Drawing on the history of statebuilding in Western Europe, fiscal sociology has proposed the existence of a mutually … reinforcing effect between the emergence of representative government and effective taxation. This paper looks at the case of … Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It …

Drawing on the history of statebuilding in Western Europe, fiscal sociology has proposed the existence of a mutually … reinforcing effect between the emergence of representative government and effective taxation. This paper looks at the case of … Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It …

. "Fiscal Sociology" commenced in 1918 when Joseph A. Schumpeter examined the links between capitalism and taxation, arguing … capitalist economies. The identification of taxation as an important component of capitalism has continued to change the way that … for scholars seeking a bridge between taxation law and contextual, historical, and anthropological analyses of the …