Historical Representative Assembly Experiences and Constitutionalism Today

Jamie Bologna Pavlik () and Andrew T. Young ()
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Jamie Bologna Pavlik: Texas Tech University
Andrew T. Young: Texas Tech University

Comparative Economic Studies, 2023, vol. 65, issue 4, No 3, 665-680

Abstract: Abstract Successful constitutionalism is characterized by de jure Constitutional provisions de facto binding political agents. A growing literature seeks to quantify cross-country variation in Constitutional compliance and explore its determinants (e.g., Law and Versteeg in Calif Law Rev 101(C):863–952, 2013; Gutmann et al. in University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics Working Paper 2022 No. 57, 2022; Voigt in Int J Const Law 19(5):1778–1809, 2021). We explore long-institutional memories of representative assemblies as a determinant. We employ Bologna Pavlik and Young’s (Econ Gov 21(2):133–186, 2020, South Econ J 88(1):414–448, 2021) measure of medieval/Early Modern assembly experiences. Assembly experiences are positively associated with Constitutional compliance. However, breaking them down into tax veto and spending prerogative experiences, the former is positively related to compliance; the latter is negatively related.

Keywords: Constitutional economics; Constitutionalism; Representative assemblies; Medieval and early modern; Limited government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 N40 P00 P16 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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