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Agents of Empire : English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions by Sean Gailmard (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009316923
ISBN-139781009316927
eBay Product ID (ePID)4065559524
Product Key Features
Book TitleAgents of Empire : English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions
Number of Pages250 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicPolitical Economy, American Government / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science
AuthorSean Gailmard
Book SeriesPolitical Economy of Institutions and Decisions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2023-037485
Dewey Edition23/eng/20231122
Reviews'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
Dewey Decimal320.97309/033
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisProvides 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberJK54.G17 2024
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