Thursday, November 19 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Room 219 (2nd Floor)

Session 1
Law, Authority, and Administrative Rationalization

Chair: Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University

1. Individual Liberty and State Effectiveness in Industrializing Britain: The Role of War, Politics, and Law • Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University; Peter Murrell, University of Maryland.

2. Varieties of Patronage: Second-Order Colonial Legacies and Public Expenditure in Independent Morocco • Benjamin Kaplow, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

3. Re-Imagining Ontology of State Causality: The Case of Vasectomy State in India (1975-77) • Sourabh Singh, Florida State University.

4. Administrative Modernity beyond Europe: State Rationalization and Legal Ordering in Egypt, 1800–1950 • Mohamed Sobhy, Zagazig University.

5. What Is a State for? Rethinking the Distinction between Symbolic Power and Authority • Vasfiye Betul Toprak, University of Maryland-College Park.

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