Isaac William Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac William Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac William |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN I W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis
The Political Sociology of Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Politics
We are living in a golden age for the political sociology of public finance. The study of taxation and public debt often has been assumed to belong to the domain of economics, but fiscal policies, like other public policies, are the outcomes of political processes that can be studied sociologically, and the eclectic theoretical toolkit of contemporary political sociology – stocked as it is with concepts and middle-range theories from pluralist, i…
New Handbook of Political Sociology
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American Inequality in the Long Run
Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980-2010
Why are some policies protested more than others? New data on protest against eight categories of taxation in twenty rich democracies from 1980 to 2010 reveal that economically and socially concentrated taxes are protested most, whereas taxes that confer entitlement to benefits are protested least. Other features of policy design often thought to affect the salience or visibility of costs are unimportant for explaining the frequency of protest. T…
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
New Sociology of Housing
Property Tax Limitation and Racial Inequality in Effective Tax Rates
In the late 20th century, two thirds of American states enacted policies to limit the growth of local property tax revenues. We examine the effects of property tax limitations on the effective property tax rates reported by homeowners of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. We find that property tax limitations reduce the effective property tax rates of homeowners regardless of their race and ethnicity, but that most forms of …
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation
Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive polic…
Reading The Great Transformation
Reading the Great Transformation The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, by Karl Polanyi. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (orig. 1944). The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, by Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pp. Isaac William Martin University of California – San Diego [email protected] Theory Economic Sociology Political Sociolog…
Wenkai He. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China
The fiscal breakdown of Qing China, which opened the way for the Chinese revolution of 1911, was surely one of the most important events of the twentieth century. But why was the Qing state vulnerable to fiscal breakdown? It had a productive system of land taxes and excises. Responsibility for assessing and collecting taxes was in the hands of salaried bureaucrats who were selected by competitive examination and subject to rigorous bookkeeping re…
Taxes and Fiscal Sociology
This article reviews recent research in fiscal sociology. We specifically examine contributions to the study of taxation that illuminate core issues in the sociology of contemporary capitalism, including the causes of poverty and inequality in rich countries and of inequality between rich and poor countries. Research on developed countries suggests that tax policy changes are important for explaining rising income inequality, tax policies may str…
The Social Origins of the Texas Tax Club Movement, 1924–1925
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Taxation, the State and Society: The Fiscal Sociology of Interventionist Democracy
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes
Taxes are a preeminent issue in domestic politics, but the prevalence, content, and shape of public discussion on taxation is often perplexing to social researchers. We argue that part of the confusion arises from the lack of qualitative data on the meanings Americans associate with taxation. In order to remedy this lack we conducted semi-structured interviews with white, Southern, small business owners. In answering our questions, our respondent…
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Redistributing toward the Rich: Strategic Policy Crafting in the Campaign to Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, 1938-1958
Beginning in 1938, some American business groups campaigned to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and limit the federal taxation of income and wealth. Although their proposed upward‐redistributive policy would benefit few voters, it won the support of 31 state legislatures. To explain this outcome, this article offers a theory of strategic policy crafting by advocacy groups. Such groups may succeed even in otherwise unfavorable institutional environm…
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science, and law. The contributors include some of the foremost comparative historical scholars in these dis…
To the Editor
The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics
Taxes and Fiscal Sociology
This article reviews recent research in fiscal sociology. We specifically examine contributions to the study of taxation that illuminate core issues in the sociology of contemporary capitalism, including the causes of poverty and inequality in rich countries and of inequality between rich and poor countries. Research on developed countries suggests that tax policy changes are important for explaining rising income inequality, tax policies may str…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes
Taxes are a preeminent issue in domestic politics, but the prevalence, content, and shape of public discussion on taxation is often perplexing to social researchers. We argue that part of the confusion arises from the lack of qualitative data on the meanings Americans associate with taxation. In order to remedy this lack we conducted semi-structured interviews with white, Southern, small business owners. In answering our questions, our respondent…
Redistributing toward the Rich: Strategic Policy Crafting in the Campaign to Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, 1938-1958
Beginning in 1938, some American business groups campaigned to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and limit the federal taxation of income and wealth. Although their proposed upward‐redistributive policy would benefit few voters, it won the support of 31 state legislatures. To explain this outcome, this article offers a theory of strategic policy crafting by advocacy groups. Such groups may succeed even in otherwise unfavorable institutional environm…
Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980-2010
Why are some policies protested more than others? New data on protest against eight categories of taxation in twenty rich democracies from 1980 to 2010 reveal that economically and socially concentrated taxes are protested most, whereas taxes that confer entitlement to benefits are protested least. Other features of policy design often thought to affect the salience or visibility of costs are unimportant for explaining the frequency of protest. T…
Property Tax Limitation and Racial Inequality in Effective Tax Rates
In the late 20th century, two thirds of American states enacted policies to limit the growth of local property tax revenues. We examine the effects of property tax limitations on the effective property tax rates reported by homeowners of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. We find that property tax limitations reduce the effective property tax rates of homeowners regardless of their race and ethnicity, but that most forms of …
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis
New Sociology of Housing
Reading The Great Transformation
Reading the Great Transformation The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, by Karl Polanyi. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (orig. 1944). The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, by Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pp. Isaac William Martin University of California – San Diego [email protected] Theory Economic Sociology Political Sociolog…
The Social Origins of the Texas Tax Club Movement, 1924–1925
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Taxation, the State and Society: The Fiscal Sociology of Interventionist Democracy
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science, and law. The contributors include some of the foremost comparative historical scholars in these dis…
To the Editor
New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Redistributing toward the Rich: Strategic Policy Crafting in the Campaign to Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, 1938-1958
Beginning in 1938, some American business groups campaigned to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and limit the federal taxation of income and wealth. Although their proposed upward‐redistributive policy would benefit few voters, it won the support of 31 state legislatures. To explain this outcome, this article offers a theory of strategic policy crafting by advocacy groups. Such groups may succeed even in otherwise unfavorable institutional environm…
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes
Taxes are a preeminent issue in domestic politics, but the prevalence, content, and shape of public discussion on taxation is often perplexing to social researchers. We argue that part of the confusion arises from the lack of qualitative data on the meanings Americans associate with taxation. In order to remedy this lack we conducted semi-structured interviews with white, Southern, small business owners. In answering our questions, our respondent…
The Social Origins of the Texas Tax Club Movement, 1924–1925
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Taxation, the State and Society: The Fiscal Sociology of Interventionist Democracy
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Wenkai He. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China
The fiscal breakdown of Qing China, which opened the way for the Chinese revolution of 1911, was surely one of the most important events of the twentieth century. But why was the Qing state vulnerable to fiscal breakdown? It had a productive system of land taxes and excises. Responsibility for assessing and collecting taxes was in the hands of salaried bureaucrats who were selected by competitive examination and subject to rigorous bookkeeping re…
Taxes and Fiscal Sociology
This article reviews recent research in fiscal sociology. We specifically examine contributions to the study of taxation that illuminate core issues in the sociology of contemporary capitalism, including the causes of poverty and inequality in rich countries and of inequality between rich and poor countries. Research on developed countries suggests that tax policy changes are important for explaining rising income inequality, tax policies may str…
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation
Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive polic…
Reading The Great Transformation
Reading the Great Transformation The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, by Karl Polanyi. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (orig. 1944). The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, by Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pp. Isaac William Martin University of California – San Diego [email protected] Theory Economic Sociology Political Sociolog…
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
New Sociology of Housing
Property Tax Limitation and Racial Inequality in Effective Tax Rates
In the late 20th century, two thirds of American states enacted policies to limit the growth of local property tax revenues. We examine the effects of property tax limitations on the effective property tax rates reported by homeowners of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. We find that property tax limitations reduce the effective property tax rates of homeowners regardless of their race and ethnicity, but that most forms of …
Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980-2010
Why are some policies protested more than others? New data on protest against eight categories of taxation in twenty rich democracies from 1980 to 2010 reveal that economically and socially concentrated taxes are protested most, whereas taxes that confer entitlement to benefits are protested least. Other features of policy design often thought to affect the salience or visibility of costs are unimportant for explaining the frequency of protest. T…
The Political Sociology of Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Politics
We are living in a golden age for the political sociology of public finance. The study of taxation and public debt often has been assumed to belong to the domain of economics, but fiscal policies, like other public policies, are the outcomes of political processes that can be studied sociologically, and the eclectic theoretical toolkit of contemporary political sociology – stocked as it is with concepts and middle-range theories from pluralist, i…
New Handbook of Political Sociology
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American Inequality in the Long Run
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis
Economics (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Public economics (4 works)