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Social organizations and political institutions

Why China and Europe diverged

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ID9724256
AutoresJoel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Guido Tabellini (0000-0002-2272-4638, Bocconi University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume91
Fascículo362
Páginas347-382
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ecca.12508
OpenAlexW4390267229
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas78

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn of the first millennium AD. State institutions interacted with these organizations, and were shaped and influenced by this interaction. The paper discusses the many ways in which corporate organizations contributed to the emergence of representative institutions and gave prominence to the Rule of Law in the early stages of state formation in Europe, and how specific features of lineage organizations contributed to the consolidation of the Imperial regime in China

China · Clan · Consolidation (business) · Corporatism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions

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Intervalo de citações2026 - 2026 (1)
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