Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa

By Kimuli Kasara. American Political Science Review, 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Who’s Asking? Interviewer Coethnicity Effects in African Survey Data (2016, background): “…from Regardless of the origins of ethnic divisions in Africa, research has shown that ethnicity affects instability (Jackman, 1978), taxation (Kasara, 2007; Lieberman, 2003), access to education and health care (Franck & Rainer, 2010), voting (Adida, 2015 Carlson, 2015; Conroy-Krutz, 2013;…”
Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest? (2016, unknown): “Kasara 2007; Kramon and Posner 2013.”
Distributive Politics Around the World (2013, background): “In a similar but broader vein, Kasara (2007) refutes conventional wisdom about African ethnic favoritism in a study of the taxation of agriculture using data from 30 nations.”
Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “Politicians may also be better at engaging politically useful intermediaries in their ethnic home areas (Kasara, 2007).”
From Internet to social safety net: The policy consequences of online participation in China (2019, background): “…with higher socioeconomic status are more likely to turnout to vote, make campaign contributions, and contact governments via various means (Kasara 2007; Schlozman, Verba and Brady 2012; Verba and Nie 1972), and their activism often translates into greater de facto influence over the…”
Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994 (2008, unknown): “…and Stephan 2006), Germany (Stratmann and Baur 2002), India (Rao and Singh 2005), Japan (Horiuchi and Saito 2003), Mexico (Magaloni 2006, ch. 4), Peru (Schady 2000), Russia (Treisman 1996), South Korea (Kwon 2005), and Sweden (Dahlberg and Johansson 2002), as well as across Africa (Kasara 2007).”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, background): “We matched the village and town-level Economic Census and Population Census of India to legislative constituencies, creating, to our knowledge, the first dataset linking economic and population outcomes to legislative boundaries in India.”
The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya (2015, background): “In the period under examination, we have Kikuyu presidents (1963-1978 and 2003-2011) and Kalenjin presidents (1979-2002).”
Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators (2009, background): “We do know there are taxes on agricultural crops, but the rates and processes of collection vary (Kasara 2007).”
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “That they are capable to formulate their own polices and are not exclusively bound by the colonial past is shown for example by Kasara (2007).”
The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria (2014, unknown): “35 Kasara 2007. willingness to pay.”