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Mark Dincecco

Faculty Associate

Appointments

Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan Department of Political Science

Degree

Ph.D., UCLA (Economics)

Other

Mark Dincecco’s CV
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Research

Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research analyzes the long-run historical determinants of the political and economic development patterns that we observe today, with a focus on Europe and Eurasia. Dincecco has published numerous articles in leading academic journals across both political science and economics. He has written three books: Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650-1913 (Cambridge, 2011), State Capacity and Economic Development: Present and Past (Cambridge, 2017), and From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe (Cambridge, 2017, with Massimiliano Onorato), the winner of the William Riker Best Book Award. Dincecco currently serves as Editor of the Elements in Political Economy Series for Cambridge University Press. In 2016-17, he was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dincecco received his PhD in Economics from UCLA.

Contact

6567 Haven Hall
734.763.8513

Email: [email protected]

Selected Publications

Please also see Michael Shepherd’s curriculum vitae (CV).

Warfare, Fiscal Gridlock, and State Formation during Europe’s Military Revolution, with Gary Cox and Massimiliano Onorato; Journal of Politics, 2023

The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from U.S. States, with Traviss Cassidy and Ugo Troiano; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16: 359-93, 2024

Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament, with Gary Cox and Massimiliano Onorato; British Journal of Political Science, 54: 405-21, 2024.

Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India, with James Fenske, Anil Menon, and Shivaji Mukherjee; Economic Journal, 132: 981-1010, 2022

The Budgetary Origins of Fiscal-Military Prowess, with Gary Cox; Journal of Politics, 83: 851-66, 2021

Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development, with James Fenske and Massimiliano Onorato; Economic History of Developing Regions, 34: 209-50, 2019

Intra-Elite Competition and Long-Run Fiscal Development, with Pablo Beramendi and Melissa Rogers; Journal of Politics, 81: 49-65, 2019

Violent Conflict and Political Development over the Long Run: China versus Europe, with Yuhua Wang; Annual Review of Political Science, 21: 341-58, 2018

Military Conflict and the Rise of Urban Europe, with Massimiliano Onorato; Journal of Economic Growth, 21: 259-82, 2016

State capacity and long‐run economic performance, with G. Katz; The Economic Journal 126 (590), 189-218, 2016

Political transformations and public finances: Europe, 1650–1913, Cambridge University Press, 2011

Fiscal centralization, limited government, and public revenues in Europe, 1650–1913, The Journal of Economic History 69 (1), 48-103, 2009