Agents of Empire - English Imperial Governance Making of American Political

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Gailmard, Sean (University of California Gailmard, Gailmard Sean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009316897
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931689-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, British Empire, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, HISTORY / United States / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies