Sean Gailmard

Agents of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009316941
• Artikelnr.: 72354764

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.