Democracies extract more tax revenue per capita than autocracies. This book addresses the origins of taxation, examining how it can be made compatible with political liberty and economic growth. This…

It advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory’s predictions. The evidence in this book demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at…

Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the best of both worlds. In this volume, internationally recognised political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral…