Many scholars have argued that British colonial rule promoted post-independence democracy, but there has been considerable debate over the robustness of this result and its causes. We show that this relationship follows a strong temporal pattern. Although former British colonies were considerably more democratic than other countries immediately following independence, subsequent convergence in ...

The literature on British economic history presumes that Britain was a free trader after the repeal of the Corn Laws and that her tariff levels were thus below those which were optimal for maximizing utility. Presumably, if the optimal British tariff had been positive and greater than the levels established by mid-century, a reduction to zero of all tariffs that remained would have lowered Brit...

OF THESIS The preface and introduction, describe the method of study and discuss the general scope and outline of the thesis. The objective of the thesis is to provide a comparison of forest policy and forest management practices in Scotland and British Columbia. The first part of the thesis aims at providing a background to the comparison by recounting, in summarised form, the forest histories...