XXX-2 | 2015
Before Fiscal Transparency
Today, transparency is hailed as a key to good governance and economic efficiency, with national states implementing new laws to allow citizens access to information. It is therefore paradoxical that, as shown by a series of crises and scandals, modern governments and international agencies frequently have paid only lip-service to such ideals. Since Jeremy Bentham first introduced the concept of transparency in the language in 1789, few societal debates have sparked so much interest within the academic community, and across a variety of disciplines, using different approaches and methodologies. Within these current debates, however, one fact is striking: the lack of historical reflection about the development of the concept of transparency, both as a principle and as applied in practice, prior to its inception. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to contribute to historicising the ways in which communication and control over fiscal policy and state finances operated in early modern European polities.
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Introduction
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Paths to Fiscal Transparency [Full text]Control, Knowledge and Communication in Early-Modern PolitiesLes chemins de la transparence fiscale. Contrôle, savoir et communication dans l’Europe moderne
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Limits to fiscal transparency in parliamentary monarchies
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Parliament, Naval Spending and the Public [Full text]Contrasting Financial Legacies of Two Exhausting Wars, 1689-1713Le Parlement, les dépenses navales et le public. Conséquences financières contrastées d’une longue période de conflits, 1689-1713
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Contrôle parlementaire, débat public et autonomie royale en Suède, 1750-1780
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Provincial estates in composite polities
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Hiding in a Twilight Zone [Full text]Credible Commitment in the Dutch Republic and Groningen’s 1680s DefaultTirer profit de l’équivoque. L’engagement crédible des Provinces-Unies et le défaut de paiement de la province de Groningue en 1680
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From Blind Obedience to Informed Consent [Full text]Financial and Administrative Knowledge as a Political Tool in some French Provincial Estates during the Ancien Régime, 1751-1789De l’obéissance aveugle au consentement éclairé. Le savoir financier et administratif comme instrument politique dans quelques états provinciaux de la France d’Ancien Régime, 1751-1789
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Control and intermediation of corporate bodies
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Inspections et efficience de la Banque d’Angleterre au xviiie siècle
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Royal Scrutiny, Debt Reduction and State CoercionMaîtriser la dette des corporations parisiennes au xviiie siècle : contrôle monarchique, effets libératoires et coercitifs
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Publicity and communication in absolute monarchies
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Absolutisme et transparence fiscale dans l’Espagne du xviiie siècle
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False Transparency [Full text]Disclosing Financial Data, between Enlightenment and Absolutism (Naples, 1780s)Fausse transparence. La publicité financière entre Lumières et Absolutisme. L’exemple du royaume de Naples dans les années 1780
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