Taxing Wars - The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy

In Taxing Wars, Sarah Kreps identifies that the deterioration of decision-making accountability with regard to war in the second half of the twentieth century has allowed leaders to wage increasingly costly and protracted wars. And because the health of a democracy can be measured by how responsive leaders are to an informed and attentive public in times of war, our current practices suggest that we are edging ever closer to how non-democracies conduct war.

List of contents

• Chapter One


• Introduction


• Chapter Two


• Bearing the Financial Burden of War


• Chapter Three


• Partisan Politics in the Early Wars: Conflicts of 1798, 1812, and 1898


• Chapter Four


• The "Liberty Bond" Approach to War Finance: World Wars I and II


• Chapter Five


• From Taxation to Borrowing: Declining Fiscal Sacrifice in Korea and Vietnam


• Chapter Six


• "Hide-and-Seek" Wars: The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars


• Chapter Seven


• Cross-National Survey Evidence from the US, UK, and France


• Chapter Eight


• Conclusion

About the author

Sarah E. Kreps is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. She previously held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Between 1999-2003, Kreps served as an active duty officer in the United States Air Force. She is the author of Coalitions of Convenience (OUP) and Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP).

Product details

• Authors: Kreps, Sarah Kreps, Sarah (Associate Professor of Government Kreps
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2018
• EAN: 9780190865306
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086530-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, North America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare and defence, The Americas, Political science and theory, North America (USA and Canada), Public finance, Armed Conflict, Public finance and taxation, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General