A democratic rentier state? Taxation, aid dependency and political representation in Benin

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...

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Main Author: Giulia Piccolino
Format: Default Preprint
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22853
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