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

由于州政府可以在国家发展中发挥重要作用，而且大多数第三世界国家都是在殖民主义时期创建的，殖民国家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各种形式发生，其对后殖民发展的影响可能因情况而异。例如，在英国殖民地中，有些被允许直接统治，有些只能间接统治。这个项目考察了英国殖民地的法律统治形式对后来的经济发展、社会福利国家和民主政治的影响。调查员收集并分析了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。调查人员还收集和分析肯尼亚、塞拉利昂、毛里求斯和博茨瓦纳的殖民文件，以进一步探索与定性数据的关系。

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.