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

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Brautigam is Associate Professor at American University, Washington D.C. 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. Odd-Helge Fjeldstad is Research Director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway and Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. Klappentext Explains why taxation is a vital topic in explaining weak government in the poorer world. Zusammenfassung There is a widespread concern about governments which are unable to exercise effective authority. This book explains why taxation is a vital topic in explaining weak government in the poorer world! and provides a wide variety of cases from Africa! Asia! Eastern Europe and Latin America. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: taxation and state-building in developing countries Deborah Bräutigam; 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 Lü 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 Bräutigam; 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.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah (American University Brautigam, Deborah Moore Brautigam
• Assisted by: Deborah Brautigam (Editor), Brautigam Deborah (Editor), Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (Editor), Fjeldstad Odd-Helge (Editor), Michael Peter Moore (Editor), Mick Moore (Editor), Moore Mick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521888158
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88815-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Developing Countries, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Development economics & emerging economies, Public finance and taxation, Global South / Developing countries