 Institutional Copying in the 20th Century: The Role of 14,000 British Colonial OfficersJournal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2017, vol. 137, issue 1-2, 93-119 Abstract: 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 new dataset f 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. It puts a radical focus on the individual actors involved in the institutional reforms before independence. The article discusses fundamental information on the British colonial service and presents preliminary analyses from within the new research agenda. JEL-codes: B52 H83 N40 O17 O19 O43 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dah:aeqjce:v137_y2017_i1-2_q1-2_p93-119 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch is currently edited by Peter J. Boettke, Nils Goldschmidt, Stefan Kolev, Stephen T. Ziliak and Joachim Zweynert More articles in Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch from Duncker & Humblot, Berlin |
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