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Information Capacity and the Modern State

Augustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Thomas Brambor, co-authored the article ”The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State”, which has been publish in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”.

This article presents new cross-country comparative evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about themselves, their territories, and their populations. 

The authors compile data on five institutions and policies: the regular implementation of a reliable census, the regular release of statistical yearbooks, the introduction of civil and population registers, and the establishment of a government agency tasked with processing statistical information. 

The authors then ask how political regime changes have influenced the development of information capacity since the French Revolution.

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