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States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆
Noel D. Johnson,Mark Koyama +1 more
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In this paper, the authors argue that the study of economic history provides vital insights into the process through which modern states have acquired "state capacity" and evaluate the process of state building across a range of different countries in Europe and Asia.About:
This article is published in Explorations in Economic History.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 207 citations till now.read more
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Nations and Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a typology of nationalisms in industrial and agro-literature societies, and a discussion of the difficulties of true nationalism in industrial societies.
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Growing public - social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century
TL;DR: Addison and Siebert as discussed by the authors describe anti-union legislation in the UK during the period 19801993 and relate it to the recent decline of unionism, and discuss the prospect of new legislation seeking to regulate the employment relation from the level of the European Union.
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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Petra Stykow,Joachim Zweynert +1 more
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective is presented, where the authors focus on the historical perspective of the development strategy and the historical context.
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Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880–1940: Maximizing revenue or minimizing effort?
TL;DR: This article developed an analytical framework for comparing colonial tax and spending patterns and applied it to eight British African colonies (1880-1940) and found that colonial fiscal systems did not adhere to a uniform logic, that minimalism prevailed in West Africa, extractive features were more pronounced in East Africa, and that Mauritius revealed characteristics of a developmental state already before 1940.
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Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650-1913
TL;DR: This article used a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and public revenues in Europe from 1650 to 1913, and found that centralized and limited regimes were associated with significantly higher revenues than fragmented and absolutist ones.
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The nature and historical evolution of an exceptional fiscal state and its possible significance for the precocious commercialization and industrialization of the British economy from Cromwell to Nelson
TL;DR: A survey of recent research in the conjoined histories of national taxation and finance deploys a stage theory and reciprocal comparisons to explain when, how, and why England's political elites constructed a fiscal constitution for an island state that provided the external security, internal order, and successful mercantilism to carry the economy to a plateau of possibilities for a precocious industrial revolution as mentioned in this paper.
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When distance mattered: Geographic scale and the development of european representative assemblies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that in an era of costly communications and transport, an intensive form of political representative was much easier to sustain in geographically compact polities than in other places and during other time periods.
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The state in early modern France
TL;DR: Collins as discussed by the authors argues that fundamental changes in French society made the monarchical, ministerial state a dangerous anachronism by the 1750s, leading to political impasse by the second half of the eighteenth century.
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