Martin Hall
PhD | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer
The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden
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Summary, in English
In the empirical part of this thesis I use insights from the study of regime formation in modern oil states to guide my analysis of autocratic rule in early modern Sweden, a case that does not seem to fit existing theories of European political development. Most importantly, I find that rulers such as Gustav I (r. 1523-1560) and Karl XI (r. 1672-1697) would have been hard-pressed to set up autocratic regimes had they not been able to expand their royal domains and rule more as ‘landowner kings’ than ‘taxation kings.’
The main contributions of this dissertation are that (i) it develops our conceptual understanding of non-tax revenue; (ii) it explains why and how access to such revenue influences political arrangements; and (iii) it provides a novel explanation for regime formation in early modern Sweden.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Political Studies
Issue
184
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- revenue
- autocracy
- regime change
- fiscal sociology
- public finance
- state-building
- Sweden
- Early Modern Europe
- Rentier State
- royal power
- statsinkomster
- statsstyre
- politisk utveckling
- Rentier State
- Rentierism
- skattesystem
- tidigmodern statsbildning
- Sverige
- europeisk historia
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Martin Hall
- Jan Teorell
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0460-0037
- ISBN: 978-91-7753-156-2
- ISBN: 978-91-7753-155-5
Defence date
10 February 2017
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Edens hörsal (auditorium), Paradisgatan 5H, Lund
Opponent
- Jørgen Møller (Professor)