Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America

By M. Julien, M. Centeno. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Causes of Tax Reform in Latin America, 1977-95 (2004, background): “First, the taxation of assets never constituted a major source of state revenue (in general, see Centeno 1997, 2002).”
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (2008, background): “War and threat As the review above emphasised, a large body of literature points to war and threat as the incentive for the long process of state-building that began in Europe. As Tilly (1985) memorably put it, by stimulating demand for revenue: ‘war made the state’.”
Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research (2013, background): “The longer the gaps between censuses, the lower the census frequency measure. gued in Centeno (2002b) and Soifer (2013), countries that can conduct censuses have not only the capacity to collect information but also exhibit higher levels of territorial reach.”
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia (2009, background): “It has also suggested that inter-state competition and warfare (Hintze, 1975, Tilly, 1975, 1990, Brewer, 1988, Herbst, 2000, Bates, 2001, Centeno, 2002) and domestic political competition in uence the incentives of politicians to build state capacity (Acemoglu, Ticchi, Vindigni, 2006, Besley and…”
Export-Oriented Populism: Commodities and Coalitions in Argentina (2009, background): “Reliance on the export of agricultural and mineral commodities has been linked to the formation of weak states (Karl 1997; Centeno 2002) and to economic underdevelopment (Cardoso and Faletto 1979).”
Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: The Latin American Case* (2014, background): “…to be the weakness of Latin American states that emerged after independence, which were unable to oppose particularistic interests; enforce the rule of law; and extract resources to invest in human capital, infrastructure, or public services (Centeno 2002, Centeno & Ferraro 2013, Coatsworth 2008).”
The State of State Capacity : a review of concepts, evidence and measures (2013, background): “In line with Centeno (2002) he argues that the Latin American state has been “extremely weak in terms of the most basic capacity measures (: 2).”
Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe: The Interaction Between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Regime (2013, background): “For extensions of the argument to the developing countries in the modern period, see Centeno (2002) for Latin America, Lustick (1997) for the Middle East, and Herbst (2000) for sub-Saharan Africa.”