BOOK
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance
Economic History of the Western World Series, Princeton University Press
August 2022
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ARTICLES
Imperial Aid and Tax Mobilization in Late Colonial Africa
2026. American Political Science Review.
Historical Family Types and Female Political Representation: Persistence and Change
(with Aina Gallego and Ana Tur-Prats).
2026. Journal of Politics.
The Political Legacy of Elite Repression
(with Leonid Peisakhin)
2026. Comparative Political Studies.
Earlier version: UNU-WIDER Working Paper
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development
2025. Annual Review of Political Science.
Do Gains in Political Representation Sweeten Tax Reform in China? It Depends on Who You Ask
(with Jay Kao and Xiaobo Lü).
2024. Political Science Research & Methods.
Working paper version including Taiwan comparison here.
The Divide Over Independence: Explaining Preferences for Secession in an Advanced Open Economy
(with María José Hierro).
2021. American Journal of Political Science.
Extended summary at the AJPS website
IEA Award to the best academic journal article on territorial politics, 2021.
Fiscal Innovation in Nondemocratic Regimes: Elites and the adoption of the Prussian income taxes of the 1890s (with Isabela Mares).
2020. Explorations in Economic History.
War, International Finance, and Fiscal Capacity in the Long Run.
2019. International Organization.
Protection not for Sale, but for Tax Compliance.
2017. International Studies Quarterly.
From Mercantilism to Free Trade: A History of Fiscal Capacity Building.
2015. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
The Non-Democratic Origins of Income Taxation
(with Isabela Mares)
2015. Comparative Political Studies.
You can find a summary at the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.
Spatial Voting in Spain: Testing Competing Models.
2012. South European Politics and Society
Reprinted in Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space, edited by Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Elias Dinas. 2013. London: Routdlege.
Economic Voting in Multitiered Polities.
2012. Electoral Studies.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Taxation, Debt, and Political Fragmentation: Spain's Fiscal Underdevelopment."
(with Pablo Beramendi).
In Press. Beramendi and Boix (eds.) Twisted Modernization: The Political Economy of Spain.
Cambridge University Press.
"Autodeterminación e Independencia desde la Ciencia Política Comparada."
(with María José Hierro).
2021. Dulce Santana Vega (ed.) Una perspectiva Global del Derecho Penal.
Atelier Libros Jurídicos.
OTHER
Book review of "The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022" in the Journal of Economic History. 2023.