BOOK
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Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance
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Economic History of the Western World Series, Princeton University Press
August 2022
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ARTICLES
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Do Gains in Political Representation Sweeten Tax Reform in China? It Depends on Who You Ask (with Jay Kao and Xiaobo Lü). 2022. Political Science Research & Methods.
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Working paper version with Appendix here.
The Divide Over Independence: Explaining Preferences for Secession in an Advanced Open Economy (with María José Hierro). 2021. American Journal of Political Science.
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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.
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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 (as part of a Special Issues on Spanish politics). Reprinted in Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space, edited by Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Elias Dinas. 2013. London: Routdlege.
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Economic Voting in Multitiered Polities. 2012. Electoral Studies.
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OTHER
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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.
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