全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w23606
来源ID	Working Paper 23606
	How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act
	Charles Angelucci; Simone Meraglia; Nico Voigtländer
发表日期	2017-07-24
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	We study the emergence of urban self-governance during the Commercial Revolution in the 12th- 13th century and show that municipal autonomy shaped national institutions over the subsequent centuries. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and build a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 Medieval towns (boroughs). We show that merchant towns were particularly likely to obtain Farm Grants – the right of self-governed tax collection and law enforcement. We present evidence that self-governance, in turn, fostered enfranchisement: Farm Grant towns were much more likely to be summoned directly to the Medieval English Parliament than otherwise similar towns. We also show that self-governed towns strengthened the role of Parliament: They resisted royal attempts to introduce patronage and maintained broader voting rights; they also raised troops to back Parliament against the king during the Civil War in 1642, and they supported the modernization of Parliament during the Great Reform Act of 1832. Finally, we compare England’s institutional path to Continental Europe and discuss the conditions under which urban self-governance fosters institutional development at a higher level.
主题	Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; History ; Other History ; Other ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w23606
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581280
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Charles Angelucci,Simone Meraglia,Nico Voigtländer. How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act. 2017.