Alexander Lee, Jack Paine

Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009423519
• Artikelnr.: 72354916

Autorenporträt

Alexander Lee is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford and his BA from Yale. His research focuses on the factors governing the success or failure of political institutions, especially the historical evolution of state capacity, the political economy of South Asia and the causes and consequences of identity politics. He is the author of The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics ( 2022), From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India (2020) and Development in Multiple Dimensions: Social Power and Regional Policy in India (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A theory of colonial electoral institutions
3. Representation in settler colonies through 1850
4. Imperial expansion and restrictive elections: 1850-1945
5. Mass franchise expansion after 1945
6. Postcolonial persistence
7. Conclusion
Appendix: data and regression
Bibliography.