DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Colonial Law and Postcolonial Development: A Comparative Study of the Effects of British Colonial Legacies on National Development

博士论文研究：殖民法与后殖民发展：英国殖民遗产对国家发展影响的比较研究

• 批准号: 0117514
• 负责人: Dietrich Rueschemeyer
• 金额: $ 0.67万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0117514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Colonial; Law

Because state governments can play an important role in national development, and most Third World states were created during colonialism, colonial state legacies likely shape post-colonial development in the modern Third World. Moreover, because colonial rule occurred in diverse forms throughout the world, its effects on post-colonial development likely vary from case to case. For example, among the British colonies, some were allowed direct rule and some only indirect rule. This project examines the effects in British colonies of the form of legal domination on later development of the economy, social welfare state, and democratic polity. The investigator collects and analyzes quantitative data on these relationships for all former British colonies still under British domination in 1955. The investigator also collects and analyzes colonial documents in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Mauritius, and Botswana to further explore the relationships with qualitative data.

由于国家政府在国家发展中扮演着重要角色，而大多数第三世界国家都是在殖民主义时期建立的，因此殖民国家的遗产可能会塑造现代第三世界的后殖民发展。 此外，由于殖民统治在世界各地以不同的形式出现，其对殖民后发展的影响可能因情况而异。 例如，在英国的殖民地中，有些被允许直接统治，有些只允许间接统治。 这个项目考察了英国殖民地的法律的统治形式对后来经济发展、社会福利国家和民主政体的影响。 调查员收集和分析了1955年仍在英国统治下的所有前英国殖民地的这些关系的定量数据。 调查员还收集和分析了肯尼亚，塞拉利昂，毛里求斯和博茨瓦纳的殖民文献，以进一步探索与定性数据的关系。