Ponty’s centralization responded to an inspection mission’s cost-efficiency criticisms.
Evidence
One of Panty’s first acts as governor general was to reorganize the various bureaus of the federal administration, in such a way as to give himself the preeminent say in native policy decisions that had previously been made by individual governors. … Between I907 and I908, an important mission of inspec- tion in West Africa, under the direction of Inspector Guyho, had crit- icized as expensive and inefficient the hierarchy of services Roume created in I905. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 375
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships