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No Utopia: Government Without Territorial Monopoly in Medieval Central Europe

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Oliver Volckart

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The paper examines the questions of how nonterritorial feudal governments in medieval central Europe emerged and what their tasks were, of how competition between these governments functioned, and of what consequences it had. The analysis leads to three hypotheses: (1) governmental nonterritoriality was mainly due to high monitoring costs, (2) intergovernmental competition entailed a high demand both for labor and for military security, and (3) competition had consequences that themselves undermined its viability and allowed governments with territorial monopolies to emerge. The paper shows furthermore why it is impossible under modern conditions to establish nonterritorial governments.

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Article provided by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen in its journal Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Volume (Year): 158 (2002)
Issue (Month): 2 (June)
Pages: 325-
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H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
N4 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, and Regulation

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  1. Giampaolo Garzarelli, 2005. "Old and New Theories of Fiscal Federalism, Organizational Design Problems, and Tiebout," Public Economics 0509009, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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