Friday, October 21, 2005

Fiscal Policy is central

Fiscal Policy is central to the process of state building.


States that are able to effectively extract revenues from
their societies are better suited to compete with external
rivals.

the modern state is the “tax state,” Schumpeter (1954);


taxation is the “touchstone of the politics of the modern
state” Pierson (1996: 33), EU extracts 1 %, not a state.