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Institutional Copying in the 20th Century: The Role of 14,000 British Colonial Officers

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Seidler, Valentin
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Did individual British officers determine the institutional development of former colonies? The article presents a new research program into institutional reform and economic development based on a newly established dataset of over 14,000 biographical entries of senior colonial officers in 54 British colonies between 1939 and 1966. The rich data permit a new methodological approach towards the question of how institutions are copied into countries with a radical focus on the individual actors involved in the institutional reforms before independence. The article discusses fundamental background information on the British colonial service in the 20th century and presents first preliminary analyses from within the new research agenda.
Related Links	https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/345-2017_seidler.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3055564
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3055564
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2017-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Development Studies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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