THE PARLIAMENTS OF EUROPE AND THE AGE OF THE ESTATES<sup>1</sup>

Myers, A. R.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-229x.1975.tb02026.x

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“…By the end of the 15th century, at least 25 national and provisional assemblies operated in the main principalities of Europe (e.g. Myers 1975; Herb 2003; Stasavage 2020).…”

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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged

Mokyr,

Tabellini

2023

Economica

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This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn of the first millennium AD. State institutions interacted with these organizations, and were shaped and influenced by this interaction. The paper discusses the many ways in which corporate organizations contributed to the emergence of representative institutions and gave prominence to the Rule of Law in the early stages of state formation in Europe, and how specific features of lineage organizations contributed to the consolidation of the Imperial regime in China.

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“…By the end of the 15th century, at least 25 national and provisional assemblies operated in the main principalities of Europe (e.g. Myers 1975; Herb 2003; Stasavage 2020).…”

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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged

Mokyr,

Tabellini

2023

Economica

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“…James's support for the Episcopal clergy, from a parliamentary point of view, had a straightforward justification: no bishops, less king. Unlike, say, the parliaments of England, Hungary and Poland, Scotland's Parliament was unicameral (single chamber), but like many European assemblies it was a gathering of estates (Rait 1924;Bonney 1991;Myers 1975). The Scottish Parliament consisted of three or four estates: clerics appointed by the Crown (absent from 1638 to 1660 and after 1689); nobles who attended by right; representatives of royal burghs, elected by their respective town councils, and representatives of the shires elected from the barons or lesser landowners.…”

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Parliaments, Princes, and Presses: Voices of Tradition and Protest in Early Modern Scotland

Mann¹

2002

Sites of Discourse – Public and Private Spheres – Legal Culture

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Early modern European society was, in an age before modern communications and transport, a traditionally more private world where the political public sphere was dominated by small elites, many of whom were not strongly connected to the lives of ordinary folk, other than those in their immediate locality. Centres of power and networks of vertical interaction, in Scotland and elsewhere, were often highly localised as mercantile and landed elites interacted with retainers and tenants.

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