Crawling towards Weber? Mexican State Capacity in the 19th Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin M. Grier
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The 19Th Century

scholarly journals Early investments in state capacity promote persistently higher levels of social capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (20) ◽  
pp. 10755-10761
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Jensen ◽  
Adam J. Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Early State ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Postal Network ◽  
The 19Th Century

Social capital has been shown to positively influence a multitude of economic, political, and social outcomes. Yet the factors that affect long-run social capital formation remain poorly understood. Recent evidence suggests that early state formation, especially investments in state capacity, are positively associated with higher levels of contemporary social capital and other prosocial attitudes. The channels by which early state capacity leads to greater social capital over time are even less understood. We contribute to both questions using the spatial and temporal expansion of the US postal network during the 19th century. We first show that county-level variation in post office density is highly correlated with a bevy of historical and contemporary indicators of social capital (e.g., associational memberships, civic participation, health, and crime). This finding holds even when controlling for historical measures of development and contemporary measures of income, inequality, poverty, education, and race. Second, we provide evidence of an informational mechanism by which this early investment in infrastructural capacity affected long-run social capital formation. Namely, we demonstrate that the expansion of the postal network in the 19th century strongly predicts the historical and contemporary location of local newspapers, which were the primary mode of impersonal information transmission during this period. Our evidence sheds light on the role of the state in both the origins of social capital and the channels by which it persists. Our findings also suggest that the consequences of the ongoing decline in local newspapers will negatively affect social capital.

scholarly journals Pedro Quesada, del campo de batalla a la burocracia americana: un ejemplo de versatilidad (1784-1833) = Pedro Quesada, from the Battlefield to the American Burocracy: An Example of Versatility (1784-1833)

2017 ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Ana María Parrilla Albuerne ◽  
Jesús Héctor Trejo Huerta
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Ciudad Real ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The 19Th Century

El presente estudio gira en torno a la labor que realizara Pedro Quesada en la Intendencia de Ciudad Real de Chiapa, perteneciente a la Audiencia de Guatemala, durante las últimas décadas del Antiguo Régimen. Aunque su mudanza a suelo guatemalteco fue tardía, a través de relaciones políticas y de paisanaje, logró adaptarse y progresar en el ámbito administrativo chiapaneco durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, la promulgación de la independencia en la región y la adhesión de Chiapas al Estado mexicano. Durante la detentación de los diversos cargos, imbuido en el espíritu de la Ilustración hispánica tan en boga para la época, dio un gran apoyo a las campañas de vacunación, el impulso a la agricultura emergente, la búsqueda experimental de la cura para el mal del pinto y la administración de la imprenta que introdujera la Sociedad de Amigos del País en Chiapas.AbstractThe present study turns around the work that made Pedro Quesada in the Intendencia of Ciudad Real of Chiapa, pertaining to the Audience of Guatemala, during the last decades of the Antiguo Régimen. Although his transfer to Guatemalan floor was late, through political relations and of paisanaje, attained to adapt and progress in the administrative field chiapaneco during the first decades of the 19th century, the promulgation of the independence in the region and the adhesion of Chiapas to the Mexican State. During the possession of the diverse charges, included in the spirit of the Hispanic Illustration so in cattail for the period, gave a big support to the campaigns of vaccination, the impulse to the emergent agriculture, the experimental research of the cure for the evil of the paint and the administration of the printing that entered the Society of Fellow.

scholarly journals State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daron Acemoglu ◽  
Jacob Moscona ◽  
James Robinson
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
The 19Th Century

COURT MARTIAL AND CONTRABAND IN 19TH CENTURY YUCATÁN. THE CASE OF BOAT “FOUR SISTERS”

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Ivan N. Kosichenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The Government ◽  
Judicial Procedures ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Caste War

This article deals with an issue of the court-martial functioning in Mexican state of Yucatán in the middle of the 19th century. The political violence, a very characteristic of the epoch, in Yucatán scaled up with a start of the ethno-social conflict between the government and predominantly Indian population of southeastern part of the state – the Caste War (1847–1901). For the juridical practices the constant political conflicts, domination of the Army and military men in public life meant broad simplification of judicial procedures, often executed by officer corps. One special place for the middle of the 19th century was the fortress of Bacalar, which controlled the border with British dominions in Belize. It was one of the crucial points for importation of contraband into Yucatán peninsula, and if before 1847 it had been mostly civil goods, with the start of the Caste War, Belizean entrepreneurs actively participated in supply of rebels with armament and munitions. They were contrabandists of such kind who were captured on September 13 of 1849 in the border outpost in Chaac upon the Río Hondo.They left behind themselves the “Four Sisters” boat case – the document that shed light not only on the details of simplified court procedures in the 19th century Mexico but also on various details of wartime daily life in that remote fortress.

Grammatical Descriptions in Manchu Grammar Books from the Qing Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Takashi Takekoshi
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The 19Th Century

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.

Immigrant Arab Women in Chile during the Renaissance (Nahda), 1910s-1920s

1970 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Sarah Limorté
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century

Levantine immigration to Chile started during the last quarter of the 19th century. This immigration, almost exclusively male at the outset, changed at the beginning of the 20th century when women started following their fathers, brothers, and husbands to the New World. Defining the role and status of the Arab woman within her community in Chile has never before been tackled in a detailed study. This article attempts to broach the subject by looking at Arabic newspapers published in Chile between 1912 and the end of the 1920s. A thematic analysis of articles dealing with the question of women or written by women, appearing in publications such as Al-Murshid, Asch-Schabibat, Al-Watan, and Oriente, will be discussed.

THE IDEA OF «COMMUNITY» IN THE GOVERNMENT CONCEPTS OF GALICIA OF THE XIX – BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Liubomyr Ilyn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze and systematize the views of social and political thinkers of Galicia in the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. on the right and manner of organizing a nation-state as a cathedral. Method. The methodology includes a set of general scientific, special legal, special historical and philosophical methods of scientific knowledge, as well as the principles of objectivity, historicism, systematic and comprehensive. The problem-chronological approach made it possible to identify the main stages of the evolution of the content of the idea of catholicity in Galicia's legal thought of the 19th century. Results. It is established that the idea of catholicity, which was borrowed from church terminology, during the nineteenth century. acquired clear legal and philosophical features that turned it into an effective principle of achieving state unity and integrity. For the Ukrainian statesmen of the 19th century. the idea of catholicity became fundamental in view of the separation of Ukrainians between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. The idea of unity of Ukrainians of Galicia and the Dnieper region, formulated for the first time by the members of the Russian Trinity, underwent a long evolution and received theoretical reflection in the work of Bachynsky's «Ukraine irredenta». It is established that catholicity should be understood as a legal principle, according to which decisions are made in dialogue, by consensus, and thus able to satisfy the absolute majority of citizens of the state. For Galician Ukrainians, the principle of unity in the nineteenth century. implemented through the prism of «state» and «international» approaches. Scientific novelty. The main stages of formation and development of the idea of catholicity in the views of social and political figures of Halychyna of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries are highlighted in the work. and highlighting the distinctive features of «national statehood» that they promoted and understood as possible in the process of unification of Ukrainian lands into one state. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in further historical and legal studies, preparation of special courses.

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