State-building and tax regimes in Central America
In Central America, dynamic economic actors have inserted themselves into global markets. Elites atop these sectors attempt to advance a state-building project that will allow them to expand their activities and access political power, but they differ in their internal cohesion and their dominance w...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Revenues, states, and Central America
- 2. State-building in a globalized political economy
- 3. Historical junctures in Central American state-building and tax
- 4. 1990s transnational integration: quantitative evaluation of socioeconomic actors, democratic institutions, and tax regimes
- 5. Inside-out state-building in El Salvador: dominant and cohesive transnational elites
- 6. Outside-in state-building in Honduras: dominant but divided transnational elites
- 7. Crisis in Guatemalan state-building: divided, subordinate transnational elites
- 8. Conclusion: globalization and state-building and tax in developing countries