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Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent

by Deborah Brautigam , Odd-Helge Fjeldstad , Michael Peter Moore
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780521716192
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 308
  • Original Price: GBP 34.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Politics

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.

Brautigam, Deborah: - Deborah Brautigam is Associate Professor at American University, Washington D.C.

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge: - Mick Moore is Professorial Fellow in the Institute of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for the Future State at the University of Sussex.

Moore, Michael Peter: - Odd-Helge Fjeldstad is Research Director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway and Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.

Moore, Mick: - Odd-Helge Fjeldstad is Research Director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway and Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.

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