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Committee: Jason Wittneberg (Chair), Ruth Collier, Sean Gailmard, Victoria Frede-Montemayor
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Non-Democratic Origins of Local Self-Government
Chapter 2: The Origins and Consequences of the Russian Zemstvo
Chapter 3: Comparative Local Institutions in the Ottoman Empire and Qing Dynasty
Chapter 4: Global Evidence on Local Taxation and Representation (1800-1918)
Chapter 5: Conclusions for Democracy, Decentralization, and State-Building
Archival Data Collection
Governor’s Reports (Губернаторские Отчеты) of the Russian Empire
Российский Государственный Исторический Архив (РГИА), Электронная библиотека (ГПИБ), Архив Министерство Финансов Российской Федерации (МинФин), Электронная Библиотека Научное Наследие России (ННР), Пермская Электронная Библиотека (ПЕБ)
Provincial Yearbooks (Vilayeti Salnamesi) of the Ottoman Empire
Provincial Reports (Zhengzhi Guanbao) of the Qing Dynasty
Original Data Collection
Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 25:303-321 (Volume publication date May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-010103
A theoretically informed review of Boucoyannis (Kings as Judges, 2021), Mazzuca (Latecomer State Formation, 2021), and Stasavage (The Decline and Rise of Democracy, 2020).
MA Thesis (University of California, Berkeley)
MA Thesis (European University at St. Petersburg)
BA Honors Thesis (University of Pennsylvania)