About

I am a Postdoc at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Prior to this, I was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019). I work on the origins of state capacity, the impact of institutions, and taxation. 

My research on state capacity concerns the constitutional origins of tax capacity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  I am also interested in how political institutions mediate the impact of ideology on tax policy, in particular under what conditions left-wing parties tax the poor. In addition, I work on how the political representation of the poor is related to inequality, and how taxation affects cooperation in public goods games.

My work has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Institutional Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Oxford University Press, and Edward Elgar Press. You can find out more under Research and on my academic CV.
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You can find my google scholar profile here.
Email: per.andersson [at] statsvet.su.se
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