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Representation through taxation: revenue, politics, and development in postcommunist states

Scott Gehlbach
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Tables (page xi)
  • List of Figures (page xii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Note on Transliteration (page xix)
  • 1 TAXES, REPRESENTATION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE RUSSIAN HEARTLAND (page 1)
    • 1.1 Structuring Tax Systems - and the Tax Base (page 4)
    • 1.2 The Nature of Representation (page 9)
    • 1.3 Revenue Dependence and Economic Development (page 13)
    • 1.4 Looking Ahead (page 16)
  • 2 THE CREATION OF TAX SYSTEMS (page 20)
    • 2.1 Taxation under Communism (page 21)
    • 2.2 Taxation after Communism (page 22)
    • 2.3 Initial Conditions and Postcommunist Tax Structure (page 28)
    • 2.4 Tax Revenue and Tax Compliance (page 38)
    • 2.5 Summary (page 50)
    • 2.A Appendix: Supplementary Tables and Figures (page 52)
  • 3 THE LOGIC OF REPRESENTATION THROUGH TAXATION (page 60)
    • 3.1 Theoretical Framework (page 64)
    • 3.2 Empirical Predictions (page 68)
    • 3.3 Summary (page 74)
    • 3.A Appendix: The Formal Logic of Representation through Taxation (page 75)
  • 4 PATTERNS OF COLLECTIVE-GOODS PROVISION (page 86)
    • 4.1 Data (page 89)
    • 4.2 Representation through Collective Action versus Representation through Taxation (page 94)
    • 4.3 Divergent Patterns of Collective-Goods Provision (page 101)
    • 4.4 Robustness Checks and Alternative Explanations (page 113)
    • 4.5 Summary (page 118)
    • 4.A Appendix: Supplementary Tables (page 120)
  • 5 REVENUE TRAPS (page 127)
    • 5.1 Revenue Dependence and Factor Mobility (page 131)
    • 5.2 The Political Economy of Privatization in Postsocialist States (page 133)
    • 5.3 "Old" and "New" Equilibria (page 142)
    • 5.4 Summary (page 146)
    • 5.A Appendix A: The Formal Logic of Revenue Traps (page 147)
    • 5.B Appendix B: Progress in Privatization during First Postcommunist Decade (page 153)
  • 6 CONCLUSIONS (page 155)
    • 6.1 The Institutional Nature of State Capacity (page 157)
    • 6.2 The Political Consequences of Exit (page 160)
    • 6.3 A Post-Olsonian Political Economy (page 162)
  • Bibliography (page 165)
  • Author Index (page 181)
  • Subject Index (page 186)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SR 68.4 (Winter 2009): 958-959 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25593802
PoP 7.3 (Sep. 2009): 681-683 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40407039
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521887335 (hardcover)
  • 9780511433924 (ebook)
  • 9780521168809 (paper)
Subject
  • European: Russia & Eastern
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