TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0022-0507
Y1  - 2009/02/01/
JF  - Journal of Economic History
N2  - Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. This article uses a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and public revenues in Europe from 1650 to 1913. Panel regressions indicate that centralized and limited regimes were associated with significantly higher revenues than fragmented and absolutist ones. Structural break tests also suggest close relationships between major turning points in revenue series and political transformations. 
N1  - Revenue data available at the Global Price and Income History Group Website: http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/Evidence.htm.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
VL  - 69
EP  - 103
A1  - Dincecco, Mark
SP  - 48
ID  - eprints20
TI  - Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650-1913
AV  - public
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050709000345
IS  - 1
ER  -