کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
988783 1481162 2014 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Taxation and Democratization
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
مالیات و دموکراتیزه شدن
کلمات کلیدی
مالیات، دموکراسی، انتقال دموکراتیک، نوآوری های مالیاتی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


• This paper studies the effect of taxation on democratization.
• The dataset covers 122 countries over the period 1981–2008.
• The government revenues to GDP ratio is used as a proxy for taxation.
• Instruments for government revenues are value added taxes and autonomous revenue authorities.
• The results suggest that taxation has a positive effect on democratization.

SummaryAnecdotal evidence from pre-modern Europe and North America suggests that rulers are forced to become more democratic once they impose a significant fiscal burden on their citizens. One difficulty in testing this “taxation causes democratization” hypothesis empirically is the endogeneity of public revenues. I use introductions of value added taxes and autonomous revenue authorities as sources of quasi-exogenous variation to identify the causal effect of the fiscal burden borne by citizens on democracy. The instrumental variables regressions with a panel of 122 countries over the period 1981–2008 suggest that revenues have on average a mild positive effect on democracy.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 56, April 2014, Pages 287–301
نویسندگان
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