Deborah Boucoyannis

Kings as Judges (eBook, PDF)

Power, Justice, and the Origins of Parliaments

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Produktbeschreibung

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political organization and collective action that has proved so durable and influential? The answer has typically been sought either in the realm of ideas, in the Western tradition of individual rights, or in material change, especially the complex interaction of war, taxes, and economic growth. Common to these strands is the belief that representation resulted from weak ruling powers needing to concede rights to powerful social groups. Boucoyannis argues instead that representative institutions were a product of state strength, specifically the capacity to deliver justice across social groups. Enduring and inclusive representative parliaments formed when rulers could exercise power over the most powerful actors in the land and compel them to serve and, especially, to tax them. The language of rights deemed distinctive to the West emerged in response to more effectively imposed collective obligations, especially on those with most power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316730041
• Artikelnr.: 66231597

Autorenporträt

Deborah Boucoyannis teaches Comparative Politics at George Washington University. This book is based on a dissertation that received the American Political Science Association's Ernst Haas Best Dissertation Award in European Politics and the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Comparative Research. She has published in Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Society, and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. The origins of Representative Institutions: Power
Land
and Courts: 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of institutional emergence: regularity
functional fusion
and the origins of parliament; 3. Explaining institutional layering and functional fusion: the role of power; Part II. Origins of Representative Rractice: Power
Obligation
and Taxation: 4. Taxation and representative practice: bargaining vs compellence; 5. Variations in representative practice: 'absolutist' France and Castile; 6. No taxation of elites
no representative institutions; Part III. Trade
Towns
and the Political Economy of Representation: 7. Courts
institutions
and cities: Low Countries and Italy; 8. Courts
institutions
and territory: Catalonia; 9. The endogeneity of trade: the English wool trade and the Castilian mesta; Part IV. Land
Conditionality
and Property Rights: 10. Power
land
and second-best constitutionalism: Central and Northern Europe; 11. Conditional land law
property rights
and 'Sultanism': premodern English and Ottoman land regimes; 12. Land
tenure
and assemblies: Russia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Part V. Why Representation in the West: Petitions
Collective Responsibility
and Supra-Local Organization: 13. Petitions
collective responsibility
and representative practice: England
Russia
and the Ottoman Empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.