Disparate geography and the origins of tax capacity

Beramendi, Pablo; Rogers, Melissa

doi:10.1007/s11558-018-9319-2

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“…Finally, our study also contributes to works associating elite configurations and political institutions with geography (Berkowitz & Clay, 2011;Easterly, 2007;Boix, 2015;Beramendi & Rogers, 2021;Garfias & Sellars, 2020). Our research design builds upon contributions that posit a strong relationship between exogenous environmental factors-climate and distance to navigable waterways in the case of Berkowitz and Clay (2011); "rich soils and a salubrious climate" in the case of Boix (2015, p. 209); and the diversity in resource endowments in ours-the configuration of economic elites, and their impact on institutions.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…For example, Ansell and Samuels (2014) argue that intra-elite disputes between the owners of land and emerging manufacturing/industrial elites explain transitions to democracy. Similarly, others posit that intra-elite dynamics explain variations in other political economy outcomes, such as legal frameworks (Berkowitz & Clay, 2011), income tax regimes (Mares and Queralt 2015), and state capacity (Beramendi et al, 2019;Beramendi & Rogers, 2021;Garfias, 2018). We build on this set of works that conveys that intra-economic elite competition affects institutional choice.…”

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Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

Paniagua

Vogler

2021

Const Polit Econ

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What explains the emergence and persistence of institutions aimed at preventing any ruling group from using the state apparatus to advance particularistic interests? To answer this recurring question, a burgeoning literature examines the establishment of power-sharing institutions in societies divided by ethnic or religious cleavages. Going beyond existing scholarly work focused on these specific settings, we argue that political power-sharing institutions can also be the result of common disputes within the economic elite. We propose that these institutions are likely to emerge and persist when competition between elite factions with dissimilar economic interests is balanced. To address the possibility of endogeneity between elite configurations and public institutions, we leverage natural resource diversity as an instrument for elite configurations. We show that, where geological resources are more diverse, competition between similarly powerful economic groups is more likely to emerge, leading ultimately to the establishment of power-sharing mechanisms that allow elite groups to protect their diverging economic interests.

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Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

Paniagua

Vogler

2021

Const Polit Econ

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“…Increasing tax competition between towns or regions may increase inequality, or even lead to a country's economic disintegration through a race to the bottom, with even lower revenue collection (World Bank 2020). Beramendi and Rogers (2021) demonstrate that divergence in subnational economies is related to predictable differences in the size of the fiscal state at the sub-national level. Therefore, without equalisation mechanisms, economic and social divergence is likely to be strengthened over time, which leads to pressure on social contracts.…”

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Taxation and Customs Reforms in Fragile States: Between Bargaining and Enforcement

Cantens¹,

Raballand²

2021

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In the last decade, African authorities and the international community have called for support to increase taxation capacity in order to reduce reliance on aid flows. This commitment to support tax administrations was reflected in the 2015 Addis Tax Initiative (ATI), which advocated ‘to double assistance to developing countries in order to strengthen their tax systems and administrations’ by the year 2020 (IMF 2017: 6). Increasing domestic resource mobilisation is even more salient for state-building in fragile states, in terms of providing costly services to citizens, including security, across national territory. There is a rich literature (Acemoglu and Robinson 2012; Besley and Persson 2009) arguing that robust and inclusive fiscal institutions are essential for state-building and economic growth. This is not the situation in fragile states.

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“…In many rural communities in the Great Plains of the United States, for example, almost everyone is either directly or indirectly employed in the agriculture sector (Krugman 1991). In this way, agriculture tends to be geographically concentrated relative to the distribution of aggregate economic activity (Shelburne & Bednarzik 1993, Brülhart 1998.…”

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Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy

Rickard

2020

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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Globalization has reduced the importance of distance between countries. Yet, within countries, geography matters now more than ever. Economic activities, including production and employment, occur unevenly across space within countries, and globalization consequently impacts various regions differently. Some areas benefit from international economic integration while others lose, and as a result, economic geography shapes citizens’ experience of globalization. Economic geography also influences governments’ responses to globalization and economic shocks. Economic geography consequently merits the attention of political scientists. By examining economic geography, researchers will find new traction on long-standing theoretical debates and valuable insights on recent developments, including the growing backlash against globalization. The challenges of studying economic geography include causal complexity and measurement issues.

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Disparate geography and the origins of tax capacity

Cited by 9 publications

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Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

Taxation and Customs Reforms in Fragile States: Between Bargaining and Enforcement

Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy

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