Introduction
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This data set contains data for 1997 and for Sub-Saharan Africa taken from Michael L. Ross, ``Replication data for: Does Taxation Lead to Representation?'', 
http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/14305. See Ross (2004) for more detail.

Variables
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country:       Three-letter code for the country.
year:          Year.
countryname:   Full country name.
expenditure:   Expenditure, total (% of GDP).
gdpgrowth:     GDP growth (annual %).
gdppc:         GDP per capita, PPP (current international $).
loggdppc:      Natural log of GDP per capita - ``Income'' in Ross (2004).
taxrevenue:    Tax revenue (% of GDP).
trade:         Trade (% of GDP, PPP).
socsectaxes:   Social security taxes as percentage of revenue.
revenue:       Current revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP)
taxes:         Taxes on goods, services, income, profits, and cap gains as % of current revenue.
govtspen:      Government spending as a fraction of GDP, incl. both government consumption and investment.
metal:         Ores and metals exports (% of GDP).
democracy:     Democracy scale, 0 = autoritarian regime, 10 = democracy.
corruption:    Level of corruption in government.
ruleoflaw:     Rule of law / law and order tradition.
bureaucracy:   Bureaucratic quality.
repudiation:   Repudiation of government contracts.
goodgovt:      Index of good governance (based on corruption, rule of law, and bureaucracy).
ethtension:    Ethnic tensions.
islam:         Percentage of population that is Muslim in 1970.
catholic:      Percentage of population that is Catholic in 1970.
elf:           Ethno-linguistic fractionalization in 1960.
urban:         Urban population (% of total).
population:    Size of the population.
logpopulation: Natural log of population size.
britcolony:    Dummy variable, 1 if former British colony.
oecd:          Dummy variable, 1 if member of OECD, excluding Mexico and South Korea.
incomegrp:     World Development Indicator classification of income group of country.
region:        World Development Indicator classification of the region.

References
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Ross, Michael (2004), "Does taxation lead to representation?", British Journal of Political Science 34, 229–249.