L'invention de la décentralisation. Noblesse et pouvoirs intermédiates en France et en Europe XVII-XIXe siècles

Legay, Marie‐Laure

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“…6 According to recent research, regional institutions played an important mediating role even in absolute monarchies like France, cooperating with the State during the slow advance of political centralization. 7 In the peripheral regions of composite monarchies like that of Spain they sought, with differing degrees of success, to uphold traditional political autonomy and keep state taxes low. 8 However, the economic policies adopted by regional institutions have remained largely unexplored, even though their effects were sometimes far from local.…”

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State, Representative Institutions and Economic Reforms in Times of Decline: Royal Taxation and Trade Policy in Aragon (1626–1700)

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European History Quarterly

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This article explores fiscal and trade policy in Aragon between 1626 and 1700, providing a case study of economic management by regional institutions in a composite monarchy of the early modern period. The increasing burden and irregular distribution of royal taxation hastened economic decline in seventeenth century Aragon.Eventually, the monarchy moderated its fiscal demands in 1678-97 to alleviate the financial distress of the region's towns and villages and cure the economic ills caused by protectionist trade policies in north-eastern Spain. The Aragonese Parliament only lowered royal subsidies after 1678, though it began to raise import duties as early as 1626 to ease the pressure on heavily indebted municipal treasuries. However, conflicting regional interest groups undermined the Cortes' economic policies, and their main effect was to drive up transaction costs without preventing French control of trade and manufacturing in Aragon in the second half of the seventeenth century. In contrast, the free-trade policies pursued by the Diputación were more consistently applied and enjoyed greater legal and political support, fostering export-led agricultural specialization from which the elites were able to profit, although they failed to deliver long-run economic growth.

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State, Representative Institutions and Economic Reforms in Times of Decline: Royal Taxation and Trade Policy in Aragon (1626–1700)

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L'invention de la décentralisation. Noblesse et pouvoirs intermédiates en France et en Europe XVII-XIXe siècles

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State, Representative Institutions and Economic Reforms in Times of Decline: Royal Taxation and Trade Policy in Aragon (1626–1700)

State, Representative Institutions and Economic Reforms in Times of Decline: Royal Taxation and Trade Policy in Aragon (1626–1700)

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