Bargaining Strategies in recent tax reforms in Tanzania

The authors’ motivation for this research and so this Working Paper was on their conceptualisation of revenue bargaining as it hones in on political dynamics whereby the interests and power of members of government and of different revenue providers take center stage. A political settlement approach that conceptualises political dynamics fitting both democratic and non-democratic settings and that can include bargaining over both collective (public) and narrow goods (e.g., patronage). The political settlement approach helps us identify powerful organisations in society and their interactions with each other. Using a framework combining political settlement and fiscal contract theory, this research programme aims to offer a series of political economy analyses of specific bargains, albeit under the DIIS · Danish Institute for International Studies. Read on…

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