Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England's Constitutional Governance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stanford University; Chapman University System; Chapman University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050724000366
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 655-689
• 关键词: institutions

摘要

This paper highlights the importance of endogenous changes in the foundations of legitimacy for political regimes. It focuses on the central role of legitimacy changes in the rise of constitutional monarchy in England. It first defines legitimacy and briefly elaborates a theoretical framework enabling a historical study of this unobservable variable. It proceeds to substantiate that the low-legitimacy, post- Reformation Tudor monarchs promoted Parliament to enhance their legitimacy, thereby changing the legislative process from the crown and Parliament to the crown in Parliament that still prevails in England. The break with Rome permanently altered England's political development.