The expansion of Europe: Vienna 1857

Randeraad, Nico

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“…Among states that had not introduced any of these things until the middle of the 19th century or later, however, the gaps are smaller: Those states often did all of these things at once. It seems likely that the intensification of collaboration among statisticians and administrators in the middle of the 19th century contributed to this development (Randeraad, 2010): over time, it became the norm among states to have both censuses and statistical agencies.…”

Section: Information Capacity Since the French Revolutionmentioning

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The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State

Brambor

Goenaga

Lindvall

et al. 2019

Comparative Political Studies

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This article presents new evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about themselves, their territories, and their populations. We compile data on five institutions and policies: the regular implementation of a reliable census, the regular release of statistical yearbooks, the introduction of civil and population registers, and the establishment of a government agency tasked with processing statistical information. Using item response theory methods, we generate an index of “information capacity” for 85 states from 1789 to the present. We then ask how political regime changes have influenced the development of information capacity over time. In contrast with the literature on democracy and fiscal capacity, we find that suffrage expansions are associated with higher information capacity, but increases in the level of political competition are not. These findings demonstrate the value of our new measure, because they suggest that different elements of state capacity are shaped by different historical processes.

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Section: Information Capacity Since the French Revolutionmentioning

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The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State

Brambor

Goenaga

Lindvall

et al. 2019

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Im weltpolitischen Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts diente die Statistik als zwischenstaatliche Konvention zur wechselseitigen Beobachtung und (Ver‑)Messung (Speich Chassé 2020 ), wie dies auf den internationalen statistischen Kongressen (1853–1876) und ab 1885 im Rahmen des International Statistical Institute diskutiert wurde (Brian 1989 ; Randeraad 2010 ). Im Zusammenhang mit dem internationalen Wettbewerb um Territorien und ihre ökonomischen Ressourcen waren Statistiken eine gemeinsame Sprache, die es ermöglichte, Empires zu vergleichen (dazu auch Steinmetz 2021 ).…”

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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)

Renard

2021

Köln Z Soziol

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ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen. Ziel ist, den Blick für Methoden und Kategorien der statistischen Praxis im imperialen Kontext zu schärfen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der statistischen Beobachtung der Kolonien eine territoriale Grundunterscheidung zwischen Metropole und Kolonien zugrunde lag, die in unterschiedlichen Methoden mündete. Diese territoriale und methodologische Spaltung war mit einer grundsätzlichen Unvergleichbarkeit zwischen kolonisierter Bevölkerung und Kolonisierenden gekoppelt, so die These des Beitrags.

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“…The information gathered through these records generated periodical reports that could be used for interpreting historical trends and geographical comparisons (Porter, 1995; Stigler, 1999). Despite their different purposes, the ultimate goal was that of informing policies based on quantitative and supposedly ‘objective’ data (Randeraad, 2010).…”

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The paper technology of confinement: evolving criteria in admission forms (1850–73)

Sposini

2021

Hist Psychiatry

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This paper investigates the role of admission forms in the regulation of asylum confinement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Taking the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as a case study it traces the evolution of the forms’ content and structure during the first decades of this institution. Admission forms provide important material for understanding the medico-legal assessment of lunacy in a certain jurisdiction. First, they show how the description of insanity depended on a plurality of actors. Second, doctors were not necessarily required to indicate symptoms of derangement. Third, patients’ relatives played a fundamental role in providing clinical information. From an historiographical perspective, this paper invites scholars to consider the function of standardized documents in shaping the written identity of patients.

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The expansion of Europe: Vienna 1857

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The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State

The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State

Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)

The paper technology of confinement: evolving criteria in admission forms (1850–73)

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