Marc P. Berenson is a senior lecturer at King's Russia Institute, King's College London. He has undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank in Russia and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Tax and Development Programme. After receiving his B.A. from Harvard University, Massachusetts, he founded and directed the 'Law in Action' program for Freedom House in Ukraine, before receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 2006.
'Taxes and Trust is an outstanding book. Combining extensive field research, surveys and a deep knowledge of how tax administration works in Poland, Russia and the Ukraine, Berenson offers insights that go far beyond tax and tax compliance. Taxes and Trust teaches us that effective governance requires both administrative efficiency and procedural justice.' Sven Steinmo, Robert Schuman Professor, European University Institute, Florence 'Taxes and Trust is an impressive piece of scholarship. It is empirically and theoretically ambitious, and the product of many years of thinking, researching and analyzing patterns in tax compliance in three important Eastern European cases … Research like this is rare.' Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College 'Berenson's Taxes and Trust merits status as a major contribution on an important topic of post-communist political economy. There is much to be learned that is new in this study. The book will also be of value to comparative taxation and political economy specialists more generally.' Gerald M. Easter, Canadian Slavonic Papers