Quebec and the Irish Catholic Relief Act of 1778

An Institutional Approach

Bibliographic Data

ID4879437
AuthorsKaren Stanbridge (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume16
Issue3
Pages375-404
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-6443.00212
OpenAlexW1531972166
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited38

The following attempts to clarify the origins and character of the "movement" toward Catholic emancipation in the British empire by examining the negotiation of two early relief measures, the Quebec Act (1774) and the Irish Catholic Relief Act (1778), from an institutional perspective. It explores how institutions structuring Anglo-Quebec and Anglo-Irish political relations affected policy outcomes in each case, and what influence the Quebec case had on the Irish act four years later. While the Quebec Act offered a response to the Catholic question that was to assist supporters of the Irish bill, both were hard won against the inertia of institutional precedent. Neither act was accompanied by indications that greater freedoms were forthcoming. An institutional analysis thus challenges leading approaches that can represent the "movement" toward Catholic emancipation as more spontaneous and less contested than is sustained by actual events

Character (mathematics · Emancipation · Irish · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · European Political History Analysis · Law · Public Administration

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