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- Title
Representative Assemblies in Early Modern European State‐Building: Evidence from Four Experiences.
- Authors
Battegazzorre, Francesco
- Abstract
The article reassesses the role played by parliaments and other representative structures in the European state‐building processes. It points to a need of going beyond the traditional antagonist conception of the relationships between rulers and social forces rooted in comparative historical political science, substituting it with a theory grounded in the concept of political exchange. A preliminary analysis of four cases (Brandenburg‐Prussia, Dutch Republic, Poland, and Sweden) is conducted, with the purpose of singling out the "internal" determinants — that is, institutional properties of the assemblies — that allowed them to integrate into the institutional framework of the states in formation, or that hindered such an integration. These determinants are found to consist in three main factors: organisational centralisation, working autonomy, and a significant interdependence relationship with a distinct and relatively autonomous governmental centre.
- Subjects
PRUSSIA (Germany); BRANDENBURG (Germany); NATION building; STATE formation; SOCIAL forces; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2023, Vol 69, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0004-9522
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ajph.12860