The Central State, Elites, and Local Representative Institutions: Evidence from Ancien Régime France

• In Event: This Land is Your Land: State Capacity and Distributive Politics

Brief Overview

This paper investigates the impact of local representative institutions when the central state is weak and non-democratic, in the context of Ancien Régime France. I use the 1789 Estates General grievances to measure satisfaction with government.

Author

• Anne Degrave, New York University