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	Fiscal Sociology Analysis	State Autonomy Analysis
Fagområde	Political Economy	Political Economy
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Oprindelsesår	1918	1984
Ophavsperson	Joseph Schumpeter; Charles Tilly; Martin, Mehrotra & Prasad	Theda Skocpol, Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer & Michael Mann
Type	Historical-comparative analytical framework	State-centered analytical framework
Oprindelig kilde	Schumpeter, J. A. (1918/1991). The Crisis of the Tax State. In R. Swedberg (Ed.), The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691003832	Evans, P. B., Rueschemeyer, D., & Skocpol, T. (Eds.). (1985). Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521313131
Aliasser	Fiscal Sociology, New Fiscal Sociology, Sociology of Taxation	State-Centered Analysis, Relative Autonomy Analysis, Infrastructural Power Analysis, Bringing the State Back In Approach
Relaterede	3	3
Resumé	Fiscal sociology analysis treats taxation not as a narrow technical matter but as a window onto state-society relations and the formation of the state itself. The tradition descends from Joseph Schumpeter's 1918 essay The Crisis of the Tax State, with its dictum that the fiscal history of a people is above all an essential part of its general history, and from the historical-sociological work of Charles Tilly (1990) linking war, capital, and the building of European states. The New Fiscal Sociology of Martin, Mehrotra, and Prasad (2009) revived and reframed the field, arguing that taxes are social contracts as much as revenue instruments: how a state taxes reveals who holds power, what bargains bind rulers and ruled, and what the polity is capable of. The method reads the tax system as a record of social structure, conflict, and the reciprocal making of states and citizens.	State autonomy analysis treats the state not as a neutral arena or a simple instrument of the dominant class but as an organization with interests, capacities, and powers of its own. Crystallized in the 1985 volume Bringing the State Back In edited by Evans, Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol, and given a sharp conceptual edge by Michael Mann's 1984 distinction between despotic and infrastructural power, the framework asks two linked questions: how far can a state formulate goals independent of the preferences of dominant social classes (autonomy), and how effectively can it actually implement those goals across its territory (capacity)? The approach reoriented comparative political economy away from purely society-centered explanations.