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03079aam a2200373 a 4500 001 B1C42D106B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 111116s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011047837 020 $a 1107019095 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107019096 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)761858457 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nc----- 050 00 $a HJ2471 .S36 2012 082 00 $a 336.2009728 $2 23 084 $a POL000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Schneider, Aaron, $d 1971- 245 10 $a State-building and tax regimes in Central America / $c Aaron Schneider. 260 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xvi, 243 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "In Central America, dynamic economic actors have inserted themselves into global markets. Elites atop these sectors attempt to advance a state-building project that will allow them to expand their activities and access political power, but they differ in their internal cohesion and their dominance with respect to other groups, especially previously constituted elites and popular sectors. Differences in resulting state-building patterns are expressed in the capacity to mobilize revenues from the most dynamic sectors in quantities sufficient to undertake public endeavors and in a relatively universal fashion across sectors. Historical, quantitative and qualitative detail on the five countries of Central America are followed by a focus on El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. The greatest changes have occurred in El Salvador, and Honduras has made some advances, although they are almost as quickly reversed by incentives, exemptions and special arrangements for particular producers. Guatemala has raised revenues only marginally and failed to address problems of inequity across sectors and between rich and poor"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. Revenues, states, and Central America; 2. State-building in a globalized political economy; 3. Historical junctures in Central American state-building and tax; 4. 1990s transnational integration: quantitative evaluation of socioeconomic actors, democratic institutions, and tax regimes; 5. Inside-out state-building in El Salvador: dominant and cohesive transnational elites; 6. Outside-in state-building in Honduras: dominant but divided transnational elites; 7. Crisis in Guatemalan state-building: divided, subordinate transnational elites; 8. Conclusion: state-building and tax in developing countries. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. $2 bisacsh 650 0 $a Tax administration and procedure $z Central America. 650 0 $a Nation-building $z Central America. 651 0 $a Central America $y 1979- $x Politics and government. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826033221.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B1C42D106B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search