The fiscal state in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth
Abstract: What is the level of state capacity in developing countries today, and what have been its drivers over the past century? We construct a
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Abstract: What is the level of state capacity in developing countries today, and what have been its drivers over the past century? We construct a
Abstract: Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century had settled across the globe, from North and South America to Australia to the southern tip
Abstract: This chapter written for the Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy argues that you cannot understand the history of globalization without taking political factors
Abstract: This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. One argues that propaganda’s content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is