Kimberly Renk

@kimberlyrenk.bsky.social

Political Science PhD Candidate at UCSD | Latin America, Historical Political Economy, State Building

What drives political centralization and state development?   In a new article accepted in the AJPS, Emily Sellars and I focus on the role of fiscal legibility: the ability of central authorities to observe conditions in the periphery.   A short polisky summary: 1/

Abstract for the article "Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico".