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Persson, Anna. "States, Nations, and Taxation - Citizenship Policies and the Evolution of State Power" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178654_index.html>

Persson, A. , 2007-02-28 "States, Nations, and Taxation - Citizenship Policies and the Evolution of State Power" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178654_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Over the last decades, the idea of ?good governance? has come to dominate academic research, as well as the policy agenda of states and international organizations, regarding the construction and maintenance of strong and legitimate states. According to this agenda, fair procedures, the rule of law, and the lack of corruption and nepotism in the institutions of the political system will eventually ensure the establishment of trustful and cooperative relations between states and their societies and, as a result, allow for the development of effective and legitimate states. While this may very well be true, the main argument of this paper is that there are other aspects of political institutions, and the ways in which they shape and constrain state-society relations, that should be taken into consideration before we can finally say that we have found the solution in terms of how to overcome state weakness. This paper examines how citizenship policies affect the extent to which states are able to acquire and maintain domestic power. Citizenship policies can be understood in terms of boundary mechanisms. As such, they also provide an extraordinary opportunity for states to tie people to the defined territory. While the good governance agenda has, by and large, explicitly or implicitly, advocated an assimilationist approach towards minority groups and immigrants as to allow for the development of a strong state, few empirical studies have actually been conducted that confirm the primacy of such an approach. The main question of this study is how different government policies towards ethnic and cultural diversity affect the evolution of states. More specifically, have countries that have adopted an assimilationist approach fared better in terms of state capacity compared to countries that have adopted a multicultural approach? The importance of taking a closer look at how different policies towards ethnic diversity impact on state capacity must be considered urgent. While it was perhaps before feasible to divide countries into those with ethnically homogeneous societies and those defined by ethnic diversity, such polarities do no longer exist. Today, more or less all nation-states are, in some way or another, ethnically or culturally diverse. The indicator of state capacity that will be used is taxation. The study sets out in three different contexts ? developing states, liberal welfare states and expansive welfare states.

The Accidental State and the Contested Nation: Can Politics Trump Identity? Some Evidence from Citizenship Policies in Russia and Ukraine, 1990-2002

Acting Locally, Thinking Globally: State and Local Governments, National Policy Issues, and Engaged Citizenship