Taxes are often regarded as a burden, yet taxation has proven to have had positive effects for democratization in history. Countries that levy less direct taxes are often also less democratic. The 'resource curse' is one of the explanations: when rulers can rely upon rich resources that support the state without the need to levy taxes, the consequences are a more repressive government. Taxation enforces interactions between rulers and subjects
What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse ’ sequencing? ...
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues...
During the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its...
Taxes are often regarded as a burden, yet taxation has proven to have had positive effects for democ...
The rise of democratic institutions has been a rare phenomenon in history. Debates on the levying of...
The political resource curse – the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy – ...
The political resource curse – the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy – ...
Echoing the call for ‘no taxation without representation’, the development of modern taxation went h...
Why do some of the world’s countries with the most abundant natural resources, in particular oil wea...
Many governments of developing countries receive large revenues derived from taxation of natural res...
This article is a critical review on the topic of resource curse paradigm, which is the idea that th...
Fiscal experts and government ministers stated recently that the rich are too highly taxed. I try to...
This paper analyses the role of partisan politics in determining the local tax burden. Property taxe...
In this paper, the author argues that democracies tend to positively affect the size and composition...
To what extent differences across developing countries in their domestic tax mobilization can be exp...
What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse ’ sequencing? ...
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues...
During the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its...
Taxes are often regarded as a burden, yet taxation has proven to have had positive effects for democ...
The rise of democratic institutions has been a rare phenomenon in history. Debates on the levying of...
The political resource curse – the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy – ...
The political resource curse – the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy – ...
Echoing the call for ‘no taxation without representation’, the development of modern taxation went h...
Why do some of the world’s countries with the most abundant natural resources, in particular oil wea...
Many governments of developing countries receive large revenues derived from taxation of natural res...
This article is a critical review on the topic of resource curse paradigm, which is the idea that th...
Fiscal experts and government ministers stated recently that the rich are too highly taxed. I try to...
This paper analyses the role of partisan politics in determining the local tax burden. Property taxe...
In this paper, the author argues that democracies tend to positively affect the size and composition...
To what extent differences across developing countries in their domestic tax mobilization can be exp...
What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse ’ sequencing? ...
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues...
During the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its...