Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Between coercion and contract: competing narratives on taxation and governance

By M. Moore. 2008

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Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe: The Interaction Between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Regime (2013, background): “Also see OddHelge and Moore (2008) and the discussion in Hoffman and Norberg (1994, 309).”
Taxation, Political Accountability and Foreign Aid: Lessons from Somaliland (2012, background): “…autocratic governments who needed tax revenues in order to survive inter-state conflicts on the one hand, and citizens who were only willing to consent to taxation in exchange for greater government accountability on the other (Moore, 2008, provides an excellent overview of this literature).”
Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research (2014, background): “These potential connections suggest that, if pursued in a comparatively ‘contractual’ manner (Moore, 2008), taxation of the informal economy could become an important stimulus for expanding political voice among relatively marginalised groups.”