Imperial Rule, the Imposition of Bureaucratic Institutions, and their Long-Term Legacies

Vogler, Jan P.

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“…In the supplementary material, I use the same data to compare pretreatment (i.e., prepartitioning) characteristics across the partitions. These tests provide additional support for the claim of quasi-randomness; Vogler 2019c.…”

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“…93Dahlström, Lapuente, and Teorell 2012; Evans and Rauch 1999; Calvo and Murillo 2004; Diaz 2006, 217. In the supplementary material, I empirically demonstrate that this relationship exists; Vogler 2019c.…”

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“…24Becker et al 2016; Bukowski 2019; Grosfeld and Zhuravskaya 2015. Furthermore, in the supplementary material, I show that differences in pretreatment characteristics are either small or insignificant; Vogler 2019c; “Pretreatment” refers to the time period before the partitioning of Poland.…”

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“…In the supplementary material, using this subset of the data, I empirically demonstrate that a larger number of employees is not associated with superior quality in the provision of services in these specific areas. Furthermore, I discuss the use of the measurement ( employees/population ) per capita in the literature on state building; Vogler 2019c.…”

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Vogler¹

2019

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Significant variation in the institutions and efficiency of public bureaucracies across countries and regions are observed. These differences could be partially responsible for divergence in the effectiveness of policy implementation, corruption levels, and economic development. Do imperial legacies contribute to the observed variation in the organization of public administrations? Historical foreign rule and colonization have been shown to have lasting effects on legal systems, political institutions, and trade in former controlled territories. Imperial legacies could also explain variations in the performance of public administrations. The author uses the case of Poland to investigate the long-term effects of foreign rule on bureaucratic systems. Historically, Poland was split between three imperial powers with very different public administrations: Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Statistical analyses of original data collected through a survey of more than 650 Polish public administrations suggest that some present-day differences in the organization and efficiency of bureaucracies are due to imperial legacies.

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2019

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“…In the appendix (subsection A.24), we elaborate in more detail on the issue. Furthermore, in subsection A.13, we provide an analysis that simultaneously accounts for both conservative parties.17 In the appendix (subsection A.13), we provide an analysis that considers the combined vote shares of all these parties as the dependent variable (as the flip side of Conservative Party vote shares).18 Variations in local culture and norms can persist over long time periods and shape political-economic outcomes(Acharya, Blackwell and Sen, 2018; Alesina and Giuliano, 2015;Vogler, 2019).…”

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Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

Vogler

Gingerich

2020

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Do pandemics have lasting consequences for political behavior? We address this question by examining the consequences of the most deadly pandemic of the last millennium: the Black Death (1347-1351). Our claim is that pandemics can influence politics in the long run if they impose sufficient loss of life so as to augment the price of labor relative to other factors of production. When this occurs, labor repressive regimes (such as serfdom) become untenable, which ultimately leads to the development of proto-democratic institutions and associated political cultures that shape modalities of political engagement for generations. We test our theory by tracing out the local consequences of the Black Death in German-speaking Central Europe. We find that areas hit hardest by the pandemic were more likely to: (1) adopt inclusive political institutions and equitable land ownership patterns; (2) exhibit electoral behavior indicating independence from landed elite influence during the transition to mass politics; and (3) have significantly lower vote shares for Hitler's National Socialist Party in the Weimar Republic's fateful 1930 and July 1932 elections. * Comments are welcome.

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The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy

Vogler

2022

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Could imperial rule affect state institutions at the national, regional, and local level differently? No systematic theory to answer this question exists, which is surprising given the importance that is attributed to foreign rule for political-administrative organization around the world. The effectiveness of imperial rule may differ along the administrative hierarchy because empires are often subject to financial constraints, limits on organizational capabilities, and informational asymmetries. Therefore, a commonly used approach—aggregation at the national level—may yield erroneous findings about colonial legacies by ignoring vital nuances. To address this gap, I develop a novel theory of imperial pervasiveness and test it through a number of statistical analyses. Leveraging an original dataset of citizen perceptions of state institutions in Romania, this study reveals vastly different long-term effects of historical Habsburg rule at the regional and local levels. The results indicate that we need to rethink the study of colonial origins.

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Imperial Rule, the Imposition of Bureaucratic Institutions, and their Long-Term Legacies

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Imperial Rule, the Imposition of Bureaucratic Institutions, and their Long-Term Legacies

Imperial Rule, the Imposition of Bureaucratic Institutions, and their Long-Term Legacies

Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy

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