Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Perceptions of Public Safety and (Un)willingness to Pay Taxes in Mexico*

Attitudes toward taxation respond to subjective, sociotropic assessments of public safety rather than to actual risk or individual victimization, countering the conventional wisdom that demand for personal security makes it easier to raise taxes. https:/

A new P&S article argues that personal victimization and heightened perceptions of insecurity decrease willingness to pay taxes to address public safety. https://t.co/QmVeOQgKbd

RT @Gustavo_F_M: Here's the link: 👇👇 https://t.co/JqXutwdxkv

"Perceptions of public safety in [Mexico] as a whole are connected to evaluations of state performance and complicity with crime, which play a critical role in the formation of attitudes toward taxation." https://t.co/QmVeOQgKbd