When States Count: Institutional Conflicts and the Rise of the Global Census Regime, 1842-1995

Poltical and institutional sociologies point to challenges in the study of how "global" spaces and regimes get organized. This book use the historical case of the emergence of modern population censuses to investigate three mechanisms by which "global" processes supplant and redefine policy at the nation-state level. The empirical sections focus on the European experience through the late 19th century, then report evidence from longitudinal studies of census development world-wide. This manuscript is under review at University Presses