...David Stasavage All countries with democratic institutions today have been influenced by historical political developments in Western Europe. The process through which parliamentary institutions first emerged in the thirteenth century and then gradually evolved into something resembling modern...

... the apportionment failure in the 1920s. I argue that a series of electoral reforms combined with institutional changes inside Congress to increase the value of a House seat to incumbent members and made retention of a seat more dependent on the actions of individual incumbent members. I demonstrate that members...

... conference, the Lund South East Asia conference, the Montevideo RIDGE Economic History Workshop, and the USC Bedrosian Center Political Economy of Empire Symposium. © 2022 L. A. Abad and N. Maurer 2022 L. A. Abad and N. Maurer Licensed re-use rights only Property rights empire institutions...

...Ken Ochieng’ Opalo A large literature investigates the institutional legacies of European colonialism around the world. However, in linking contemporary outcomes to colonial antecedents, most works seldom identify specific institutions or their temporal evolution. This article examines...

... argue that those who employ historical arguments, especially about the role of institutions and their long-term effects, must engage more actively with the findings of historians. Failing to incorporate historical research leads to models that mischaracterize the constraint structure faced...

... to recognize institutional change (“anti-persistence”), vague mechanisms, the insufficient use (or misuse) of historical sources and narratives, the compression of history, and a failure to account for the effects of geography. We suggest that the current enthusiasm for persistence studies risks pushing out...