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On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism

Sammanfattning
The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set for all former colonies and dependencies that are regarded as countries today (143 observations). Our data, as well as existing theory, suggest that the very heterogeneous era of colonization might be divided into an early ’mercantilist’ wave and a much later ’imperialist’ wave with quite different characteristics. We demonstrate that a commonly used determinant of institutional quality - colonial settler mortality - had a much weaker effect on institutional outcomes during the imperialist scramble for Africa. When we broaden the analysis, it is shown that the positive effect of colonial duration on democracy is strongest among countries colonized during the imperialist era. Controlling for colonial duration, our results further indicate that a long history of statehood is bad for democracy while there is almost no effect of the national identity of the colonizer.
Universitet
Göteborg University, School of Business, Economics and Law /Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet
Institution
Department of Economics/ Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/3135
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Datum
2007-03-07
Författare
Olsson, Ola
Nyckelord
colonialism
democracy
institutions
development
settler mortality
JEL N40
JEL N50
JEL P33
Publikationstyp
report
ISSN
1403-2465
Serie/rapportnr.
Working Papers in Economics
247
Språk
eng
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