Karaman, K. Kivanc and Pamuk, Sevket (2013) Different paths to the modern state in Europe: the interaction between warfare, economic structure and political regime. American Political Science Review, 107 (3). pp. 60-626. ISSN 0003-0554
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Theoretical work on taxation and state-building borrows heavily from early modern European experience. While a number of European states increased centralized tax revenues during this period, for others revenues stagnated or even declined and these variations have motivated alternative arguments for the determinants of fiscal and state capacity. This study reviews the arguments concerning the three determinants that have received most attention, namely warfare, economic structure, and political regime, and tests them by making use of a new and comprehensive tax revenue dataset. Our main finding is that these three determinants worked in interaction with each other. Specifically, when under pressure of war, it was representative regimes in more urbanized-commercial economies and authoritarian regimes in more rural-agrarian economies that tended to better aggregate domestic interests towards state-building.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 American Poltical Science Association |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2013 15:53 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2024 20:51 |
| Projects: | 5093 |
| Funders: | Bogaziçi University Research Fund |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/45170 |
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