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Carrie Manning's illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America's local governments and citizens.

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"""Manning powerfully connects the dots between the historical development of taxation and contemporary American racial inequality. The book deserves a wide readership among political scientists, legal scholars, activists, and policy makers."" Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario"

""Manning powerfully connects the dots between the historical development of taxation and contemporary American racial inequality. The book deserves a wide readership among political scientists, legal scholars, activists, and policy makers."" Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario

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Carrie Manning is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University.

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