This is a critical account of governance and public finance in Cameroon. It explores the relationship between the quality of governance in Cameroon, known to be very corrupt, on the one hand, and the ways citizens have come to perceive the state's mobilization of public revenue as a kind of social injustice, on the other. The work begins with a critical review of the basis of public domestic revenue mobilization as a contractual and or reciprocal exchange between citizens and the state, best understood within the theory of a democratic developmental state and situates the Cameroonian context...