TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolga Demiryol
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631896563
TI  - Economic Crisis, Elite Conflict and Institutional Change in Empires
DO  - 10.3726/b20538
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1303867
N2  - The Ottoman and Habsburg Empires both faced the "general crisis" of the 17th century. Yet they responded to the crisis very differently. The Habsburgs centralized fiscal structures, which would facilitate economic development in the 19th century. The Ottomans, which initially had more centralized tax collection, opted for decentralization, paving the way for economic peripheralization. To account for this puzzle, this book offers a political-economic theory of institutional change that focuses on the structure and intensity of elite conflict over the distribution of resources. Using the comparative-historical method, the book demonstrates that high levels of conflict generated political incentives for centralization, and where such incentives were lacking, decentralization followed.
KW  - Case studies, Concept of crisis, Multidisciplinary standpoint
LA  - English
ER  -