Agustin Goenaga
Docent
The state does not live by warfare alone : War and revenue in the long nineteenth century
Författare
Summary, in English
Previous research shows that wars contributed to the expansion of state revenues in the Early Modern period and in the twentieth century. There are, however, few cross-national studies on the long nineteenth century. Using new unbalanced panel data on wars and public revenues from 1816 to 1913 for 27 American and European countries, this article provides new evidence that military conflicts very rarely triggered lasting increases in public revenues during those years. We argue that the uneven diffusion of military innovations reduced the probability that international wars would be sufficiently intense to push state actors to seek additional resources. Moreover, the distinction between international and civil wars was blurred by the opportunities for non-state actors to mobilize military forces comparable to those of the state. Therefore, only very intense international and civil wars had a lasting impact on state revenues, but such conflicts were extremely rare, both in Europe and the Americas.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
393-418
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Review of International Organizations
Volym
18
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Economic History
Nyckelord
- America
- Europe
- Fiscal capacity
- Nineteenth century
- Public revenues
- Taxation
- War
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1559-7431