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SUMMARY:The Higher Research Seminar: Sarai-Anne Ikenze\, Ted Svensson\, Agu
 stín Goenaga\, Lund University – “Imperial Bureaucracies”
DESCRIPTION:Contact: ian.manners@svet.lu.se\n\nImperial Capacity: Studying 
 the Impacts of Colonial Bureaucracies on State DevelopmentHow did historic
 al empires govern the territories they conquered?&nbsp\;How did imperial g
 overnance strategies differ across colonial possessions and over time?&nbs
 p\;These questions are not only central to understanding the particulariti
 es of empires as polities distinct from territorial states\, but are cruci
 al to debates about the drivers of imperial conquest and settlement and th
 e long-term legacies of colonialism.&nbsp\;In this project\, we aim to pro
 vide a fine-grained and systematic account of British imperial governance 
 and its legacies by:Identifying what types of instruments the British depl
 oyed to govern territories across both time and space\; and&nbsp\;Measurin
 g how variation in the deployment of those instruments has shaped post-col
 onial (political and economic) development.&nbsp\;In this presentation\, w
 e introduce the British Colonial Institutions Dataset (BCID)\, a time-seri
 es cross-sectional dataset of over 200 territories that provides annual da
 ta on each territory’s political relationship with the British Empire\, 
 type of local colonial authorities\, and administrative links with other c
 olonial territories.&nbsp\;We then present preliminary findings from three
  papers related to the project.&nbsp\;In a first paper\, we use data from 
 the BCID to map British colonial networks and governance patterns over tim
 e and across regions\, engaging with IR debates about the nature and chara
 cteristics of the British Empire.&nbsp\;The second paper draws on the BCID
  to revisit classic hypotheses about the&nbsp\;correlates&nbsp\;of colonia
 l institutions\, examining how factors such as geography and pre-colonial 
 political structures shaped British imperial rule.In the third paper\, we 
 explore the colonial origins and post-colonial legacies of federalism in t
 he British Caribbean through a case study of the West Indies Federation.Th
 e Higher Research Seminar is the Department’s main research seminar seri
 es. Researchers from the Department\, alongside leading national and inter
 national scholars\, present and discuss ongoing research and analysis on a
  wide range of timely and thought-provoking topics relevant to Political S
 cience.The seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367\, unle
 ss otherwise indicated. PhD mid-term seminars&nbsp\;13:15 to 14:45Convenor
 s:&nbsp\;Ian Manners and Anders UhlinThe seminars are open to the public. 
 Welcome to join us!The Higher Research Seminar | Department of Political S
 cience\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/cale
 ndar/higher-research-seminar-sarai-anne-ikenze-ted-svensson-agustin-goenag
 a-lund-university-imperial
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LOCATION:Large conference room\, Eden 367.
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