Royal Consultants: Personnel Modernization and Bureaucratic Transition in Pre-modern Europe*

• In Event: The Political Economy of Modernization and Welfare Provision

Brief Overview

This paper describes how pre-modern states tried to build modern bureaucracy by drawing on early-modern France. Based on a new dataset on governorship from 1640-1789, I show how royally-appointed governors undercut the system by creating patronage.

Author

• Yu Sasaki, Kanazawa University