Participative political institutions and city development 800-1800

Fabian Wahl

No 02-2015, Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences from University of Hohenheim, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutions as well as of the individual PPIs is tested empirically. When pooled over all periods and observations, there seems to be a significant positive overall effect of PPIs in the German-speaking area but not in the Low Countries. The study founds considerable spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the effect of PPIs. Furthermore, the effect of different types of PPIs differs substantially and in general seems to be short-lived. That is, the results show that the positive initial effect of some PPIs declined the longer they existed and over time.

Keywords: Medieval Period; Early-Modern Period; Central Europe; City Development; Political Institutions; Early Democracy; Guilds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H11 N44 N94 O10 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gro, nep-his, nep-pol and nep-soc
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