Replication Data for: Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Two important puzzles characterize the development of pre-modern Eurasian polities. First, most rulers convened councils of nobles, but only European monarchs expanded them to create parliaments. Second, war was common throughout Eurasia, but only in Europe did it correlate with the formation of parliaments. We advance a new argument about the emergence of parliaments that accounts for both stylized facts, while integrating the literature highlighting the rulers’ need to finance wars with that emphasizing the importance of the medieval communal revolution. Using novel data, we document a “no communes, no parliaments” rule: monarchs established parliaments only after they had fostered the creation of self-governing towns (aka communes). We also show that war was a significant predictor of parliamentary births across medieval Europe – but' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Political Development","Political Representation","State-Making","War"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Two important puzzles characterize the development of pre-modern Eurasian polities. First, most rulers convened councils of nobles, but only European monarchs expanded them to create parliaments. Second, war was common throughout Eurasia, but only in Europe did it correlate with the formation of parliaments. We advance a new argument about the emergence of parliaments that accounts for both stylized facts, while integrating the literature highlighting the rulers’ need to finance wars with that emphasizing the importance of the medieval communal revolution. Using novel data, we document a “no communes, no parliaments” rule: monarchs established parliaments only after they had fostered the creation of self-governing towns (aka communes). We also show that war was a significant predictor of parliamentary births across medieval Europe – but' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Two important puzzles characterize the development of pre-modern Eurasian polities. First, most rulers convened councils of nobles, but only European monarchs expanded them to create parliaments. Second, war was common throughout Eurasia, but only in Europe did it correlate with the formation of parliaments. We advance a new argument about the emergence of parliaments that accounts for both stylized facts, while integrating the literature highlighting the rulers’ need to finance wars with that emphasizing the importance of the medieval communal revolution. Using novel data, we document a “no communes, no parliaments” rule: monarchs established parliaments only after they had fostered the creation of self-governing towns (aka communes). We also show that war was a significant predictor of parliamentary births across medieval Europe – but
Political Development; Political Representation; State-Making; War