Code
3G0B4312N
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- History
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Social sciences
- Economic history
Keywords
tax culture
tax morale
state capacity
fiscal administration
state formation
infrastructural power
English
Comparative
Quantitative
19th Century
Belgium
Western Europe
History
Project description
The French revolution created a new fiscality and tax administration; key elements in the state formation processes and the organization of society itself. This research project examines the contrast between the continuity of the former fiscal system and the Belgian economic expansion (1795-1852). Which role did the tax administration play in the formation of the modern Belgian ‘fiscal state’?