Ethnic Composition, Legibility and the Conditional Effect of War on Fiscal Capacity

• In Event: Historical Approaches to the Study of Middle East Politics (Co-sponsored with Section 66: Politics & History)

Brief Overview

This study argues that ethnically heterogeneous and dissimilar populations are more illegible to the state and this makes it less likely that rulers will invest in fiscal capacity during wartime.

Author

• Yusuf Magiya, Columbia University