Essays on state capacity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation addresses two closely related questions. How does state capacity --- the ability of governments to implement basic policies, such as taxation --- develop? What are the consequences of state capacity development or its breakdown? These questions are explored in three related essays that use formal reasoning, analysis of original data with quasi-experimental designs, and qualitative evidence from archival research. The first essay presents a theory of the development of state capacity grounded in domestic elite conflict and tests it in post-revolutionary Mexico. The second examines the role of institutions of limited government and elite representation in explaining the expansion of the fiscal state in Spanish America in the late 18th century. Finally, the third essay develops and empirically evaluates a model of strategic tax evasion under the shadow of state collapse.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Garfias, Francisco |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
| Primary advisor | Magaloni, Beatriz |
| Thesis advisor | Magaloni, Beatriz |
| Thesis advisor | Haber, Stephen H, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Advisor | Haber, Stephen H, 1957- |
| Advisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Francisco Garfias. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Ek Francisco Alejandro Royo Garfias
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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