Towards s critical sociology and political economy of public finance

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Gürkan, Ceyhun

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The exploration of this thesis on public finance proceeds on two axes. First, it aims at developing an ontological perspective to public finance. Accordingly, public finance is defined to be the concrete political relation between the state and society. The thesis that presents a political and historical evaluation of public finance from a critical sociological and political economy approach associates the components of this definition such as public, the political etc. with the relevant debates in social and political theory. In line with this, the traditional harmony-perspective of neoclassical public finance theories, which is ignorant of the political, is criticized, calling it as ‘police finance’ instead of ‘public finance’. Secondly, the thesis explores the history of fiscal thought between the 15th-19th centuries with special reference to the Ottoman Empire. All in all, with these topics this thesis aims at making a contribution to the field of “fiscal sociology” from a critical sociological and political economy approach.

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Finance, Public., Fiscal policy.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612630/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15869

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C. Gürkan, “Towards s critical sociology and political economy of public finance,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2010.