What factors led to the different political paths taken by England and France in the 17th century?

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History Lessons: Institutions, Factors Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World

The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 2000)

, pp. 217-232 (16 pages)

Published By: American Economic Association

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2646928

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Theoretical work on taxation and state-building borrows heavily from early modern European experience. While a number of European states increased centralized tax revenues during this period, for others revenues stagnated or even declined and these variations have motivated alternative arguments for the determinants of fiscal and state capacity. This study reviews the arguments concerning the three determinants that have received most attention, namely warfare, economic structure, and political regime, and tests them by making use of a new and comprehensive tax revenue dataset. Our main finding is that these three determinants worked in interaction with each other. Specifically, when under pressure of war, it was representative regimes in more urbanized-commercial economies and authoritarian regimes in more rural-agrarian economies that tended to better aggregate domestic interests towards state-building.

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The American Political Science Review (APSR) is the longest running publication of the American Political Science Association (APSA). APSR, first published in November 1906 and appearing quarterly, is the preeminent political science journal in the United States and internationally. APSR features research from all fields of political science and contains an extensive book review section of the discipline. In its earlier days, APSR also covered the personal and personnel items of the profession as had its predecessor, the Proceedings of the APSA.

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In what ways did governments become involved in the sciences during the seventeenth century?

In what ways did governments become involved in the sciences during the seventeenth century? They saw science as a means to enhance their prestige and invested monetary and social resources in scientific research.

Why did absolutism succeed in France?

Absolutism succeeded in France because the monarch was extremely powerful and had the support of the Catholic Church. English absolutism began with James I who took the English throne after Elizabeth's death. Although he was raised in a conservative Scotland, James had his own ideas of how he wanted to rule.

Which of the following action brought the Age of absolutism to an end in England?

A fews years later, in 1689, James and absolutism was finally defeated in the "Glorious Revolution." After sixty years of conflict, constitutionalism finally established itself both in theory and in political reality in Britain, setting the English-speaking world on a different political path from the rest of Europe.

Was there absolutism in England?

Early Absolutism could be found in several corners of Europe in 1500 in France, England, and other states. During the period from 1660 to 1789, Absolutism was most successful in France.