Parliament Strikes Back: Agenda-setting and Power Voids in Stuart England

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of State Building

Brief Overview

In this article we contend that elites in early representative assemblies used periods of power uncertainty to set the political agenda. We empirically examine this mechanism on the seventeenth century England.

Authors

• Tom Paskhalis, New York University

• Toni Rodon, Pompeu Fabra University