax state’ mean? What is the nature of the tax state? How did it come about? Must it now disappear and why? What are the social processes which are behind the superficial facts of the...
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Budgets: Process, Rights, and Institutions

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 69 –98

[From the Sinking FundSinking Fund, to the Office for Budget ResponsibilityOffice for Budget Responsibility (OBR)—this chapter considers UK budgetingbudgeting in the twenty-first century. As Chapter 3 established that the process of budgeting is itself a British innovation, this review of the...
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The Challenge of Taking Rights Seriously in Fiscal Sociology

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 101 –120

[The first chapter of the third part of this book—addressing the question: “what are the social processes which are behind the superficial facts of the budget figures?”—sets the foundation for the consideration of law, as a social process. It does so by acknowledging that there are important...
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Example One of Taking Law Seriously in Fiscal Sociology: Taxing Inherited Wealth

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 121 –146

[The final, two chapters aim to fulfill the promise of the previous chapters, and extends a fiscal sociological analysis to two examples. In a 2014 review of fiscal sociologyfiscal sociology, Martin and Prasad suggested that inequality, and development, needed to be considered from the...
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Example Two of Taking Law Seriously in Fiscal Sociology: Tax, Spending and Gender

Mumford, Ann

Pages: 147 –186

[This chapter extends a fiscal sociological analysis to the benefit capbenefit cap litigation in the UK. The conclusion is that the legal system aims to preserve the availability of the unpaid labourunpaid labour of women. Focusing only on economic modelling, and not on values (Cooter), norms...

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