What state capacity is and how to strengthen it remain open questions, as the underlying
incentives of the state, its citizens, and its agents align in some areas of state activity and …

Sources of state revenue have a major impact on patterns of state formation. This
proposition from fiscal sociology is valid and convincing in the context of western European …

Why do similar sets of formal institutions often have such divergent outcomes? An analysis
of political settlements goes some way to answering this question by bringing into focus the …

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern …

The more a government is effective and fair, the more legitimacy that government is likely to
attain, and the more it will possess the potential to elicit compliance without excessive …

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection
of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing view is that non …

Energy Saving Scheme Based On Traffic Forwarding For Optical Fiber Access Networks
Page 1 Abstract We report on an energy saving block that regroups and powers off OLTs …

Resource mobilization lies at the heart of economic development. And among various
means of resource mobilization (eg, forced savings, inflation tax, manipulation of terms of …

Este artículo analiza cuáles han sido los factores que explican las diferencias en la
recaudación del impuesto predial en México entre los estados de la federación durante el …

This paper addresses the conditions under which donor and non-state actor service
provision is likely to undermine or strengthen citizens' legitimating beliefs. On the one hand …