Taxation and state-building in developing countries : capacity and consent
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Taxation and state-building in developing countries : capacity and consent
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-286) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks, armed militias. Why do governments fail? This book explores an old idea that has returned to prominence: that authority, effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness is closely related to the ways in which governments are financed. It matters that governments tax their citizens rather than live from oil revenues and foreign aid, and it matters how they tax them. Taxation stimulates demands for representation, and an effective revenue authority is the central pillar of state capacity. Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, this book presents and evaluates these arguments, updates theories derived from European history in the light of conditions in contemporary poorer countries, and draws conclusions for policy-makers.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: taxation and state-building in developing countries Deborah Brautigam
- 2. Between coercion and contract: competing narratives on taxation and governance Mick Moore
- 3. Capacity, consent and tax collection in post-communist states Gerald M. Easter
- 4. Taxation and coercion in rural China Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lu
- 5. Mass taxation and state-society relations in East Africa Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Ole Therkildsen
- 6. Contingent capacity: export taxation and state-building in Mauritius Deborah Brautigam
- 7. Tax bargaining and nitrate exports: Chile 1880-1930 Carmenza Gallo
- 8. Associational taxation: a pathway into the informal sector? Anuradha Joshi and Joseph Ayee
- 9. Rethinking institutional capacity and tax regimes: the case of the sino-foreign salt inspectorate in republican China Julia Strauss
- 10. Tax reform and state-building in a globalised world Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Mick Moore.
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