Articles
Andersson, Per F. 2026. "Financing the State: Government Tax Revenue from 1800 to 2012." European Journal of Political Research (online first).
Andersson, Per F., Martina Testori, and Sergio Lo Iacono. 2026. "Inequality Aversion and Prosocial Punishment: Evidence from a One-Shot Public Goods Game." PloS one 21(1): e0337425.
Andersson, Per F. and Jan Teorell. 2025. "The Double-Edged Sword: How State Capacity Prolongs Autocratic Tenure but Hastens Democratization." Journal of Conflict Resolution 69(6): 980-1004.
Andersson, Per F. 2023. “Fiscal Capacity in Non-democratic States: the Origins and Expansion of the Income Tax.” Journal of Institutional Economics 19(3):364-378 . Working paper version. Summary on the WIDERAngle blog. Shortlisted for the 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize.
Andersson, Per F. 2022. “Institutions and Left-wing Tax Strategy: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden.” Comparative Politics 54(2): 279-301. Ungated version. Summary on LSE's British Politics blog.
Andersson, Per F. 2022. “Institutions and Left-wing Tax Strategy: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden.” Comparative Politics 54(2): 279-301. Ungated version. Summary on LSE's British Politics blog.
Andersson, Per F. and Johannes Lindvall. 2018. “Crises, Investments, and Political Institutions”. Journal of Theoretical Politics 30(4): 410-430
Andersson, Per F. 2018. “Democracy, Urbanization, and Tax Revenue.” Studies in Comparative International Development 53(1): 111-159.
Andersson, Per F. 2017. “The Impact of Experts on Tax Policy in Post-war Britain and Sweden.” Acta Oeconomica 67(s1): 79-96.
Book Chapters
Andersson, Per F. 2022. “Political Institutions and Income Taxes”, in Genschel, Philipp & Laura Seelkopf (eds.) Global Taxation. How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, Oxford University Press.
Andersson, Per F. 2021. “Political Institutions and Taxation, 1800-1945”, in Hakelberg Lukas & Laura Seelkopf (eds.) Handbook on the Politics of Taxation. Edward Elgar Publishing, London. Online appendix.
Andersson, Per F. 2021. “Political Institutions and Taxation, 1800-1945”, in Hakelberg Lukas & Laura Seelkopf (eds.) Handbook on the Politics of Taxation. Edward Elgar Publishing, London. Online appendix.
Other Publications
Andersson, Per F. 2020. Review of "Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development" by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard, and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad. The Journal of Development Studies 56(5): 1056-1066.
Andersson, Per F. 2014. Review of "Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China" by Wenkai He. Published online at Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom), http://critcom.councilforeuropeanstudies.org/paths-toward-the-modern-fiscal-state/
Under Review
From Vichy to the Front National: Exploring the Legacies of World War II on Support for the Far Right in France (with Agustín Goenaga and Andrea Papadia).
Authoritarian State-building: Chile under Military Rule (1924-31) (with Jan Teorell and Oriol Sabaté).
Working Papers
State Weakness and Democratic Erosion in the 21st Century (with Jan Teorell).
Work in Progress
How the Romans Ruled the World: Aqueducts and the Management of Empire (with Andrea Matranga, Filip Novokmet, Andrea Papadia, and Tomasz Zawisza).
Losing Twice: the Political (Mis-)Representation of the Poor in Diverging Electoral Contexts (with Mirjam Dageförde).
The Redistributive Impact of Government Budgets (data project).