2016
DOI: 10.1017/s0212610916000069
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Representation Without Taxation, Taxation Without Consent: The Legacy of Spanish Colonialism in America

Abstract: The essay examines Spain’s colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses the relative burden imposed by colonialism. Constitutional asymmetries between revenue collecting and spending agents constrainedde factogovernments’ power to tax. Inherent disparities embedded in the colonial fiscal system worsened with vaguely defined representation for subjects and territories andvexedtheir aggregation into a modern represe… Show more

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“…2. Fisher (2000); Hamnett (2000); Espina Montero (2001); Contreras (2002); Anna (2003); Brown (2008); Irigoin y Grafe (2008); Summerhill (2008); Flores Guzmán (2010); Tepaske y Brown (2010); Salinas (2011); Kuethe y Andrien (2014); Irigoin (2016); Haro (2019).…”
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“…2. Fisher (2000); Hamnett (2000); Espina Montero (2001); Contreras (2002); Anna (2003); Brown (2008); Irigoin y Grafe (2008); Summerhill (2008); Flores Guzmán (2010); Tepaske y Brown (2010); Salinas (2011); Kuethe y Andrien (2014); Irigoin (2016); Haro (2019).…”
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“…En este sentido, su posible incidencia en la dinamización económica local constituye una expresión más de la participación de los actores americanos en los intereses de la Hacienda Real, y permite confirmar que la acumulación de los sectores dominantes locales se interponía en la circulación fiscal de los excedentes regionales captados por el erario regio. Por lo tanto, la incidencia del gasto público sobre la economía local puede interpretarse como correlato de la negociación que tomaba forma en la arena fiscal del Imperio (Irigoin & Grafe, 2008;Irigoin, 2016).…”
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