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Political Science

Valentín Figueroa

Valentin Figueroa
The Protestant Road to Bureaucracy
2021 Dissertation Fellowship

Valentin's research examines the processes behind the great political developments of early modern history. In his dissertation, he studies how the Protestant Reformation unleashed a number of processes that in the long-term generated the ideal administrative conditions for rulers to replace proprietary officeholders with professional and salaried bureaucrats.