WARS AND STATE CAPACITY

By T. Besley, Torsten Persson. 2008

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Debraj Ray
2. Joan Esteban
3. A. Bigsten
4. B. Geddes
5. James Fenske
6. T. Baskaran
7. L. Cingolani
8. M. Alsan

In Political Science and International Relations

1. A. Bigsten
2. Joan Esteban
3. B. Geddes
4. Debraj Ray
5. James Fenske
6. T. Baskaran
7. L. Cingolani

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Debraj Ray
2. Joan Esteban
3. A. Bigsten
4. B. Geddes
5. James Fenske
6. T. Baskaran
7. L. Cingolani
8. Abhijit Banerjee

Citations in the corpus

• The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics (2009, unknown): “Unlike external war, anticipated civil wars will therefore have detrimental effects on the incentive to build state capacity see Besley and Persson (2008) who take the incidence of civil war as given.”
• State Capacity, Conflict and Development (2009, unknown): “In Besley and Persson (2008c), we also obtain an ordering result of this form (under weaker assumptions) in a related model where the choice of armies is continuous and institutions constrain the behavior of the incumbent and opposition ex post.”
• The State of State Capacity : a review of concepts, evidence and measures (2013, background): “In Besley and Persson (2008) they analyze how self-interested incumbents decide to use part of the government’s revenue to invest in fiscal capacities that enable higher tax extraction from the society in the future.”
• Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “Finally, the historical narratives relating taxation to representation usually involve the existence of an external threat to the state (Besley & Persson, 2008, 2009).”
• Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, unknown): “Our measures of fiscal capacity follow those used by Besley and Persson (2009b). The key variable, shown in row 2, is the share of direct taxes (i.e., income, social security, payroll, and property taxes) in total tax revenues from the Government Financial Statistics database of the IMF. We average ”
• CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017, background): “The recent contributions by Besley & Persson (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and McBride et al. (2011) have not only popularized among economists the notion of “state capacity” but have also developed a more nuanced theoretical basis for thinking about the intertwined connections between capacity and…”
• Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “In addition to the geographic theories listed above, other views stress factors such the relative benefits of “stationary” versus “roving” bandits (Olson, 1993), the relative benefits of different mechanisms for governing markets (Dixit, 2004) inter-state competition (Gennaioli and Voth, 2011; Tilly”