Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States

by Scott Gehlbach

Book Overview

Social scientists teach that politicians favor groups that are organized over those that are not. Representation Through Taxation challenges this conventional wisdom. Emphasizing that there are limits to what organized interests can credibly promise in return for favorable treatment, Gehlbach shows that politicians may instead give preference to groups - organized or not - that by their nature happen to take actions that are politically valuable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521168805
• ISBN13: 9780521168809
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"