State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract
建立了一个基于互惠义务的模型，研究公民文化如何通过公民纳税与国家提供公共产品的互惠关系来扩大财政能力，并探讨政治制度与共同利益在公民文化形成中的作用。
This paper explores the role of civic culture in expanding fiscal capacity by developing a model based on reciprocal obligations: citizens pay their taxes and the state provides public goods. Civic culture evolves over time according to the relative payoff of civic‐minded and materialist citizens. A strong civic culture manifests itself as high tax revenues sustained by high levels of voluntary tax compliance and provision of public goods. This captures the idea of government as a reciprocal social contract between the state and its citizens. The paper highlights the role of political institutions and common interests in the emergence of civic culture.