Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga receive three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Imperial Capacity: Studying the Impacts of Colonial Bureaucracies on State Development"
Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However, we know less about the specific instruments that empires used to govern colonial territories and ho