The Parliaments of Early Modern Europe

Graves, Mike

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“…One traditional explanation for the formation of parliaments highlights the need of medieval European rulers to finance wars (for example, Dhondt 1950;Finer 1997;Graves 2001;Sidgwick 1903;Tilly 1994). According to Finer (1997, 1,026), the 'one perennial, common factor' in the emergence of parliaments was that 'kings and princes wanted to make war'.…”

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Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament

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Dincecco

Onorato

2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Two important puzzles characterize the development of pre-modern Eurasian polities. First, most rulers convened councils of nobles, but only European monarchs expanded them to create parliaments. Second, war was common throughout Eurasia, but only in Europe did it correlate with the formation of parliaments. We advance a new argument about the emergence of parliaments that accounts for both stylized facts while integrating the literature highlighting the rulers' need to finance wars with that emphasizing the importance of the medieval communal revolution. Using novel data, we document a ‘no communes, no parliaments’ rule: monarchs established parliaments only after they had fostered the creation of self-governing towns (aka communes). We also show that war was a significant predictor of parliamentary births across medieval Europe – but only during a window of opportunity that opened after a polity had experienced the communal revolution.

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Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament

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2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…10-11), and has recently expanded his Western-European focus to include countries in Eastern Europe (Hébert, 2018). 1 Michael Graves's brief introductory survey of early modern 'parliaments' in different European countries offers a useful foundation for considering the sweeping changes to, and divergent political paths of, parliamentary power in this period (Graves, 2001). But these remain virtually the only studies of this kind.…”

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Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

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In this essay, we call for a new approach to representative assemblies of early modern Europe and beyond. While there are vast national historiographies on their legal constitutional structure, little effort has been made to reconstruct the cultural and transnational dimension of such bodies, a phenomenon we describe as 'parliamentary culture'. We argue that there is much to be gained from an investigation of the culture surrounding these bodies-how they influenced and shaped political behaviour and were shaped by it, and how they were embedded into the thought of their time and period-and from seeing them as part of a set of common European traditions of political negotiation and consent. We suggest an interdisciplinary and collaborative agenda for that investigation that might lead beyond Europe too, into some of its colonies, where Europeans also encountered other traditions of negotiated discussion and agreement.

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“… 9 The discussion relies on the rich scholarship on the topic among which are Barzel, and Kiser (1997), Bisson (1966), Graves (2001), Herb (2003), Hoffman and Norberg (2001), Myers (1975), and van Zanden et al . (2012).…”

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Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond

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Mokyr

2016

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Douglass North's writing on institutional change recognized from the very start that such change depends on cognition and beliefs. Yet, although he focused on individual beliefs, we argue in this paper that such beliefs are social constructs. We suggest that institutions – rules, expectations, and norms – are based on shared cognitive rules. Cognitive rules are social constructs that convey information that distills and summarizes society's beliefs and experience. These rules have to be self-enforcing and self-confirming, but they do not have to be ‘correct’. We describe the characteristics of such rules in the context of a market for ideas, and illustrate their importance in two developments central to the growth of modern economies: the rise of the modern state with its legitimacy based on consent, and the rise of modern science-based technology that was the product of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment.

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The Parliaments of Early Modern Europe

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Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament

Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament

Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond

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