Agents of Empire

English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Sean Gailmard, Berkeley) Gailmard, Sean (University of California

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To understand the foundations of American political institutions, it's necessary to understand the rationale for British colonial institutions that survived the empire. Political institutions in England's American colonies were neither direct imports from England, nor home-grown creations of autonomous colonists. Instead, they emerged from efforts of the English Crown to assert control over their colonies amid limited English state and military capacity. Agents of Empire explores the strategic dilemmas facing a constrained crown in its attempts to assert control. The study argues that colonial institutions emerged from the crown's management of authority delegated to agents-first companies and proprietors establishing colonies; then imperial officials governing the polities they created. The institutions remaining from these strategic dynamics form the building blocks of federalism, legislative power, separation of powers, judicial review, and other institutions that comprise the American polity today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-05-02
Mått160 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt621 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitical Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Antal sidor336
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009316897

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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.

'With this pioneering study, Sean Gailmard shows us that to understand the American institutional inheritance of elected legislatures with decentralized autonomy, we need to hearken back to the challenges faced by the English Crown from Jamestown forwards as it sought to extend colonial rule with limited resources. A must read for anyone interested in comparative political development.' David Stasavage, New York University