The Evolution of a Nation : : How Geography and Law Shaped the American States / / Karen B. Clay, Daniel Berkowitz.
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this b...
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Berkowitz, Daniel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Evolution of a Nation : How Geography and Law Shaped the American States / Karen B. Clay, Daniel Berkowitz. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2012 1 online resource (240 p.) : 58 line illus. 48 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 37 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Legal Initial Conditions -- 3. Initial Conditions and State Political Competition -- 4. The Mechanism -- 5. State Courts -- 6. Legislatures and Courts -- 7. Institutions and Outcomes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions--such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems--impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth. The book shows how a state's geography and climate influenced whether elites based their wealth in agriculture or trade. States with more occupationally diverse elites in 1860 had greater levels of political competition in their legislature from 1866 to 2000. The book also examines the effects of early legal systems. Because of their colonial history, thirteen states had an operational civil-law legal system prior to statehood. All of these states except Louisiana would later adopt common law. By the late eighteenth century, the two legal systems differed in their balances of power. In civil-law systems, judiciaries were subordinate to legislatures, whereas in common-law systems, the two were more equal. Former civil-law states and common-law states exhibit persistent differences in the structure of their courts, the retention of judges, and judicial budgets. Moreover, changes in court structures, retention procedures, and budgets occur under very different conditions in civil-law and common-law states. The Evolution of a Nation illustrates how initial geographical and historical conditions can determine the evolution of political and legal institutions and long-run growth. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Law United States States History. State governments United States History. U.S. states Economic conditions. U.S. states Politics and government. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. bisacsh American states. U.S. states. agriculture. balance of power. civil law. colonial legal systems. common law. court operation. courts. democracy. economic activity. economic development. economic growth. economic outcomes. elite occupations. future research. initial state conditions. judges. judicial budgets. judicial independence. judicial institutions. legal history. legal initial conditions. legal institutions. legal systems. legislatures. occupational distributions. occupational homogeneity. political competition. political history. political institutions. political parties. settlement history. social outcomes. state budgets. state courts. state economy. state elites. state high court. state high courts. state institutions. state legislature. state legislatures. state per capita income. state political competition. trade. Clay, Karen B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691136042 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840540?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840540 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840540.jpg |
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