How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance

By M. Moore. 2007

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Keeping the Public Purse: An Experiment in Windfalls, Taxes, and the Incentives to Restrain Government (2013, background): “…engagement on the part of individuals, interest groups, or firms could be a strategic response to secure lower taxation or more benefits (Easter 2002; Lieberman 2003), the behavioral story that paying taxes makes citizens care more about governance is also prominent in the literature (Moore 2007).”
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “Even though historians and political scientists have repeatedly argued that fiscal capacity leads to higher quality governments (Moore, 2007; Tilly, 1992), the economics literature has paid little attention to this direction of causality.”
Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “Meanwhile, social norms of compliance also improve and resources accumulate when members of society receive government services in return for tax payments (Moore, 2007; Brautigam et al., 2008).”
Tax me, but spend wisely? Sources of public finance and government accountability (2015, background): “Citizens may demand more from politicians when they pay more taxes - political scientists have coined this the ‘no representation without taxation’ hypothesis (Ross, 2004, Moore, 2007). Assuming that citizens’ utility is submodular in the public and private goods or that individuals suffer from some”
Developmental States in the New Millennium: Concepts and Challenges for a New Aid Agenda (2007, background): “Sindzingre, for her part, reviews the role of taxation in development, which has become an important element in the current debate on the state (Moore, 2007).”
Resource Blessing, Revenue Curse? Domestic Revenue Effort in Resource-Rich Countries (2014, background): “It argues that, in a society with a broad-based tax system, paying taxes is part of an implicit contract in which taxpayers gain political representation or other forms of voice over public policies and provision of public services (Levi, 1988; Moore, 1998, 2007).”