Reforming the tax state: Taxation and democracy in a transatlantic perspective, France-USA (1880s-1930s)

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Nicolas Delalande
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Building ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Tax State ◽  
State Taxation

This article highlights the recent historiographical revisions that have led historians on both sides of the Atlantic to develop innovative and refreshing views on state-building and state-society relationships through a comparative study of tax reform in France and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century*. Taxation offers a good case study because it deals with the power of the state, its capacity to act upon and shape society, and provides information about the way it is perceived by citizens, as Joseph Schumpeter summed up in his famous statement (1918).

“The Hora Staccato in Swing!”: Jascha Heifetz's Musical Eclecticism and the Adaptation of Violin Miniatures

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-431
Author(s):  
JOSHUA S. WALDEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
History Of

AbstractJascha Heifetz (1901–87) promoted a modern brand of musical eclecticism, recording, performing, and editing adaptations of folk and popular songs while remaining dedicated to the standard violin repertoire and the compositions of his contemporaries. This essay examines the complex influences of his displacement from Eastern Europe and assimilation to the culture of the United States on both the hybridity of his repertoire and the critical reception he received in his new home. It takes as its case study Heifetz's composition of the virtuosic showpiece “Hora Staccato,” based on a Romany violin performance he heard in Bucharest, and his later adaptation of the music into an American swing hit he titled “Hora Swing-cato.” Finally, the essay turns to the field of popular song to consider how two of the works Heifetz performed most frequently were adapted for New York Yiddish radio as Tin Pan Alley–style songs whose lyrics narrate the early twentieth-century immigrant experience. The performance and arrangement history of many of Heifetz's miniatures reveals the multivalent ways in which works in his repertoire, and for some listeners Heifetz himself, were reinterpreted, adapted, and assimilated into American culture.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Calla Hummel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
State Building ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Theoretical Claim ◽  
The Law

Chapter 7 discusses the broader implications of the argument for the world’s two billion informal workers. The chapter advances the theoretical claim that when individuals break the law, they can paradoxically get help from officials to organize. It elaborates implications for effective formalization policies, using the mixed success example of a tax reform in Bolivia. It also draw parallels to policing and enforcement trends in the United States. The chapter carefully summarizes the material covered in the preceding chapters. The chapter concludes the book with implications for state intervention in civil society, as well as contentious politics, enforcement, and state building.

As Others See Us: A Case Study in Path Analysis

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Freedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Statistical Modeling ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Complex Phenomena

In 1967, Blau and Duncan proposed a path model for education and stratification. This is one of the most influential applications of statistical modeling technique to social data. There is recent use of the same technique in Hope’s (1984) comparative study of Scotland and the United States, As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States. A review of path analysis is offered here, with Hope’s model used as an example, the object being to suggest the limits of the method in analyzing complex phenomena.

Business and Workers' Welfare in the Progressive Era: Workmen's Compensation Reform in Massachusetts, 1880–1911

1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Asher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Compensation Reform ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Workmen's Compensation

Of all business-supported reform in the early twentieth century, none was more significant or widely accepted than workmen's compensation for industrial accidents. Using the experience of Massachusetts as a case study, Mr. Asher reveals the unique consensus of management and labor which produced “the first victory for the idea of the modern welfare state in the United States.”

The Cotton-Textile Institute and the Government: A Case Study in Interacting Value Systems

1964 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis P. Galambos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Cotton Textile ◽  
Business Association ◽  
The Government ◽  
Textile Institute

The process of mutual accommodation between government and business in the United States is well illustrated in this study of the strategy and tactics of a key twentieth-century business association.

Mediators in the International Marketplace: U.S. Advertising in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advertising Agency ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Local Cultures

In the early twentieth century, companies relied on advertising to inform international audiences about their products and services, just as they do today. The J. Walter Thompson Company, a New York–based advertising agency, entered the global stage early, and by 1928 Thompson advertisements had appeared in twenty-six languages in over forty countries. Reaching international audiences and expanding their tastes required an understanding of local cultures and the ways in which they conducted their businesses, and advertisers often had to act as mediators for their clients. The J. Walter Thompson Company's efforts in Argentina provide an excellent case study of how both “local” and “global” messages of consumption were understood–and often misinterpreted–when they were transmitted to other countries from the United States.

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