Sean Gailmard (Berkeley University of California)

Agents of Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a new strategic logic of English imperial government in North American colonies, and why the crown was ultimately unable to control them. It shows how strategic dynamics in colonial institutions structured American state building. For readers in comparative state formation, imperial legacies, political economy, and American politics.

Produktdetails

• Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781009316927
• ISBN-10: 1009316923
• Artikelnr.: 69230745

Autorenporträt

Sean Gailmard is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the development of American political institutions and strategic models of choice in politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Economic incentives: the origins of colonial autonomy
2. Governance incentives: the balanced colonial constitution
3. From incentives to institutions: contractual imperialism in practice
4. The rise and fall of autocratic imperialism
5. Economic regulation: imperial administration in the colonies
6. Political regulation: legislative review and colonial autonomy
7. Colonial assembly power under regulatory imperialism
8. The institutional bequests of empire.