eprintid: 11 rev_number: 38 eprint_status: archive userid: 18 importid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/00/11 datestamp: 2011-02-07 11:02:12 lastmod: 2011-09-30 08:00:57 status_changed: 2011-09-30 08:00:57 type: book metadata_visibility: show contact_email: m.dincecco@imtlucca.it item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Dincecco, Mark creators_id: m.dincecco@imtlucca.it title: Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650-1913 ispublished: pub subjects: HC subjects: HJ subjects: JN divisions: EIC full_text_status: none abstract: How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, this book examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of efficient fiscal institutions was the result of two fundamental political transformations that resolved long-standing problems of fiscal fragmentation and absolutism. States gained tax force through fiscal centralization and restricted ruler power through parliamentary limits, which enabled them to gather large tax revenues and channel funds toward public services with positive economic benefits. Using a novel combination of descriptive, case study and statistical methods, the book pursues this argument through a systematic investigation of a new panel database that spans eleven countries and four centuries. The book's findings are significant for our understanding of economic history and have important consequences for current policy debates. date: 2011-09-26 date_type: published series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series publisher: Cambridge University Press pages: 248 refereed: TRUE isbn: 9780521192330 official_url: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6451784/Political%20Transformations%20and%20Public%20Finances/?site_locale=en_US citation: Dincecco, Mark Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650-1913. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521192330 (2011)