The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

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Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, neutral): “…benefits of “stationary” versus “roving” bandits (Olson, 1993), the relative benefits of different mechanisms for governing markets (Dixit, 2004) conflict (Besley and Persson, 2010; Gennaioli and Voth, 2012), ease of taxation (Moav et al., 2011), and past investments (Besley and Persson, 2009).”
Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence (2011, positive): “7 Focusing on cross-country studies, we do not cover studies dealing with US states such as the recent study by Besley et al. (2011).”
International coordination and the effectiveness of aid (2015, background): “Besley and Persson (2010) point to “state capacity” as the key determinant of whether a country can achieve development.”
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution (2012, neutral): “50The ability of the state to employ better-trained bureaucrats is an important determinant of a state’s capacity (Brewer, 1988; Besley and Persson, 2009).”