While the state finance discipline permeates all the spheres of the social structure and creates various effects, the impact of the state through state finance is usually analysed from a one-sided perspective. In this regard, the main purpose of this study is to revisit the state and state finance approaches of Gramsci, Poulantzas, Mann and Tilly in order to understand the various dimensions of the social effects created by the state through state finance. Within this context, the state and state finance approaches of Gramsci, Poulantzas, Mann and Tilly are addressed, and examples of state fiscal policies and the social consequences of these policies are analysed in the conceptual framework of these approaches.
We assessed the health care reform and its effects on household’s welfare such as access to health care and household economic burden. We used descriptive analysis on 2002-2011 Ministry of Health and OECD Health Statistics. The main result is about using health care. Access to health care increased after health care reform in Turkey. Number of applications to health care service server and its units rose. On the other hand, financial burden of health care on household’s budget decreased number of applications. The main result percentage of not consulting a specialist even needed to consult a specialist but did not during the past 12 months is %4.9 in 2003 and %19.9 in 2010. To improve health care access, policy makers should improve public sector provision of health care, increase social security benefit packages and protect poor and vulnerable.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the Trump period tax expenditures within the framework of the general course of tax expenditures in the USA after 1980 and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that came into force in 2017. The study evaluated the change in tax spending policies during the Trump period in terms of the middle classes described as Trump's political base and Make America Great Again strategy. As a result, with the 2017 tax law, it is concluded that the tax expenditures are directed towards the big companies of the USA, rather than the "middle classes" that make up Trump's political base.
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