relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/892/
title: Warfare, Taxation, and Political Change: Evidence from the Italian Risorgimento
creator: Dincecco, Mark
creator: Federico, Giovanni
creator: Vindigni, Andrea
subject: HC Economic History and Conditions
subject: HG Finance
subject: JN Political institutions (Europe)
description: We examine the relationships between warfare, taxation, and political change in the context of the political unification of the Italian peninsula. Using a comprehensive new database, we argue that external and internal threat environments had significant implications for the demand for military strength, which in turn had important ramifications for fiscal policy and the likelihood of constitutional reform and related improvements in the provision of non-military public services. Our analytic narrative complements recent theoretical and econometric works about state capacity. By emphasizing public finances, we also uncover novel insights about the forces underlying state formation in Italy.
publisher: Cambridge University Press
date: 2011-12-01
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/892/1/JEH%20risorgimento%20dec%202011.pdf
identifier:   Dincecco, Mark and Federico, Giovanni and Vindigni, Andrea  Warfare, Taxation, and Political Change: Evidence from the Italian Risorgimento.  Journal of Economic History, 71 (4).  pp. 887-914.  ISSN 0022-0507      (2011)  
relation: http://www.rairo-ita.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JEH