Lucy Martin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her research combines formal theory, lab experiments, field experiments, and observational data to understand the factors that drive political accountability and state development, particularly those related to taxation. Her work shows that taxation increases the accountability pressures citizens place on governments, and that this affects the conditions under which governments will choose to tax, and when they will seek quasi-voluntary compliance rather than taxing coercively. Her book, Strategic Taxation, was published in 2023 with Oxford University Press. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Economics from Yale University.
Lucy Martin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Her research combines formal theory, lab experiments, field experiments, and observational data to understand the factors that drive political accountability and state development, particularly those related to taxation. Her work shows that taxation increases the accountability pressures citizens place on governments, and that this affects the conditions under which governments will choose to tax, and when they will seek quasi-voluntary compliance rather than taxing coercively. Her book, Strategic Taxation, was published in 2023 with Oxford University Press. She has a Ph.D. in…