Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social Contract

Introduction Tax Beyond the Social Contract

Abstract This special issue decenters tax as an analytic device for understanding the relationship between state and citizen while examining the limits of social contract thinking. Focusing on how citizens interpret and react to state efforts to promote fiscal citizenship, it sheds light on contempo...

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Published in:Social analysis Vol. 64; no. 2; p. 1
Main Authors: Makovicky, Nicolette, Smith, Robin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 01-06-2020
Subjects:
Citizens
Citizenship
Social contract
Sovereignty
Taxation
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Summary:Abstract This special issue decenters tax as an analytic device for understanding the relationship between state and citizen while examining the limits of social contract thinking. Focusing on how citizens interpret and react to state efforts to promote fiscal citizenship, it sheds light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems. The contributors use tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. They also highlight how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state in the form of alternative religious and economic communities.
ISSN:0155-977X
1558-5727
DOI:10.3167/sa.2020.640201