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