Capital, coercion, and postcommunist states

The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth....

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Main Author: Easter, Gerald M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press 2012, ©2012
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505 0 |a Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States -- 1. Toward a Fiscal Sociology of the Postcommunist State -- 2. The Fiscal Crisis of the Old Regime -- 3. Politics of Tax Reform: Making (and Unmaking) Revenue Bargains -- 4. State Meets Society in the Transitional Tax Regime -- 5. Building Fiscal Capacity in Postcommunist States -- 6. Taxation and the Reconfiguration of State and Society -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index 
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520 3 |a The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory" state is associated with the successors to the USSR, which instead developed authoritarian regimes, coercive relations with society, and poorly defined boundaries between the political and economic realms. In Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of the many battles between state coercion and societal capital over taxation gave rise to these distinctive transition outcomes. Easter's fiscal sociology of the postcommunist state highlights the interconnected paths that led from the fiscal crisis of the old regime through the revenue bargains of transitional tax regimes to the eventual reconfiguration of state-society relations. His focused comparison of Poland and Russia exemplifies postcommunism's divergent institutional forms. The Polish case shows how conflicts over taxation influenced the emergence of a rule-of-law contractual state, social-market capitalism, and civil society. The Russian case reveals how revenue imperatives reinforced the emergence of a rule-by-law predatory state, concessions-style capitalism, and dependent society.