The articles in this symposium were first presented at a conference hosted by the European Union Center and the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University in the spring of 2017. The three papers represented in this collection study the underlying motivations for taxation in non-democracies (Hollenbach 2019), how regional inequality in endowments can inhibit central government taxation (Beramendi and Rogers 2018), and introduce a new comprehensive data set of tax introductions (Seelkopf et al. 2019). We provide a short discussion of the papers’ contributions.

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该专题讨论会的文章首先于2017年春季在德克萨斯州农工大学欧洲联盟中心和政治学系主办的会议上发表。本论文集中的三篇论文研究了非民主国家税收的基本动因。 （Hollenbach 2019），地区regional赋不平等如何抑制中央政府的税收（Beramendi and Rogers 2018），并引入一套新的全面税收数据集（Seelkopf et al.2019）。我们简要讨论了论文的贡献。