Data
The Financing the State: Government Tax Revenue from 1800 to 2012 dataset (with Thomas Brambor) provides information on the size and composition of government tax revenue from 31 countries between 1800 and 2012. The codebook is available here. Detailed information and sources for individual countries are available upon request. A short blog post on the dataset, comparing it to other efforts and exploring historical patterns, is available here.
The dataset is available in the following formats:
The dataset is available in the following formats: