Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Model of Credible Commitment under Representative Government
- 3 Historical Background: Sovereign Borrowing in Europe before 1688
- 4 Trends in French and British Sovereign Borrowing, 1689–1789
- 5 Partisan Politics and Public Debt in Great Britain, 1689–1742
- 6 Partisan Politics and Public Debt in France, 1689–1789
- 7 Stability of Representative Institutions in France and Great Britain
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Reference
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Model of Credible Commitment under Representative Government
- 3 Historical Background: Sovereign Borrowing in Europe before 1688
- 4 Trends in French and British Sovereign Borrowing, 1689–1789
- 5 Partisan Politics and Public Debt in Great Britain, 1689–1742
- 6 Partisan Politics and Public Debt in France, 1689–1789
- 7 Stability of Representative Institutions in France and Great Britain
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Reference
- Index
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- Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic StateFrance and Great Britain 1688–1789, pp. 207 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003